The Consumer Barometer is a global research project Google commenced several years ago, to provide insight into how consumers use online and offline media in their purchase process. Our main goal...
Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) is an algorithmically-generated, audio-annotated, dynamically evolving map of the music genre space. It arrays the 700+ major music genres tracked (so far) by...
Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since 2500 BC. 45,716 have been recorded. Only 1,107 have been seen falling.
BOLIDES is an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that...
The Nature of Overfishing is an interactive Web aquarium that tells the tale of the world's fish populations over the last 100 years. While there was once big "predatory" fish and small "prey" fish...
The British have always been obsessed with Class, and apparently we still are. The BBC's Great British Class Calculator has so far had more than 7 million page views.
The project began when the...
An interactive data visualization produced on behalf of Sport England , the key objective was to show a more visually explorative way of presenting sports participation data alongside external...
In December 2012, Chatham House published a major new report on the changing politics of natural resources. The report, Resources Futures, is the result of two years of research and analysis of 12...
UNSPEAK is a web-based interactive documentary investigating the manipulative power of language, based on the book by Steven Poole and initiated by Submarine, Amsterdam. Short films made by...
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index visualizes a daily ranking of the world's richest people. The index is a dynamic measure of the top 100 billionaires based on changes in markets, the economy and...
The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index is a nationwide poll of American voters detailing what they think should be done about the country's water crisis and who should pay for it.
The key findings of...
A visualization showing ages of buildings in Ljubljana on an interactive map. Accompanied by an animation showing the evolution of the same city between years 1500 and 2013.
SPOILER ALERT! Everybody dies in the end (as they did in Hamlet, as they did in the Titanic.... get over it). This interactive visualization explores the flurry of tweets that occurred after the...
What was the likelihood that Obama would be re-elected? Instead of talking to the pundits, The Economist listened to the data. Specifically, we looked at the president's economic performance in the...
An interactive that combines six separate polls and three sets of betting odds into one visualisation that gives readers an immediate insight into how the political temperature was tracking during...
Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft was on target to become the first man-made object to leave the solar system. We wanted to take users on Voyager's journey past the planets. But we also wanted to give...
Happy hour may possibly be the best hour of your entire day. A chance to unwind a little after a grueling day of work, mingle with co-workers and friends, enjoy some food, and catch a cool buzz....
Interactive visualisation with data from the UN's Human Development Report about well-being and development. The website is designed with the aim of presenting well-being in a visual way through...
The Big Mac Index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their "correct" level, based on the idea of purchasing-power parity. Since then,...
The first part of this visualization is the interactive map: With the green arrows, you can choose a governance indicator and see which countries have te highest or lowest indicator.A country which...
This data driven interactive graphic examines the military and political opposition groups trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The data for the graphic was gathered exclusively by Al...
Through a partnership with InnoCentive, The Economist and Nielsen challenged would-be solvers to generate insightful visualizations from Nielsen's 2012 Global Consumer Confidence survey and the...
Updated automatically every day, a zoomable, interactive mind map showing popular Twitter hashtags and how they are all connected. Drill-down into top tweets and users related to individual tags...
Recently the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms.gov) released a report detailing Medicare Provider Charge Data which shows the cost of procedures or DRGs at various hospitals across...
This piece helped to introduce Boston residents to the 12 candidates vying to replace Mayor Tom Menino, who has held office for two decades. We chose to focus on the geographic base that each...
Urban World helps navigate the unprecedented global wave of urbanization. Users can compare GDP, population and household income for more than 2,600 cities worldwide, in 2010 and in one scenario...
What if we could see a baseball player's offensive stats all at once? These are radar charts, but try to think of them as fingerprints of offensive output.