Many of the defining forces of our time — the rise of the digital age, the globalization of the economy, the decline of American competitiveness — can be understood through one simple thing: a...
A movie can have multiple genres.
Which genres are assigned often together to the same movies?
Which genres come mostly alone? Or rarely alone?
How do the movie attributes correlate with their...
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...
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...
The evolution of the DSM has played a leading role in the medicalization of psychiatry, and has consequently sparked controversy. Proponents argue the hyper-specificity of DSM-V has led to more...
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,...
This site provides the most comprehensive snapshot of the UK peer-to-peer lending to date. Using open data from the three biggest P2P platforms we highlight the regional geography of lending. The...
The Startup Universe displays and explores the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (Venture Capitalists) since 1990.
State-by-State is the premier data product from Visual Data, designed to be an online destination for visualizing economic and political data about the United States. Targeted towards business...
Northwestern University in Qatar's new Arab Media Use survey website contains findings from a comprehensive study NU-Q conducted in early 2013 to better understand the media of Qatar and provide a...
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.
This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...
This piece visualizes the details of a survey given to students on the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and examines the differences in answers between genders.
This interactive visualization uses publicly available data on smartphone user behavior. The visualization allows you to observe smartphone penetration throughout the globe, pick a gender, then...
This data visualisation project is a 3-dimensional interactive visualisation showing all depths and heights of the London underground system. The project is created in Unity and C#, using a comma...
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...
365 days of coffee. From grower, to roaster, to you. Visualising the journey of each coffee shipment - from farmer to roaster. Dunne Frankowski, a creative coffee company founded in association...
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...
Everyday, multiple times a day, you make a key choice that will determine your personal carbon footprint. It's not necessarily the car you drive or even the fuel you burn (although these are...
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...
Instead of writing yet another paper, I handed in this visualization for the LERU Bright 2013 Student Conference which will be held in August in Freiburg, Germany. This year's conference topic is...
Hill Mapper is an interactive online map of hilly streets in San Francisco. My goal was to show both the steepness of hills and the direction of their incline, using a design that would be more...
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...
The Brandwatch Eurovision tracker displayed Twitter buzz about the Eurovision Song Contest during the live final on Sat 18th May 2013. It categorised conversation based on the topic of chat,...
The best description of this work is found in a post I wrote here: http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/05/behind-the-banner-a-visualization-of-the-adtech-ecosystem.php