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...
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...
This handout was used as a summary after our popular 'Choose Impact' event (where David McCandless was a speaker). The event aimed to raise the profile and importance of visualisation within the...
Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...
This TNS UK research document gives an overview of consumer attitudes, concerns and behaviours on food. The team worked hard to turn the potentially dry data into an engaging design through...
This visualization focuses on fictional comic book characters who are adherents of real-world or fictional religions. Also, as an American genre, superheroes comic books closely represent American...
Grevilleas are members of the Protea plant family and are widespread across Australia. Colour palettes of Grevillea flowers were extracted from photographs, and linked to occurrence records sourced...
Tadpoles in each color illustrate movement of one metric on two dimensions. The head of tadpole (arrow) points to the next position while the tail (small dot) indicates where it comes from. A...
Released in April this year, How far is it to Mars? is an Interactive infographic based around one beautifully simple concept: Showing the distance between the Earth and Mars as a long scrolling...
Infogr.am is a popular infographic creator. It enables anyone to make beautiful, interactive data visualizations in just a few minutes. Infogram is used by online media, schools, governments and...
As James Bond marked its 50th anniversary we wanted to find a stylish and fun way to convey some key data about the films. In order to gather our data a number of journalists volunteered to watch...
This infographic explores personal narrative. It is a story of what my parents have in common and how it may have contributed to my existence. Both my mom's and my dad's fathers passed away...
The Pharma Transport town shows the complex routes through which the pharmaceuticals we use every day end up in the environment (and come back to us through food and water). It uses the visual...
A digital poster featuring an original diagram by Julie Mader-Meersman that communicates the breadth and depth of multi-disciplinary graphic design to those beginning and outside its practice. It...
Wikipedia is constantly growing, and it is written by people around the world. To illustrate this, we created a map of recent changes on Wikipedia, which displays the approximate location of...
Doctor Who fans frequenty speculate about the likelihood of recovering episodes from the 1960s that are no longer held in the BBC's archive. In the spring of 2013, one rumour really got fans' hopes...
Meteorites are meteoroids originating in outer space which survive impact with the Earth. From a total of more than 45700 recorded meteorite landings only around 3800 have a mass larger than 1 kg....
On the centenary of the start of the Tour de France cycling race this year, we thought about how we could show how the nationalities of the winners changed over time. We chose to adopt a "pinwheel"...
Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...
This interactive data visualization is a usefull tool to know the cost of living in some cities in France.
We can choose to compare prices of groceries, housing or fun and shopping with the three...
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...
If the world were a village of 100 people, what would its composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications.
Follow Norm through an interactive life of risk and discover the real statistics behind everyday risks and dangers.
The website is based on The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers about Danger,...
The Infinite Jukebox is a web app and visualization that creates a never-ending and ever-changing version of any song. The app works by using the The Echo Nest music analyzer to decompose a song...
Jotun, one of the world's leading decorative paint brands, explores the color selection process by extracting data about consumers color preferences from Pinterest. This data visualization is the...
Growing up on robots in movies has always got me wondering if there was ever an epic battle then who would win. Obviously size and firepower would be an advantage, but the biggest robots in movies...
One of the leading Dutch websites in marketing, www.marketingfacts.nl, asked me if I could design an infographic to come along with their annual report. 'And oh yeah, it will be online...
Listen to Wikipedia is a visualization and sonification of Wikipedia's live recent changes data. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the...