English has words from all over the world but come from three main sources: Germanic, Old French, and Latin and Greek. This visualisation color codes text based on word origins.
Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?
The purpose of this project is to represent and explain data quickly and effectively in a visual and interactive way that represents and tells a story about one particular aspect of Johannesburg....
Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...
Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data?
The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....
I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria:
Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations
An explorable 3D landscape built using data from an analysis of Grimm's folktales. I identified words in the stories that stood out against common English and used this to generate a landscape on...
A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...
#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...
Anecdotally, aspiring musicians flock to Nashville. Portland has a vibrant food truck scene. Theater is rooted in New York City. Yet what about other cities? What is the creative fabric of...
I created a series about some of the major impacts of global warming that I witnessed in Washington State this summer, using scientific data to show how the drought is devastating the...
Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.
The Financial Inclusion Map explores differing access to and use of financial services around the world. It visualises data from the World Bank using a unique interactive hexagon cartogram map. A...
Over the course of the last thirty years, more than 7 million Colombians have left their homes and towns, looking for safety away from the conflict between the guerrillas, the Colombian armed...
This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...
If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...
Weather forecasts predict future wind conditions only in the range of weeks. Climate predictions look at big changes over years and decades. However, for energy traders, wind farm managers and...
Since the 1990s, there have been a number of public health interventions to encourage people to quit smoking This combined with a constant increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes has seen a...
How much money exists in the world?
Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...
Capricious Earth is big data visualization product, shows statistics from 1976-2016, more than one million global seismic data for nearly 40 years, and the earthquakes of Chinese provinces. This is...
These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...
timeglo.be uses Wikipedia and DBpedia to create a database of over 20000 events from world history, each with a short description, and plots them on an interactive 3D world map. You can put in...