Does your name affect your destiny? By signalling your class, gender or ethnicity, does it make certain careers out of reach? We looked at the most popular first names in a range of professions and...
The wolf in our living rooms. How much wolf is left in man's best friend?
This poster visualises the genetic relationships and diversification of dogs since their domestication from wolves.
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With the fine weather on everyone's lips this summer, I decided to investigate if this really was the best summer ever. I sourced data from Met Eireann—the Irish meteorological service—and used...
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...
It appears that we are witnessing a global health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is the greatest single threat to human health in developing nations. Yet this...
The United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United Sates every four years.
This political map looks very different from the...
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...
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...
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...
The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...
Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...
The aim was to visualise career paths of former PhD students supported by the Wellcome Trust and find how many of them stayed in academia and how many left or stopped working and studying...
Visualization for the New York Times Magazine on a project of the American art professor Hasan Elahi. The image represents his visual alibi for the year 2007 based on data from his Website.
During the early part of 2012, the City of Oakland's mayor Jean Quan was claiming that 90 percent of the city's homicides and shootings occurred in 100 of the city's 6,560 blocks, and that a plan...
Athletic sneakers are the creation of marketers rather than podiatrists, and they're undermining the health and performance of everyone from elite athletes to everyday weekend warriors.
While horses have come close in recent years, none have come close to replicating the winning form of Affirmed or Secretariat, perhaps the most famous horse of all time. Activ8Social takes a closer...
The Economist's defense correspondent in 2013 revealed to the world how close Iran was to building a nuclear bomb. But it took a 3-page article to explain. So our graphics editor intricately...
We worked with the Iran Media Program to map a complex constellation of leaders and governing bodies involved in Internet censorship in Iran. It visualizes the relationships between different...
Berlin is very special when it comes to air traffic as the construction of a new airport is highly delayed.
With our interactive news application for the first time people in Berlin are able to...
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...
This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...
Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).
It is a visualisation of the water profile in the pulp and paper industry of CEPI member countries.
To...