After more than 40 years, Studs Terkel’s Working remains one of the best-known non-fiction books ever published. What’s truly remarkable is the fact that this is not a book about wars, politics or...

Which writers were fast friends - and who had book-throwing beefs? Unpick the cliques and clans of 20th century literature with the visualisation for the Open University. Originally in Flash...

This interactive visualization is mainly aimed at the researchers and policy makers of two large Dutch medical research centers, AMC and VUmc. These centers recently started a large-scale research...

The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records (FACTOR) is a private non-profit organization that helps fund Canadian musicians through various programs. Their 2013–2014 Annual Report details...

This visualisation shows the distribution of the 10,568,679 items on Wikipedia, sorted by type. It shows that Wikipedia describes 2,424,305 humans, 588,822 Chinese villages, 152,692 albums, and...

The ranking of most important companies in the world is calculated by Forbes through an algorithm that takes into account four values: sales, profits, assets and market values. The bars, into the...

The Center for Public Integrity's “Dark Money Inc.” investigation uncovered more than $173 million in political contributions from about one-third of the 300 largest companies in the United States...

An infographic on heat waves and snow storms in 35 cities around the globe, by Timm Kekeritz. Statistics on weather are everywhere: on TV, in newspapers, on our mobile phones. But weather is more...

The Center for Public Integrity systematically examined the new radical reordering of campaign finance in 2012 state level elections to assess the impact of the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court...

This visualisation charts Post Office data comparing various holidays costs in different countries from around the world.

As T.S. Eliot said, 'Mankind cannot bear very much reality'. His own answer was Anglo-Catholicism but what irrational beliefs sustain other people in the UK?

This visualization was created for the University of Copenhagen. The design relies on simplicity and functionality, combining the experience of reading the time with the new function of monitoring...

40 Governmental organs (‘agencies’) had the task to implement the policy set by the Dutch Government in 2013. These ‘agencies’ are of great importance, but little is known about their finances and...

How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...

We commemorate the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, tracking his complete silver screen career.

In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...

Formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications in 1989, Time Warner quickly became the world's largest media conglomerate, with divisions that include Warner Bros. Entertainment,...

Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East, carried out by Northwestern University in Qatar with the collaboration and support of Doha Film Institute, is an interactive tool that explores not only...

This is one of four posters in a series, representing Moscow Urban Forum on World Cities Summit 2014 in Singapore. Despite geographical and cultural differences, big cities all over the world...

100 Years of Rock is an ambitious visualisation that displays a century’s worth of musical history. Lasting 33 seconds, the automated scrolling animation leads you through the many evolving genres...

The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...

Working with technologist Ekene Ijeoma, we created an interactive experience that illuminates where and when refugees emigrate, as well as the complex stories of political, social and economic...

Understand Formula 1 better through data. Review all Grand Prix, Drivers, Circuits and Teams from 1950 to now.

The dataviz provides an increased understanding of the smartphone market shares evolution. Rather than displaying isolated data points only, as in the monthly release, it allows access to all...

This video imagines a future where Earth has been ravaged by wars, cyclones, food shortages, destructive weather and turned into areas of uninhabitable zones. And yet cities would still make bids...

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...

A comprehensive guide to a very complicated show. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns to screens Sunday for season 4 to titillate viewers with gratuitous nudity, violence and Peter Dinklage....

A look at the world's food right now, with a focus on how much we produce, consume and waste every second.

Journey with me... on a stationary bike. Several styles of indoor cycling classes are prevalent today; join me as I guide you through one of my typical classes, which I teach between bouts of...