This work visualises nearly 95 million casualties of war from the 20th century. Data made available by The Polynational War Memorial make clear that war was a near-constant characteristic –...

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...

This is a personal map of New York City showing all of our movements during one year. We tracked our location with OpenPaths which is represented in blue and red. The yellow dots are locations...

In an era of political, social, and economic upheaval in the Arab world, the –Politicians' Salaries and Income Inequality' visual represents a collaboration between the teams behind Visualizing...

Poster in the incident at Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011

Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...

Complex technology which began with Conceptual ideas, small experiments, pilot projects and finally the entrepreneurial investment itself. This is a self-directed project to celebrate the 30th...

Over the course of one calendar year I recorded all of the beer I consumed. Keeping track of particular brands of beer, the types of beer, when it was consumed, and how many were consumed, this...

Everything that happens on Wikipedia is recorded, and as such, constitutes data - a signal that can be parsed for meaning. Looking at the number of times a given article is edited, only for the...

'The Beginning and the End' compares the completely abstract notions of the creation of the world, written in Genesis, and the apocalypse, written in Revelation. Each piece of visual data...

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"...

Emoto captured and visu­al­ised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic Games on Twitter. The project consisted of an interactive online visualization, realtime data-journalism...

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...

Tech blogs. They don't agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. If there's...

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 piece was originally created as a 40th birthday gift for a friend who loves baking. I loved the idea of giving her a playful piece of art she could hang in her kitchen. I created all edible...

It is a commonly held belief amongst Hong Kongers that the Lunar New Year period is usually the year's coldest time. The graphic is a visualisation of daily average temperatures in Hong Kong to see...

Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork city, Ireland is home to Cosmos at the Castle. This award-winning exhibition, which opened in 2007, highlights recent discoveries of extreme life-forms on Earth...

The internet and the importance of social networking in the digital age is a self-directed project which is designed to help you better understand how many people use the top Social media.

Manchester City won 2012′s English Premier League. But what if there were no goal-keepers allowed? We visualise how the final table would have looked if the rules of the game were tweaked.

This poster shows bycatch in industrial fishery. Bycatch is other fish then the once that the fisheries target and a serious problem for our seas and the species that live in it. Those numbers you...

This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...

This graphic is a visualization of the history of US state boundaries. It gives an overview of current and past state boundaries throughout the country's entire history, combining time and space in...

There are approximately 300 billion stars in the galaxy. A constellation all its own, the human brain has about one-third that amount in neurons.

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...

I designed this infographic after being inspired by a post on the Economist's website. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created a –Where To Be Born Index' in 1988 and now again in 2013. The...

This diagram portrays China's social media platforms in 4 categories, based on stage of maturity and functional dependency.

This visualisation was inspired by an article we read in The New Yorker, in which Malcolm Gladwell tries to unravel rules underpinning age, creativity and genius (The New Yorker, October 20, 2008,...

Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of linguistic diversity for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows the 99 most common languages in the form of speech...

This 7.5 foot wide poster shows the complete statistical history of the New York Yankees baseball team -- every hitter, every pitcher and every season in the more than 100-year history of the team.