Every year, we score and rank countries and territories on their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Then we make the data visual – using clear, bold shapes to turn our scores into a...
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...
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...
For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, Brendan created a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of...
Rabobank Netherlands asked me to make an infographic which gives a clear view of the increase and decrease of 'old' and new media. The message is not that new media is pushing the traditional media...
'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...
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,...
I wanted to map out the complicated and various notes, taste descriptions of wines and their food pairings. I created this to help me make better choices in bringing the right type of wine to...
Every day, millions of people check in on Foursquare. We took a year's worth of check-ins in London, Chicago and Istanbul and plotted them on a map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the...
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...
What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...
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...
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...
In July this year, a fairly significant piece of British Tennis history went down. Andy Murray, won Wimbledon. The first British male to win it since Fred Perry in 1936. However, the win seemed...
While Wikipedia is a most modern creation, its content reflects a historical accumulation of facts and attention. This map of London shows the density of articles in Wikipedia associated with...
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"...
At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button...
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...
A day before I was given a brief to present information on a personal habit over a period of a week I started a very bland and uninteresting low carbohydrate diet because I needed to cut down to a...
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...
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. No, an image showing the number of kills by James Bond in official movies. Using data provided by The Guardian Data Store, the image pays homage to the...
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...
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 purpose of this project is to discuss the position of graphic design on the border between the research community and the public, through visualization of different aspects of a peace and...
Data visualisation in a book format with data from the UN's Human Development Report about well-being and development. I designed a collection of books, one for each of the 187 countries that are...
Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...