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.
The complete story of the FiFa World Cup, beginning with the first edition of 1930 in Uruguay until the last of 2010 in South Africa. The analyzed data are used to display the goals scored, the...
This visualization shows the number of grand operas in europe, subdivided by author (the outer ring) and by city (the inner shapes).
Each city is represented with a polygon in which each vertex...
We wanted to create something that captures all the drama, struggles, and highlights of the baseball season. We ended up with something that was part data visualization experiment, part...
R. Crumb was responsible for sparking the underground comix (with an x) revolution of the '60s and '70s that brought satirical and adult-themed titles into the mainstream. He was one of the most...
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...
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...
We take the two most nit-picking characters from Downton Abbey, Carson the butler and Lady Violet the dowager countess, and track everything that provoked them across three seasons and one...
This visualisation quantifies the instrumental contribution to the final movement of six classic symphonies. Each visual @project.is based on the classical seating arrangement of an orchestra and...
This visualisation was the outcome of my struggle to understand travel behaviour in London. The scale of London's transit system is daunting, and I came up with many complex approaches to the...
Visualizing the loneliest islands in the world by ranking their loneliness through a scoring system of four factors: number of inhabitants, overall land area, proximity to other land and that...
In 2012 there were approximately 810 million people over 60 years old in the world. This number is projected to grow to more than 2 billion by 2050, at which point the elderly will outnumber...
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,...
–The Better Life Snowflake' uses the data from OECD Better Life Index. This website shows data by either country of category. I wanted to simplify that data even more by using one image. To do this...
In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...
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...
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"...
Grevilleas are members of the Protea plant family and are widespread across Australia. Colour palettes of Grevillea flowers were extracted from photographs, and linked to occurrence records sourced...
This infographic compares each of the different James Bonds to see which actor is the most popular. Each Bond is laid out on a (literal) target to enable comparison across categories ranging from...
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...
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...
Originally held at Olympia in Greece between the 8th century BC and the 4th century AD, the Olympic Games returned in 1896 after a 1500 year hiatus. A few sports have been featured on every...
Through the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi I got interested in network science. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks impressed me. After...
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 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...
'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 sculptural data visualization generated from the forces of wind is an exploration in new media art centered around the concept of creating tangible artifacts from intangible forces.