In order to turn music into numbers (which could then be visualized), we decided on the topic of speed drumming — specifically how some of metal’s most accomplished percussionists stacked up...
This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...
How much money exists in the world?
Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...
The Internet is the most important technology in this era. Because the Internet spreads widely and deeply in people's everyday life, this useful technology is somewhat taken for granted. This world...
I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...
People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise.
A network, in...
Artwork for "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera".
The visualization shows the amount of annual Co2 emissions in 39 countries. For each country have been indicated annual...
This interactive data visualization shows all of the 5100 Olympic gold medal winners since the 1st Olympic Games of 1896 (and the current Olympic Records). They are ordered by sport, edition,...
This poster explores the disciplines or professions of creators and theorists who marked the history of data visualization. In the 18th and 19th century, visualizing data is used for thinking...
Twenty-four solar terms is according to the sun in the ecliptic (the earth's orbit around the sun) on the position of the change and develop.
Twenty-four solar terms can reflect the change of...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the production and consumption of Pasta in the world.
Source: International Pasta Organisation - The World Pasta Industry Status Report 2013
All Olympic Games go over budget. In fact, they are the only type of mega-project in the world to do so. These graphs show the total cost of 18 Summer and Winter Olympics held between 1968 and...
This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...
Our latest release constitutes quite a catch: a massive, awe-inspiring aquarium of American freshwater fish! Each finny friend has been meticulously illustrated scale by scale—to scale! This...
Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...
The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...
The artwork shows the 100 heaviest meteorites found and seen falling to earth. For each meteorite it is represented on the arched timeline: the year in which it was found or it has fallen, the...
Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...
Inspired by the SMH article "Casino buses in migrants who hope 'to live beyond their means"(Heath Aston; December 11, 2011), we created a series of map to show the influence of The Star casino on...
Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...
Over the course of the last thirty years, more than 7 million Colombians have left their homes and towns, looking for safety away from the conflict between the guerrillas, the Colombian armed...