The visualization explores the levels of freedom in countries according to Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, that is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global...
After the disappearance of Flight 370, readers had a hard time understanding how difficult the search for plane's black box would be. This graphic shows just how challenging the search is.
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,...
Elementary school: The folded leaflet shows the educational pathways of pupils between kindergarten and secondary school level II between 2001 and 2014. A distinction is drawn between different...
Conflicts, elections and politics, sports and weather, the public focus is constantly changing. Hardly any topic gets enduring attention and new headlines dominate media everyday. But how long does...
This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years.
Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...
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...
Here I Go Again is a data visualization of myself and my daily habits over the duration of a week. For the entire week I documented various vital signs every half hour and recorded personal data...
Weather forecasts predict future wind conditions only in the range of weeks. Climate predictions look at big changes over years and decades. However, for energy traders, wind farm managers and...
Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...
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...
Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...
The work analyzes tourism in Piedmont, an Italian region, considering the attraction factors of the region and the evolution of tourist flows and accommodations. On the left part of the poster, the...
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 –...
“Flights to Milan” visualizes the daily flights to Milan from all worldwide cities. Expo 2015 will be hosted in Milan, Italy. It is important to show how the city is connected to the rest of the...
According to a recent report from the Freedom House, 61% of Internet users live in countries where government criticism is restricted. Though widespread globally, censorship is not evenly...
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...
We analyse the characters played by every winner of an –actor/actress in a leading role' Oscar since 1928 to work out the parts which most reliably lead to glory. Historic South American criminals,...
To move within the universe of emotions is important to understand its structure and know what we will find elements in it, such as galaxies, emotions, comets and different types of lines, and...
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...
A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...
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 physical charts are an attempt to make data and data visualisations legible to ordinary people in their daily lives. In response to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations and the...