Are you past your prime? To explore this question, we plotted the lives of 177 creative thinkers and the ages at which they each completed one notable work, discovery, or product launch. Our...
By analysing over 1,250 attempted transactions – both successful and failed – we can observe the ebb and flow of Chinese investments and contracts. Momentum has grown since 2010 with the energy and...
A visual representation of the number of Iraqis estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chart compares the official estimates against UK public...
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 –...
Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...
Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...
Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...
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...
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...
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)...
Due to its popularity and to its policy that allows anyone to edit pages, Wikipedia often becomes a battlefield, where different factions try to impose their view on controversial topics...
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...
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...
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...
The visualization shows the meals described in 49 novels. The descriptions and the novels have been selected by Dinah Fried, who has collected them in the book Fictitious Dishes: An Album of...
Turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover how some of the world’s most original artists, writers and musicians structured their day, based on ‘Daily Rituals’ by Mason Currey. Filter the...
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...
The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,000 people...
Experience the amazing story of how Apple created the iPod, iTunes, and other related products. Ten years of iPod and iTunes history in a magnificent looking radial chart, down to the last detail:...
From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.
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 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...
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,...