Issues that go unmeasured often remain unresolved. Understanding children's current situation and their problems is vital when dealing with future problems in our society, which is why we need to...
Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia.
Big data gets all the glory, so I set out to explore data of a much smaller and more personal nature. Little Data is an ongoing series of data visualizations based on hand-collected personal data...
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular online encyclopaedia, built by the collaboration and coordination of its users. Anyone can edit a page and improve the articles, as long as three core...
Big Data techniques and data from over 300,000 cellphone users living in Barcelona, duly aggregated and anonymized, provided the basis for a new map of commuting patterns in the city. Specifically,...
In June 2013 the scale of government mass surveillance of agencies, like NSA and GCHQ, were leaked by Edward Snowden. This project intends to raise awareness by designing a fictional monitoring...
I can't read music but I can parse it. The talent of reading music has always escaped me which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family. However, I've always enjoyed how sheet...
The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...
The Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...
Dawes’s work, Cinema Redux, inspired us to take a serious look at how one would go about quantifying the amount of ‘redness’ that pervaded the Chinese media. Would the resulting outcome help to...
The unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...
An historical overview on the visualization of data and information. Visualization is a language that could be defined as almost universal, something that makes it possible to translate data and...
Commissioned by BRIGHT for Twitter France, Doris Le Bot creates unique digital creatures from real-time tweets, born from various properties of the users' Twitter profile.
During ab event in...
In the 2014/15 concert season programme, the »Symphonieorchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks« offers a peek behind the curtain. Here is a selection of the 21 infographics. Formula One in the concert...
We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...
Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data?
The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....
This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...
Here’s a look at every single song that has reached the Hot 100, stretching back to 1958. Each tiny rectangle denotes a different song. The larger the rectangle, the longer the song stayed on the...
MapInSeconds lets people create choropleth maps just by copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet/Excel.
A major goal of this is to make map-making straightforward and accessible. The maps can...
Government, statistics & data visualisation? What’s going on here then?
For years the UK Office for National Statistics releases lacked imagination; yet there was so much potential to inform...
At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...
News Stream Live visualizes the steady stream of news on Spiegel Online - one of Germany’s most-read news pages – and the reactions in social media.
Based on different views it can be seen the...
Redburn is Europe’s largest independent equity research and broking firm and has a premium position in the market. Redburn IDEAS helps fund managers, sales people, and analysts understand and...
There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...
Budget cuts can be a little befuddling, which is why for the 2015 Spending Review we wanted to create something that was easily accessible and understandable for everybody – whilst still being...
This comprehensive infographic manual uses infographics and visualizations to reinterpret William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”. It deciphers existing content using the lens of...
This was a semester long project that was created during my studies at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. This project shows the impacts trough deforestation. From the...