The Big Mac Index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their "correct" level, based on the idea of purchasing-power parity. Since then,...
Kowloon Walled City, located not far from the former Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, was a remarkable high-rise squatter camp that by the 1980s had 50,000 residents. A historical accident of colonial...
This graphic is a visualization of the history of US state boundaries. It gives an overview of current and past state boundaries throughout the country's entire history, combining time and space in...
The Infinite Jukebox is a web app and visualization that creates a never-ending and ever-changing version of any song. The app works by using the The Echo Nest music analyzer to decompose a song...
Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft was on target to become the first man-made object to leave the solar system. We wanted to take users on Voyager's journey past the planets. But we also wanted to give...
This infographic is the visual representation of the 8th annual edition of the BrandZâ„¢ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. Using data collected by Millward Brown on behalf of WPP it helps to...
Visual agency Column Five has taken the Forbes's list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world and done with it what they do best, visualize it. The interactive piece lays teams out on...
Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet with palaeobotanists from the National Museum in Liverpool, giving me first hand experience with fossilised plants from millions of years ago...
Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of linguistic diversity for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows the 99 most common languages in the form of speech...
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...
Humans have been keeping honeybees for thousands of years, yet the insects still manage to surprise us. Lost in the debate over what is causing the death of bees is how intricately complex their...
A day before I was given a brief to present information on a personal habit over a period of a week I started a very bland and uninteresting low carbohydrate diet because I needed to cut down to a...
What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...
8 Phases of The Moon is an educational infographic poster explaining what causes the different phases of the moon during the Lunar month. In addition, the graphics illustrate the difference ...
London-based information design agency Signal Noise has launched a new version of last season's successful Transfer Window website with updated features for the 2013/2014 season.
The huge sums of...
From his early silent films in the UK to his –golden years' at Paramount, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the same motifs and themes time and time again. Here we analyse some of these trademark...
Everything that happens on Wikipedia is recorded, and as such, constitutes data - a signal that can be parsed for meaning. Looking at the number of times a given article is edited, only for the...
In December 2012, Chatham House published a major new report on the changing politics of natural resources. The report, Resources Futures, is the result of two years of research and analysis of 12...
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...
Wiley commissioned this piece of work to demonstrate a selection of results from their recent librarian survey (see infographic in situ here http://bit.ly/1eKzORk).
This infographic was created...
Manifest Destiny tells the story of the United States in 141 maps from the Declaration of Independence to the present. The visualization lets the user flip through more than 200 years of history in...
This infographic was commissioned by businessprofiles.com, a comprehensive database of business registration information online. The objective was to bring attention to the fact that Initial Public...
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index visualizes a daily ranking of the world's richest people. The index is a dynamic measure of the top 100 billionaires based on changes in markets, the economy and...