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,...

With GED VIZ, we have developed a web-based tool to visualize flows of trade, finance and migration, thus showing what globalization is about: mutual dependencies. In addition to the flow data, 16...

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...

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

Listen to Wikipedia is a visualization and sonification of Wikipedia's live recent changes data. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the...