English has words from all over the world but come from three main sources: Germanic, Old French, and Latin and Greek. This visualisation color codes text based on word origins.

Although the Force is vague and entirely fictitious, this infographic identifies, measures, and categorises use of the Force of the first 6 Star Wars movies.

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

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....

Visualisation of air bag recalls

Prince was much more than a prolific musician. Besides giving rise to the "Minneapolis Sound," he also had an exceptional eye for spotting talent. He created numerous musical groups and wrote hit...

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, regions will face drastic changes and will be increasingly affected by climate hazards.

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

This is a project I worked on while I was an intern - mandatory internship part of my M.Sc. course - at DensityDesign Research Lab. I design and developed the website. The project is a first...

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...

After Amelia and Oliver have yet again topped the list of most popular baby names in England and Wales, we look at how other names are faring. While Mia and Ella were gaining fans, there were...

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

Using the form of infographic design to visualize the abstract concept of memory, this picture explains how memory is transmitted between neurons where synapse plays an important role and shows the...

Choosing a university is an issue that every Russian family finds itself facing at some point. This analysis of the higher education landscape over the past few years might be helpful in making...

The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...

In the spirit of that never-ending pursuit of the next great idea, this interactive Patent Wall visualises the tens of thousands of Qualcomm's inventions conveyed through our patents. This is the...

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...

On the 10 of January the great musician David Bowie died. Several web portals published the lists of the critics favorite songs. So 3 very different in many ways (political views, social aspects...

The worst coral bleaching event in recorded history currently threatens reefs across the globe and scientists warn the situation may not improve anytime soon.The threat to corals around the world...

A visual display of the varieties of tea from China and Taiwan. As the second most widely consumed beverage, second only to water, tea has a lot more varieties than you would think. Like wine where...

Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible? This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...

GENDER GDP/GAP attempts to communicate the stark contrast between the economic dynamism of world’s richest countries’ and the unequal political representation that has characterised it, since 1960.

State of the State is an initiative where Deloitte analyses open data using advanced analytics techniques to gain insights that have a social impact. This year one of the theme’s that was studied...

The average office worker productivity is now 84% higher than it was forty years ago, and the transformation of our workspace may have provided a helpful hand.  From the classic Knoll to the...

As of today, 59 women have been to space. In honor of International Women’s Day, I used the upcoming Mapbox Studio dataset editor and Mapbox GL JS to visualize where each astronaut is from and more...

Standing on a given point and facing perpendicular to the coast, if you went straight ahead, never turning, where would you end up?

The Affordability Explorer is an interactive app that maps data about the housing affordability of 584 cities. The main intention is to inform about relation between house price, income and...

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

This research aims to understand the general design shape elements of a trendy logo by classifying and visualizing the logo trend data with design characteristics, and to interpret the changing...

Visualising London's pulse.