As part of an ongoing project to tell fictional stories through Data Visualisation, I thought I'd see if I could tell the story of the Hobbit through charts and infographics with the war between...
Every year, we score and rank countries and territories on their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Then we make the data visual – using clear, bold shapes to turn our scores into a...
Cultural Traction is a tool that measures, deconstructs and diagnoses the cultural relevancy of brands, and is a proven driver of brand health not just today, but more importantly...
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....
This Infographic explores the evolution of how we consume music and how it has come along way since the days of gramophones and crackly records. But now with the onset of piracy and instant...
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...
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...
Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork city, Ireland is home to Cosmos at the Castle. This award-winning exhibition, which opened in 2007, highlights recent discoveries of extreme life-forms on Earth...
Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...
Confessions of a Blog-a-holic is an infographic displaying the blogging habits (frequency and times of posts) of a Graphic Design student between 2009 and 2011.
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...
This 7.5 foot wide poster shows the complete statistical history of the New York Yankees baseball team -- every hitter, every pitcher and every season in the more than 100-year history of the team.
A Bay Area (Redwood City Wharf) tide prediction diagram for each 24-hour day in the Month of June 2013. The graph provides visitors and residents to/of the bay area with recreational/commercial...
We take the two most nit-picking characters from Downton Abbey, Carson the butler and Lady Violet the dowager countess, and track everything that provoked them across three seasons and one...
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...
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...
The United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United Sates every four years.
This political map looks very different from the...
The Periodic Table of Storytelling provides an entry point into TVTropes. Much like Mendeleev's Periodic Table, this infographic organizes the fundamental building blocks of storytelling into...
The Economist's defense correspondent in 2013 revealed to the world how close Iran was to building a nuclear bomb. But it took a 3-page article to explain. So our graphics editor intricately...
I thought it would be cool to tell the story of Great Britain's Paralympic history through data. Using statistics that I sourced from the official Paralympic website I charted GB's Paralympic...
The complete story of the FiFa World Cup, beginning with the first edition of 1930 in Uruguay until the last of 2010 in South Africa. The analyzed data are used to display the goals scored, the...
A set of icons that describes the stadiums used from 1993 to 2013 for the Champions League Final. The style, colors and shapes, is simplified to better describe the various features which...
For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, Brendan created a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of...
This visualisation was inspired by an article we read in The New Yorker, in which Malcolm Gladwell tries to unravel rules underpinning age, creativity and genius (The New Yorker, October 20, 2008,...