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...

The Global Peace Index interactive map visualises the Global Peace Index (GPI), a composite index that measures peace in 162 countries according to 22 indicators. The objective is to engage a...

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...

Wikipedia Worldview is a web app to project Wikipedia georeferences onto a 2d plane depending on language choices. The resulting picture of our earth can be interpreted as a worldview formed by...

–Attention Radar' is a web app that visualizes large data sets monitoring political agendas of the Netherlands and the European Union. The data was collected by Montesquieu Institute in The Hague...

A map of Rome dedicated to horror movies shot during the years in the city. From "Profondo Rosso" by Dario Argento, to "Tomb Raider" played by Angelina Jolie.

As my extended major project, during my time at The Arts University Bournemouth, I chose to investigate the visualisation of flavour. Palate is a swatch book that visualises the characteristics of...

360 is an exploration into whether it is possible to draw a perfect circle freehand. This idea was sparked after reading an article about a 15th Century artist named Giotto, who was able to do...

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...

We worked with the Iran Media Program to map a complex constellation of leaders and governing bodies involved in Internet censorship in Iran. It visualizes the relationships between different...

Infographic poster (part of a set of two) detailing the stats for each of the players on the 2013 NBA All-Star teams. The infographic uses radar charts to highlight each player's strongest areas.

My '45 is part of the digital project around Ken Loach's documentary feature, –The Spirit of –45'. Users of My '45 are asked to answer a series of simple visual questions relating to their life in...

R. Crumb was responsible for sparking the underground comix (with an x) revolution of the '60s and '70s that brought satirical and adult-themed titles into the mainstream. He was one of the most...

Showrooming is the practice of examining merchandise or products in a store and then buying it online for a lower price. The infographic walks through the viewer defining showrooming, give examples...

This interactive map teaches you the history of street and landmark names in San Francisco. I started the project because these names turn out to be a wonderful window into different layers of...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

The British have always been obsessed with Class, and apparently we still are. The BBC's Great British Class Calculator has so far had more than 7 million page views. The project began when the...

Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) is an algorithmically-generated, audio-annotated, dynamically evolving map of the music genre space. It arrays the 700+ major music genres tracked (so far) by...

This piece was originally created as a 40th birthday gift for a friend who loves baking. I loved the idea of giving her a playful piece of art she could hang in her kitchen. I created all edible...

It is always challenging for language instructors to provide diverse groups of people with optimal learning experiences. Based on the exam results from EF Education in 2011, this infographic work...

Other data sets about the Academy Awards tend to focus solely on predictions. Our visualization goes beyond to reveal the divergence in critic-public opinion. In the lead up to the ceremony, it...

A poster of New York City's tallest buildings arranged in order of the time they were completed.

In an era of political, social, and economic upheaval in the Arab world, the –Politicians' Salaries and Income Inequality' visual represents a collaboration between the teams behind Visualizing...

Everything you need to know about Bitcoin explained in three minutes.

Emoto captured and visu­al­ised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic Games on Twitter. The project consisted of an interactive online visualization, realtime data-journalism...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease spread by coughing and sneezing that usually attacks the lungs. It was one of the world's leading causes of death before antibiotics were introduced in the...

Here's a map of London Olympic facts and figures to guid you through the city's third hosting of the Summer Games.

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...

A visualization of all documented drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.

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,...