The project started with a walk of little steps through the forest of server infrastructure, big data and nuclear power stations. It continued with forming an estimate of electricity used by the...

What was the likelihood that Obama would be re-elected? Instead of talking to the pundits, The Economist listened to the data. Specifically, we looked at the president's economic performance in the...

Research reveals what helps-and hurts-in our pursuit of bliss

A mapping of the most influential tweeters in sports -- how the leagues, journalists, and athletes themselves are interconnected.

Many of the defining forces of our time — the rise of the digital age, the globalization of the economy, the decline of American competitiveness — can be understood through one simple thing: a...

What does your cat get up to once it leaves the cat flap? BBC Horizon teamed up with the Royal Veterinary College and Lincoln and Bristol universities to investigate the secret life of domestic...

Remember all 1,352 shots the Chicago Blackhwks used to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's championship trophy? We do.

In 2012 there were approximately 810 million people over 60 years old in the world. This number is projected to grow to more than 2 billion by 2050, at which point the elderly will outnumber...

Turnover and financial performance of international agencies operating in Italy. One hundred companies, 3 years of data.

The convoluted relationships between the Marvel characters before they finally get it together

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...

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,...

Infographic dedicated to cinema and movie preferences of an above-average guy.

Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...

SPOILER ALERT! Everybody dies in the end (as they did in Hamlet, as they did in the Titanic.... get over it). This interactive visualization explores the flurry of tweets that occurred after the...

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...

Manchester City won 2012′s English Premier League. But what if there were no goal-keepers allowed? We visualise how the final table would have looked if the rules of the game were tweaked.

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...

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...

Rainfall Data Browser is developed at the Iowa Flood Center, University of Iowa by Dr. Ibrahim Demir. This interface creates visualization of radar and satellite based rainfall products projected...

This visualization shows the number of grand operas in europe, subdivided by author (the outer ring) and by city (the inner shapes). Each city is represented with a polygon in which each vertex...

This map shows monthly average temperatures recorded by approximately 7,280 climate stations around the world since 1900. Our goal was to show the beauty in the diversity of land temperatures,...

Kindred Britain assembles and visualizes records of nearly 30,000 individuals, mainly (but not exclusively) British. Many of them are extremely well-known in the nation's culture. The database in...

This visualisation compares each of the last 12 Golden Ball winners with the average of the other 11.

This infographic classifies the adherents of major religions to visualiSe the relative (and changing) sizes of different faiths. The chosen format takes inspiration from the imagery of a sceptre,...

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...

The internet and the importance of social networking in the digital age is a self-directed project which is designed to help you better understand how many people use the top Social media.

Businesses can take one of four paths to growth: They can acquire new customers, increase loyalty and new spend, innovate new products and services or enter new markets. One of the oldest ways to...

This interactive visualization looks at the political and military positions for and against military intervention in Syria.