Hundreds of millions of people around the world are escaping poverty and becoming middle class. At the BBC News we wanted to introduce users to the growth of this new middle class in places like...

The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index is a nationwide poll of American voters detailing what they think should be done about the country's water crisis and who should pay for it. The key findings of...

Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...

Tech blogs. They don't agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. If there's...

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...

Urban World helps navigate the unprecedented global wave of urbanization. Users can compare GDP, population and household income for more than 2,600 cities worldwide, in 2010 and in one scenario...

A movie can have multiple genres. Which genres are assigned often together to the same movies? Which genres come mostly alone? Or rarely alone? How do the movie attributes correlate with their...

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...

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...

Visualisation of all fallen and found meteorites between 1900 & 2000. The graphic gives a special view on meteorite findings by comparing time and longitude on a radial axis. This kind of...

Student project showing the effects of cigarette butt pollution. The campaign was to help promote change.

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...

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...

Working with Uni be we analysed the nationalities of the players in the champions league. Here are our findings.

Each year, CLEVER°FRANKE (C°F) publishes a weather chart. In these annual charts, we explore methods to visualize last year's weather. CLEVER°FRANKE has a special affinity with the weather; the...

I wanted to map out the complicated and various notes, taste descriptions of wines and their food pairings. I created this to help me make better choices in bringing the right type of wine to...

Megacities are devouring more and more water, raw materials and power. The high levels of consumption are a pressing issue. The infographic shows what Bosch is doing to help. The graphic was...

Happy hour may possibly be the best hour of your entire day. A chance to unwind a little after a grueling day of work, mingle with co-workers and friends, enjoy some food, and catch a cool buzz....

Almost everyone has fond memories of Big Bird, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster. And it turns out that these programs were not only fun to watch, they actually help young children learn. Children under...

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

While horses have come close in recent years, none have come close to replicating the winning form of Affirmed or Secretariat, perhaps the most famous horse of all time. Activ8Social takes a closer...

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...

Approximately 70,000 thoughts run through the human mind each day—a significantly larger number than the amount of breaths you take daily, averaging 21,600 to 24,000.

Waxing Crescent Moon as seen from Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres and Equator. Just rotate the image to see how it looks like.

We wanted to show that the modern football fan isn't just a lager loving technophobe watching football in the pub and on the terraces. They have access to a wide array of new technologies and...

Yet fistulas are almost entirely preventable. Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with United Nations Population Fund, are working on the Campaign to End Fistula. By ensuring the availability of...

The Cabinet Office commissioned TNS BMRB to disseminate the results of their survey based on the public perspective on community and charitable giving. We interpreted these findings in the form of...

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...

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,...