Color research in movies. We held a survey concerning colors presented in several films by means of calculating the amount of one or another color shade appearing during the whole movie. That's how...

Using data provided by the Hong Kong Observatory, the graphic visualises 23 years worth of rain in Hong Kong, starting from 1990. It shows the daily average rainfall as well as any issued tropical...

This visualisation quantifies the instrumental contribution to the final movement of six classic symphonies. Each visual @project.is based on the classical seating arrangement of an orchestra and...

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

ghg worked with Save the Children, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to changing the lives of children in need around the world, to shed light on maternal health and its impact on child...

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...

As James Bond marked its 50th anniversary we wanted to find a stylish and fun way to convey some key data about the films. In order to gather our data a number of journalists volunteered to watch...

Manifest Destiny tells the story of the United States in 141 maps from the Declaration of Independence to the present. The visualization lets the user flip through more than 200 years of history in...

Snakes reveal historical trend and highlight present situation. Snake heads (biggest bubbles) show current number while the tails show past. It balances the importance of present and history.

A portrayal of recurring sounds in the “Sirens” chapter of Ulysses. The implied musicality of this chapter, coupled with the mechanistic-if-it-were-not-intentional recurrence of certain words,...

It can be difficult to imagine what a cell looks like! Circles within blobs are the common diagrammatic images I remember from science lessons. These impenetrable visualisations confounded me. I...

The Infinite Jukebox is a web app and visualization that creates a never-ending and ever-changing version of any song. The app works by using the The Echo Nest music analyzer to decompose a song...

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...

data from an annual barometer led for AXA (insurance). last year, it was focused on youth because young people represent a sur representative rate of death on the road than the part they represent...

Ancient Chinese inventions include many common items in use today, amongst them paper, silk, matches, gunpowder, and even toothbrushes. The graphic looks at some of these inventions, sorting them...

A visualisation produced for Ofsted to accompany their Access and Achievement Report. The visualisation looks at how low income backgrounds can affect the employment prospects of students in England.

Visualization for the New York Times Magazine on a project of the American art professor Hasan Elahi. The image represents his visual alibi for the year 2007 based on data from his Website.

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...

Infographic on aquaculture in the World

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...

At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button...

An interactive look at time...

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

This interactive visualization uses publicly available data on smartphone user behavior. The visualization allows you to observe smartphone penetration throughout the globe, pick a gender, then...

This handout was used as a summary after our popular 'Choose Impact' event (where David McCandless was a speaker). The event aimed to raise the profile and importance of visualisation within the...

–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...

Just because you're at work, doesn't mean you're actually getting work done. Between excessive emails, pointless meetings, and constant interruptions, your productivity takes a back seat. You're...

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...

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...