I created this project for a school assignment last spring, in which I was given the freedom to make an infographic about absolutely anything. I had never made anything like this before, and I...
Kowloon Walled City, located not far from the former Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, was a remarkable high-rise squatter camp that by the 1980s had 50,000 residents. A historical accident of colonial...
Instead of writing yet another paper, I handed in this visualization for the LERU Bright 2013 Student Conference which will be held in August in Freiburg, Germany. This year's conference topic is...
The goal of this project was to question myself and to try and find all the positive things about my life. Positive was my key word for this. I was finding it hard to describe to people what...
Each glass of lemonade represents weather information for Toronto in August 2012. It compares the daily temperature to all the days of the month, as well as to what the temperature was on that same...
This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...
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...
FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you're missing out—that your peers are doing, in the know about or in possession of more or something...
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...
BBC Knowledge commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA. Three minutes is a short time to explore a subject where most doctorates only...
In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...
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 have previously been...
Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...
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...
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...
With this Data Visualization, created exclusively for the competition, I wanted to offer a way to understand terrorist phenomena around Europe, in order to have a clearer vision about policies of...
This timeplot is a visual history of the Supreme Court of the United States from the original six justices in 1789 to the present-day nice-justice Court. It combines biographical information on...
Jotun, one of the world's leading decorative paint brands, explores the color selection process by extracting data about consumers color preferences from Pinterest. This data visualization is the...
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...
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.
This data visualisation project is a 3-dimensional interactive visualisation showing all depths and heights of the London underground system. The project is created in Unity and C#, using a comma...
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.
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...
This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...
JWT's AnxietyIndex is intended to help brands navigate consumer anxiety. In times of heightened consumer anxiety, brands need data about the levels, intensity and drivers of consumer stress that...