This piece helped to introduce Boston residents to the 12 candidates vying to replace Mayor Tom Menino, who has held office for two decades. We chose to focus on the geographic base that each...
Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake are two of the most recent viral phenomena on the Internet, generating thousands of spin-off versions and billions of views. Pulsar TRAC's Content Tracking technology...
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...
State-by-State is the premier data product from Visual Data, designed to be an online destination for visualizing economic and political data about the United States. Targeted towards business...
A visual representation of the number of Iraqis estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chart compares the official estimates against UK public...
This 7.5 foot wide poster shows the complete statistical history of the New York Yankees baseball team -- every hitter, every pitcher and every season in the more than 100-year history of the team.
This information graphic was shown in the annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2011. The number of wealthy people at the top of the pyramid equals about one percent of the global population....
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...
8 Phases of The Moon is an educational infographic poster explaining what causes the different phases of the moon during the Lunar month. In addition, the graphics illustrate the difference ...
This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...
The Korean war was a bloody battle that lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. It was a conflict caused by a divided peninsula, in which both sides wanted reunification but retaining their...
This infographic compares each of the different James Bonds to see which actor is the most popular. Each Bond is laid out on a (literal) target to enable comparison across categories ranging from...
Originally held at Olympia in Greece between the 8th century BC and the 4th century AD, the Olympic Games returned in 1896 after a 1500 year hiatus. A few sports have been featured on every...
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...
London is known as a multicultural hub, a 'melting pot' where millions of people live their day to day lives forming part of a vibrant mix of ethnic diversity. But what is the scale of this...
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...
An interactive that combines six separate polls and three sets of betting odds into one visualisation that gives readers an immediate insight into how the political temperature was tracking during...
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...
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet with palaeobotanists from the National Museum in Liverpool, giving me first hand experience with fossilised plants from millions of years ago...
This visualisation was inspired by an article we read in The New Yorker, in which Malcolm Gladwell tries to unravel rules underpinning age, creativity and genius (The New Yorker, October 20, 2008,...
The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...
»Generating Utopia« is a realtime visualisation of social location data, made with Processing. Its aim is to show what human habitats could look like if it was possible to transform them...
What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...