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...
Making the quantity of all human produced objects feasible which circulate around our planet might be difficult to imagine. So we built a storyline that picks up the subject from different...
Billionaires is a visualization of all humans with a capital over 1.000.000.000 dollar. The data comes from http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ but the way the information is visualized provides a...
With GED VIZ, we have developed a web-based tool to visualize flows of trade, finance and migration, thus showing what globalization is about: mutual dependencies. In addition to the flow data, 16...
When President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2012, the bill included a requirement that companies cover the cost of FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and services...
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...
This work visualises nearly 95 million casualties of war from the 20th century. Data made available by The Polynational War Memorial make clear that war was a near-constant characteristic –...
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....
The Lancet medical journal commissioned this motion infographic to publicise a new study revealing the outcome of mass vaccination against meningococcal meningitis in Chad. As ever the challenge...
This gas price ranking visualizes gasoline price data from 61 countries. The information is sorted by average fuel price and by pain at the pump, which measures the percentage of a day's wages that...
'The Beginning and the End' compares the completely abstract notions of the creation of the world, written in Genesis, and the apocalypse, written in Revelation. Each piece of visual data...
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...
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...
Listen to Wikipedia is a visualization and sonification of Wikipedia's live recent changes data. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the...
The –metro –is a central component in the daily life of millions of Parisians. As a result, the official network map conditions the way commuters perceive time and space, as they tend to select...
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...
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,...
The Consumer Barometer is a global research project Google commenced several years ago, to provide insight into how consumers use online and offline media in their purchase process. Our main goal...
These new city maps are formed by –connecting the dots' between stores of major brands, such as McDonalds, Starbucks, The Body Shop etc. By linking them and covering the area between them the image...
Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) is an algorithmically-generated, audio-annotated, dynamically evolving map of the music genre space. It arrays the 700+ major music genres tracked (so far) by...
The German armed forces and three other states closed together in September 2010 to bring each national air transport to european accountability. The information graphic shows the new quantity of...
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...
Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since 2500 BC. 45,716 have been recorded. Only 1,107 have been seen falling.
BOLIDES is an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that...
This timeplot is a visualization of the progression in political ideology of every House seat from 1789 to 2012. The main stream is made of more than 36,000 circles, each representing one...
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...