The Office for Creative Research is a multidisciplinary research group exploring new modes of engagement with data, through unique practices that borrow from both the arts and sciences. OCR...

The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...

The unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...

This piece of data visualization aims to deconstruct and represent the emigration flow of Spain between the years of 2008 and 2013. The system that I created to visualize the total number...

What to study in Costa Rica? Would it be worth investing in that career? Are there openings in that field in local market? How much can you earn at companies in that country? Are there many people...

Film production from 2005 to 2011: The first thirty ranked countries were considered, also highlighting 100% national film production.The flows were represented as if they were sedimentations...

Domestic Data Streamers is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. With a background in new media and...

These are New Zealand politicians’ social media fingerprints. The subject of the graph sits in the centre. The MPs who they are connected to in some fashion form a ring around the edge,...

Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...

I have always loved Disney and Pixar movies, growing up with classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Watching these as a girl, I was mostly oblivious to the similarities between women characters....

Cartesian is the first Italian blog dedicated entirely to Information Design. The site's aim is to explore the subject in all its facets, increase visibility and attention to the matter, and...

Two of the images show every goal scorer, visually linked to their respective teams whilst one of the images shows all the players from the tournament together with hi-lighted goal scorers.

This map shows the collaboration networks between researchers in different cities. Apart from its aesthetic qualities, the map is useful to illustrate some interesting collaboration patterns....

Visualization of oil and gas production divided into Opec countries and non Opec countries @thevisualagency

We studied the dynamics of innovations in the management of prostate cancer between 1980 and 2014 and calculated their distribution between 2015 and 2030. Our work is based on a semantic and...

An interactive answer to the question: how much traffic and congestion does a presidential visit cause?

It's evening rush hour near MacArthur Park, and the streets teem with activity. Crowds pack the crosswalks, weaving around cars that nose through to make right turns. Men pull food carts and...

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

Nothing beats an illustration project that involves all my favourite things - food, food and food. Be it Western or Asian, of different flavour, of different culture. 

This infographic portrays the result of a survey of almost 500 authors, journalists, editors, students, and media and marketing professionals, from best-selling authors, asking them: who is the...

Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...

Mobile-friendly interactive exploring aspects of breast and ovarian cancer.

There is something wrong with the global financial system. While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...

ScoreWithData Context In today’s era, collecting data is in many ways, the easy part. Making sense of data in a business context seems like a harder task. Business leaders are still anxious...

Infographics are commonly mistaken as a modern invention, but they’ve actually been used to captivate and educate minds throughout history. This motion video reviews the past and present status of...

The First World War was initially dubbed the war to end all wars. Sadly, the world has witnessed more than 200 conflicts in the 100 years since. Poppy Field reflects on the human cost of war from...

The UK’s electricity generating sites and sub-sea interconnectors. Only currently operating sites of 1 megawatt (MW) capacity or larger are included. The size of the circles is proportional to site...

The visualizations show data on Africa and are specifically related to the increase in population in the continent over the years, to socio-economic indicators (income, quality of life, life...

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

Infographic series around the World Cup and the countries participating. Published by OnLab