The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....
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,...
360 is an exploration into whether it
is possible to draw a perfect circle freehand. This idea was sparked after reading an article about a 15th Century artist named Giotto, who was able to do...
This iconographical alphabet is the result of more than a decade of research and design. In his travels throughout the world, Graphic designer Jean-Benoit Levy discovered that the language of...
Mobile advertising is on the rise. Millward Brown Brasil developed a study to understand more of this universe. Share of time spent has changed with the possibilities brought by smartphone...
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.
A set of icons that describes the stadiums used from 1993 to 2013 for the Champions League Final. The style, colors and shapes, is simplified to better describe the various features which...
As my extended major project, during my time at The Arts University Bournemouth, I chose to investigate the visualisation of flavour. Palate is a swatch book that visualises the characteristics of...
This sculptural data visualization generated from the forces of wind is an exploration in new media art centered around the concept of creating tangible artifacts from intangible forces.
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...
"Nation Master", a website dedicated to collecting statistics published around the world, managed to create an alternative list of things that countries excel in - a list that will not glorify...
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...
Here I Go Again is a data visualization of myself and my daily habits over the duration of a week. For the entire week I documented various vital signs every half hour and recorded personal data...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Through the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi I got interested in network science. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks impressed me. After...
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.
Cartographers are tasked with making the physical world understandable through graphical display. Abstract spatial data is given context and translated through elements such as north arrows, scale...
This graphic is a visualization of the history of US state boundaries. It gives an overview of current and past state boundaries throughout the country's entire history, combining time and space in...
The Oberhaeuser calendar 2013 is a printed wall calendar 100x70cm big. Each color-ring represents one month of the year. Federal holidays (United States) are highlighted with an icon and white...
Living Ruins is a fictional environmental campaign aimed to educate people about the multitude of benefits that coral reefs bring to tourism, fishing industries, coastline and biodiversity...
Every year, we score and rank countries and territories on their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Then we make the data visual – using clear, bold shapes to turn our scores into a...
I designed this infographic after being inspired by a post on the Economist's website. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created a –Where To Be Born Index' in 1988 and now again in 2013. The...
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...