Does your name affect your destiny? By signalling your class, gender or ethnicity, does it make certain careers out of reach? We looked at the most popular first names in a range of professions and...
ghg worked with Save the Children, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to changing the lives of children in need around the world, to shed light on maternal health and its impact on child...
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...
24 hours news channels have become a common media to diffuse news in different contexts in a non-interactive manner. Often used in lavish offices receptions for the guests, their functionality is...
Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft was on target to become the first man-made object to leave the solar system. We wanted to take users on Voyager's journey past the planets. But we also wanted to give...
Northwestern University in Qatar's new Arab Media Use survey website contains findings from a comprehensive study NU-Q conducted in early 2013 to better understand the media of Qatar and provide 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.
A visualization showing ages of buildings in Ljubljana on an interactive map. Accompanied by an animation showing the evolution of the same city between years 1500 and 2013.
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. No, an image showing the number of kills by James Bond in official movies. Using data provided by The Guardian Data Store, the image pays homage to the...
Updated automatically every day, a zoomable, interactive mind map showing popular Twitter hashtags and how they are all connected. Drill-down into top tweets and users related to individual tags...
Segmentation expense, incomes and participating in the working class in the 1950s and in the 2011s, the categories are:
housing and municipal rats, working women, working men, transport and...
For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, Brendan created a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of...
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...
This data driven interactive graphic examines the military and political opposition groups trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The data for the graphic was gathered exclusively by Al...
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...
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 graphic provides a birds-eye view of the US economy, providing context for news stories about loss of jobs in manufacturing or the growth of the financial sector. I focused on showing 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...
During the early part of 2012, the City of Oakland's mayor Jean Quan was claiming that 90 percent of the city's homicides and shootings occurred in 100 of the city's 6,560 blocks, and that a plan...
This information graphic was made from a set of drawings made in my sketchbook several times a day over many months. I then translated the drawings into vectors developed an overarching structure.
This work was an attempt to bring the somewhat perceived enthusiasm with a smatter Brazilian vibrancy and place it against the well known problems and tensions of everyday life. Setting this in the...
My '45 is part of the digital project around Ken Loach's documentary feature, –The Spirit of –45'.
Users of My '45 are asked to answer a series of simple visual questions relating to their life in...
The foremost social network focused on professionals, LinkedIn gathers valuable information on individual job-seekers, job-holders, and businesses worldwide. We work with LinkedIn to highlight some...
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...
Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...
As my contribution to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the TV show Doctor Who, I produced and self-published this book of data visualisations. It struck me that while there are many books filled...
This visualisation was the outcome of my struggle to understand travel behaviour in London. The scale of London's transit system is daunting, and I came up with many complex approaches to the...