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...

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,...

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

To celebrate 30 years of NatCen's British Social Attitudes survey we launched a new interactive data tool letting you explore 30 years of data on attitudes to the economy, welfare, morality,...

"Il Film della Partita" comes from the possibility of telling a football game, only with the help of statistical data, for a direct understanding and above all "not conditional" argument. The...

A large-format educational poster, this timescape traces the history of graphic design in the twentieth century. It is a presentation of major design movements emerging out of western Modernism...

UNSPEAK is a web-based interactive documentary investigating the manipulative power of language, based on the book by Steven Poole and initiated by Submarine, Amsterdam. Short films made by...

The Big Mac Index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their "correct" level, based on the idea of purchasing-power parity. Since then,...

Held every two years, the Gold Cup is CONCACAF's marquee tournament and a chance to crown a champion of North and Central American soccer. The 11th edition of the tournament provides a stage for...

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...

Data visualization about the evolution of unemployment rates in Europe (by Eurostats) compared to Spain. You can roll over the name of each country to visualize differences bettwen Spain and the...

A timeline about the evolution of Mecha done for "Pacific Rim" released in theaters. From Mazinga Z to Gipsy Danger, without forgetting Gundam and Power Rangers.

It can be difficult to imagine what a cell looks like! Circles within blobs are the common diagrammatic images I remember from science lessons. These impenetrable visualisations confounded me. I...

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...

The purpose of this project is to discuss the position of graphic design on the border between the research community and the public, through visualization of different aspects of a peace and...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

Every year, millions of people move abroad to boost their earning potential or to find a better way of life. This video animates the key findings from http://www.expatexplorer.hsbc.com - the...

1 Gigabyte is a lot! Graphic visualization of the random fun scenarios that are possible when using the new "one gigabyte" data plan, offered by MTS

Interactive visualisation with data from the UN's Human Development Report about well-being and development. The website is designed with the aim of presenting well-being in a visual way through...

The evolution of the DSM has played a leading role in the medicalization of psychiatry, and has consequently sparked controversy. Proponents argue the hyper-specificity of DSM-V has led to more...

It is always challenging for language instructors to provide diverse groups of people with optimal learning experiences. Based on the exam results from EF Education in 2011, this infographic work...

The main idea of the project is to visualize statistical data, by translating it into an object's shape and behavior. The object in question is a spinning top, whose shape is generated out of...

Megacities are devouring more and more water, raw materials and power. The high levels of consumption are a pressing issue. The infographic shows what Bosch is doing to help. The graphic was...

The Brandwatch Eurovision tracker displayed Twitter buzz about the Eurovision Song Contest during the live final on Sat 18th May 2013. It categorised conversation based on the topic of chat,...

Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...

On the Board is a groundbreaking new initiative of The International Women's Forum (IWF) and The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) that aims to change these numbers. On the...

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...

In an era of political, social, and economic upheaval in the Arab world, the –Politicians' Salaries and Income Inequality' visual represents a collaboration between the teams behind Visualizing...

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...