How wide is the reach of the United States military? It's a difficult question to answer. In addition to active military operations, such as Afghanistan, the U.S. DoD owns, leases, or has a legal...

Other data sets about the Academy Awards tend to focus solely on predictions. Our visualization goes beyond to reveal the divergence in critic-public opinion. In the lead up to the ceremony, it...

Growing up on robots in movies has always got me wondering if there was ever an epic battle then who would win. Obviously size and firepower would be an advantage, but the biggest robots in movies...

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...

This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...

Wikipedia is constantly growing, and it is written by people around the world. To illustrate this, we created a map of recent changes on Wikipedia, which displays the approximate location of...

The first part of this visualization is the interactive map: With the green arrows, you can choose a governance indicator and see which countries have te highest or lowest indicator.A country which...

Infographic showing key events in the space race between the USSR and the USA

The Smiths Snack Food Company asked us to bring their consumers to life, so using a raft of profiling data we created individual 'Data Dolls' to illustrate this in an engaging way.

An examination of the gun killings in the United States.

A day before I was given a brief to present information on a personal habit over a period of a week I started a very bland and uninteresting low carbohydrate diet because I needed to cut down to a...

The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company's structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May...

This visualisation compares each of the last 12 Golden Ball winners with the average of the other 11.

Infogr.am is a popular infographic creator. It enables anyone to make beautiful, interactive data visualizations in just a few minutes. Infogram is used by online media, schools, governments and...

This site provides the most comprehensive snapshot of the UK peer-to-peer lending to date. Using open data from the three biggest P2P platforms we highlight the regional geography of lending. The...

Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork city, Ireland is home to Cosmos at the Castle. This award-winning exhibition, which opened in 2007, highlights recent discoveries of extreme life-forms on Earth...

This infographic shows six classic films that flopped in the box office but succeeded in the long run.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease spread by coughing and sneezing that usually attacks the lungs. It was one of the world's leading causes of death before antibiotics were introduced in the...

Have you ever wondered what civil planes' routes look like?

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...

Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...

Infographic poster (part of a set of two) detailing the stats for each of the players on the 2013 NBA All-Star teams. The infographic uses radar charts to highlight each player's strongest areas.

The Startup Universe displays and explores the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (Venture Capitalists) since 1990.

The best description of this work is found in a post I wrote here: http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/05/behind-the-banner-a-visualization-of-the-adtech-ecosystem.php

From his early silent films in the UK to his –golden years' at Paramount, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the same motifs and themes time and time again. Here we analyse some of these trademark...

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...

What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...

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.

An animation visualising key data from the tns BMRB Public Opinion Monitor - what the British public thinks of certain key issues.

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...