A descriptive interactive visualization of the education levels of world leaders, from 1950 or thereabouts to the present day.

Research reveals what helps-and hurts-in our pursuit of bliss

Urban World helps navigate the unprecedented global wave of urbanization. Users can compare GDP, population and household income for more than 2,600 cities worldwide, in 2010 and in one scenario...

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...

Color research in movies. We held a survey concerning colors presented in several films by means of calculating the amount of one or another color shade appearing during the whole movie. That's how...

"Schematics: A Love Story" is a unique and experimental board book that pairs found scientific line graphics with simple prose to form a narrative in which life is mapped, charted and diagramed....

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

The global health community has united behind the Global Vaccine Action Plan -- a shared vision and roadmap for the Decade of Vaccines -- to reach all children, no matter where they live, with the...

The entertainment company LIONSGATE–s (NYSE: LGF) rise to stardom is a Hollywood darling of a success story as perfect as any Oscar-worthy screenplay: from initial founding in Vancouver in 1997,...

The visualization shows the disease alerts from 03 August to 01 November 2012. You can select the name of a disease on the left then see the alerts by continent. Source: http://goo.gl/aWdW1X

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....

This infographic defines the key objects which overtime have had a profound impact on the development of Retail and society. Arriving at the list of 100 objects has been an enriching experience....

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...

Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since 2500 BC. 45,716 have been recorded. Only 1,107 have been seen falling. BOLIDES is an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that...

An infographic describing point after point the main transformations introduced by the Obama's Health Care Reform Bill, and their consequences over years, together with the net changes in the U.S....

The Consumer Barometer is a global research project Google commenced several years ago, to provide insight into how consumers use online and offline media in their purchase process. Our main goal...

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...

Everything that happens on Wikipedia is recorded, and as such, constitutes data - a signal that can be parsed for meaning. Looking at the number of times a given article is edited, only for the...

Although dialogue can be seen as a way to awake emotion in an audience, it also has a logical and constructive nature. It can be used as a way of seeing the overarching hierarchy and plot of a...

This visualization shows the number of grand operas in europe, subdivided by author (the outer ring) and by city (the inner shapes). Each city is represented with a polygon in which each vertex...

This double sided poster was designed to be a handout for people at Detroit's Eastern Market. Side 1 explores the market itself and what it has to offer—side 2 provides 5 recipes one can make...

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet with palaeobotanists from the National Museum in Liverpool, giving me first hand experience with fossilised plants from millions of years ago...

Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). The aim was to briefly illustrate the history of papermaking in a clear and visually interesting way. We...

This Infographic explores the evolution of how we consume music and how it has come along way since the days of gramophones and crackly records. But now with the onset of piracy and instant...

The aim was to visualise career paths of former PhD students supported by the Wellcome Trust and find how many of them stayed in academia and how many left or stopped working and studying...

This Information Design displays data collected from George A. Romero's Dead series. Each data set shows the correlation of gender and violence throughout the four films. Each piece of data...

With the fine weather on everyone's lips this summer, I decided to investigate if this really was the best summer ever. I sourced data from Met Eireann—the Irish meteorological service—and used...

A visual representation of the number of Iraqis estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chart compares the official estimates against UK public...

The wolf in our living rooms. How much wolf is left in man's best friend? This poster visualises the genetic relationships and diversification of dogs since their domestication from wolves. Data...

This visualization focuses on fictional comic book characters who are adherents of real-world or fictional religions. Also, as an American genre, superheroes comic books closely represent American...