Every day, the Global Historical Climatology Network collects temperatures from 90,000 weather stations. Dating back as far as the late 1700's, the records provide an incredible source of insight...
This visualization was created for the University of Copenhagen. The design relies on simplicity and functionality, combining the experience of reading the time with the new function of monitoring...
How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...
1894 is a mobile-friendly interactive visualization project that showcases the First Sino-Japanese War.
The project recreates the 3D models for the 24 warships in the war according to historic...
The Archibald Prize is widely regarded as Australia's most important prize for portraiture. It attracts broad public interest and has a rich and controversial history. The ABC News Digital...
How the group of cyclists, known in the cycling world as peloton, went from a uniformly French, then European bunch, to a multicolored, multicultural, plurilingüistic mass later? The interactive...
Before his downfall, former security chief Zhou Yongkang was among the most powerful and feared officials in China, a hardliner who oversaw spending on domestic security outstrip the defense...
NHS Winter was an innovative cross-platform BBC News project that provided insight and context to the debate around pressures in UK emergency care. The backbone of the project was an online weekly...
Following the final drawing of World Cup 2014 participants last December, Bloomberg Sports assigned each national team a distinctive rating. BSports then simulated each match of the tournament over...
On the face of it, an acquisition, whether for patents, talent or anything in between can speak volumes about the direction a company intends to take. With social media’s most prominent players,...
The visualization shows the responses of teachers to some questions of the survey undertaken by the OECD TALIS 2013 with the aim of providing a detailed image of the situation of teaching. The...
Data Views are self-contained chart experiences that are created closely with Bloomberg View—the opinion section of Bloomberg News. The impetus behind Data View was a hope to provide clear and...
In 2012 I published a 6-panel infographic explaining the complexities of the Iranian internet. Today, more than ever, we know that censorship is not just happening in countries with oppressive...
Little did Horace Walpole imagine, when he gave his book The Castle of Otranto the subtitle A Gothic Story, that he would be transforming a perfectly harmless word (meaning ‘in the style of...
In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...
A visualization of the number pi represented as a reflective line graph and color coded based on the sequence of the prime numbers. The image is painted on a wall on the busy corner of Grand St and...
In orbit but hardly alone' entails information about the 1.084 satellites that are currently orbiting earth. They are threatened by more than 15.000 pieces of space debris. 'Cleanspace One', the...
Working with technologist Ekene Ijeoma, we created an interactive experience that illuminates where and when refugees emigrate, as well as the complex stories of political, social and economic...
This was the first approach of data visualisation for the Sabinal River Regenaration project in Chiapas, México. The image relates geographic and mobility information that would be the foundation...
Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...
The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,000 people...
The physical charts are an attempt to make data and data visualisations legible to ordinary people in their daily lives. In response to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations and the...
The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's...
40 Governmental organs (‘agencies’) had the task to implement the policy set by the Dutch Government in 2013. These ‘agencies’ are of great importance, but little is known about their finances and...
The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...
This project maps war dead recoded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission during the First World War. It's an attempt to quantify the price of the conflict and equate the scale to a contemporary...
When the Los Angeles Dodgers sold for over $2 billion last year, the purchase price — which was 54 percent more than prevailing estimates — didn’t just elevate the fortunes of the team’s owners. It...
This visualization analyzes the 20 most popular stations in San Francisco in four different areas, and in doing so, it creates a more detailed, nuanced and complex image of the Bay Area Bike Share...