This web application visualizes how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.

HALO is a 3-dimensional object that maps complex data flows into an aggregate, and intuitive data picture. It is an intelligent digital object who’s colour, form and behavioural characteristics...

Using the publicly available transcriptions of all Academy Awards speeches (from Oscars.org), we analysed 450 speeches made by Best Actors, Best Actresses, Best Directors, Best Supporting Actors,...

What kind of names do we see every day in our cities and villages throughout life?

When Formula One began in 1950, cars were designed purely for speed and crash helmets were not compulsory. The sport was both new, and deadly, with 11 driver fatalities in the first...

This infographic visualises data regarding women: life expectancy, percentage of the population, and finally, the difference between the percentage of women in parliament in 1990 and 2014 for...

We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...

Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won't run...

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

There is something wrong with the global financial system. While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

Because we all enjoy a little light masochism now and then, we've put together a full rent map of the capital, showing the average monthly cost for a one-bedroom within a kilometer of each Tube...

Visualise the usage patterns of Indego, Philadelphia’s new bike share system. There are clear cyclical usage patterns for many of the Indego stations: Stations in residential areas tend to...

An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow

The visualization explores the levels of freedom in countries according to Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, that is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global...

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

Less than 1% of the people on earth control a staggering 44% of the available wealth. In fact the top 80 richest people in the world have the same combined wealth as 50% of the World's...

We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...

Not all markets are the same, nor are individuals. TNS took a comparative look at the four personas of the connected consumer in the UK and China for our 2014 Connected Life campaign, showing that...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.

In today's computerized markets it can be extremely difficult to catch a spoofer amid the deluge of daily trades. @mattleising @rjnskl @adamrpearce

The project is a visual analysis of the letters written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theodorus ("Theo") between 1873 and 1890. For each letter an automatic linguistic extraction has...

The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013.

Yesterday New Zealand’s Minister of Finance tabled the 2015 Budget. The Budget lays out how the Government will spend $NZ88 billion dollars over the coming year.

Turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover how some of the world’s most original artists, writers and musicians structured their day, based on ‘Daily Rituals’ by Mason Currey. Filter the...

Projects in the fields of communication design, visualization and design research for national and international clients as well as self-initiated and non-commercial...

Energy is complicated. The goal of the U.S. of Energy is to help you understand energy realities in America. Staying away from politics and not playing favourites with any individual resource....

This chart visualises the most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 http://www.prooffreader.com/

The panorama view shows the 50 top songs as individual planetary systems with the original work as the sun. Each planet represents a version of the song and it’s appearance indicates...

“Made By Numbers” is a project that uses our company’s own 2014 data to generate a unique, artistic output representing our brand. We mined a year of HUSH’s data and used it to design a physical /...