How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

Data visualisation project about the author's pizza consumption during the year 2016.

A visualization of the ethnicities of the directors and actors of the 1000 highest rated movies on IMDB (February 2016). The idea originated from the debate of #OscarsSoWhite on social media. Thus,...

The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...

During the Climate Conference we published 3 visualizations on the impact of human CO2 emissions. A simulation in which the ‘bubble rate’ reflects the actual CO2 emission rate makes the different...

Explore your favourite “based on a true story” films scene-by-scene, beat-by-beat and test their veracity on a data level. Obviously watch out – **MEGA SPOILERS**

We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...

Technology is moving forward at such a rapid rate, that there are going to be unthinkable changes that will take place in the near future. The following interactive infographic will give you a...

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...

A tool designed to help America's 3 million breast cancer survivors decide their course of future treatment with as little stress as possible.

The last star that survives before the universe turns dark will very likely be a red dwarf. This video explains what makes red dwarfs special and why they might be humanity’s last resort for a new...

The work discussed is a map of Malleshwaram, more than a hundred years old dwelling in the city of Bangalore India with a spirit of its own. Malleshwaram mesmerizes, the heart of it—a potpourri of1...

The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

This poster explores the disciplines or professions of creators and theorists who marked the history of data visualization. In the 18th and 19th century, visualizing data is used for thinking...

The Affordability Explorer is an interactive app that maps data about the housing affordability of 584 cities. The main intention is to inform about relation between house price, income and...

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a...

Understanding the poverty situation and its many layers in London boroughs. This is a poster intended to be displayed in metro stations in the place where people wait. As users do not have much...

This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...

These are the top 250 products that people injure themselves on or with in a year. 

With all of their songs being available now on streaming services I thought I would analyze some data about one of the greatest bands of all time: The Beatles. This visualization looks at their...

Graphically exploring the fluctuations of success across the film careers of a selection of actors and directors

The concept of the cosmic web—viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity—is deeply ingrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about architecture of this...

A visual and data analytic exploration of success in tennis: Uncovering the relationship between performance and popularity. The visualization shows the career paths of the currently 500 best...

This tool presents biological data for all 55 distinct salmon populations found in the Skeena River watershed, as well as maps of current human and environmental pressures on freshwater and...

Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data? The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....

It is an infographic about the relationship between the lack of education and the no use of contraceptives of teenagers (15-19 years) in Mexico during 2014