Cartographers are tasked with making the physical world understandable through graphical display. Abstract spatial data is given context and translated through elements such as north arrows, scale...

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...

Description: Our new digital age unfolds unseen forms of data tracking. Nowadays these are mainly used for the sake of advertising. What would it mean to collect this data on a personal level? I...

The evolution of the DSM has played a leading role in the medicalization of psychiatry, and has consequently sparked controversy. Proponents argue the hyper-specificity of DSM-V has led to more...

Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...

The History of Chrome illustrates key milestones in the browser's history, the technologies that have emerged since it launched, and the meteoric rise in users who count on Google Chrome as their...

This sculptural data visualization generated from the forces of wind is an exploration in new media art centered around the concept of creating tangible artifacts from intangible forces.

We take the two most nit-picking characters from Downton Abbey, Carson the butler and Lady Violet the dowager countess, and track everything that provoked them across three seasons and one...

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...

Waxing Crescent Moon as seen from Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres and Equator. Just rotate the image to see how it looks like.

This map shows monthly average temperatures recorded by approximately 7,280 climate stations around the world since 1900. Our goal was to show the beauty in the diversity of land temperatures,...

The Cerberus Fossae are a set of west-north-west trending fractures that cut across the Cerberus Plains on Mars. The Cerberus Plains are located approximately between 1550 E and 1800 E and between...

This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...

A visualization of all documented drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.

This data visualization is an exercise in creating a multivariate display using disparate but overlapping scales. Five variables are reported: quarter (of the year), total venture capital...

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

Kantar Worldpanel asked us to conceive a Christmas Card that they could send to their UK clients. We suggested to create an infographic that shows consumer gifting behaviour and thus present their...

How much time do you waste looking for a document or file at work? Imagine having a deadline approaching and your boss needs that document stat. What do you do? We continued our collaboration with...

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...

The Lancet medical journal commissioned this motion infographic to publicise a new study revealing the outcome of mass vaccination against meningococcal meningitis in Chad. As ever the challenge...

“God created time, the devil created calendars,” as the Austrian-American chemist Erwin Chargaff once wrote. But here of course that's not entirely true, since the ixtract calendar you find beneath...

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...

This handout was used as a summary after our popular 'Choose Impact' event (where David McCandless was a speaker). The event aimed to raise the profile and importance of visualisation within the...

An interactive visualization that impartially depicts the casualties of the ongoing conflict in Bahrain, abstracted to take the form of a palm tree.

Understand the diversity of California by examining regional idiosyncrasies. Investigate interests like gun advocacy, veganism, country music, and baseball from a geographic perspective. ...

Corruption is a problem worldwide, but how bad is it? And what can be done? Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index seeks to help answer these questions.

This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years. Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...

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 DB is one of the leading companies for mobility and logistics. The illustration shows the steps of DB what the want to do till 2020 for developing their leadership in the world. That includes...

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...