This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...

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...

Comparative analysis between the number of smokers and total population of the european union member states. The indicator is defined as the number of current tobacco smokers among the population,...

The Global Peace Index interactive map visualises the Global Peace Index (GPI), a composite index that measures peace in 162 countries according to 22 indicators. The objective is to engage a...

The British have always been obsessed with Class, and apparently we still are. The BBC's Great British Class Calculator has so far had more than 7 million page views. The project began when the...

Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...

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...

UNSPEAK is a web-based interactive documentary investigating the manipulative power of language, based on the book by Steven Poole and initiated by Submarine, Amsterdam. Short films made by...

Infographics showing the events taking place in North Africa in the spring of 2011, which became the starting point of the protests in the region.

A visualization showing ages of buildings in Ljubljana on an interactive map. Accompanied by an animation showing the evolution of the same city between years 1500 and 2013.

365 days of coffee. From grower, to roaster, to you. Visualising the journey of each coffee shipment - from farmer to roaster. Dunne Frankowski, a creative coffee company founded in association...

An animated and narrative exploration of the key issues that have created economic inequality in the United States today.

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

To celebrate 30 years of NatCen's British Social Attitudes survey we launched a new interactive data tool letting you explore 30 years of data on attitudes to the economy, welfare, morality,...

Through the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi I got interested in network science. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks impressed me. After...

Does your name affect your destiny? By signalling your class, gender or ethnicity, does it make certain careers out of reach? We looked at the most popular first names in a range of professions and...

We visualize the Wiki revision history based on a History Flow, which is a visualization tool for a time-sequence of snapshots of a document in various stages of its creation. .

The –metro –is a central component in the daily life of millions of Parisians. As a result, the official network map conditions the way commuters perceive time and space, as they tend to select...

At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button...

London is known as a multicultural hub, a 'melting pot' where millions of people live their day to day lives forming part of a vibrant mix of ethnic diversity. But what is the scale of this...

What if we could see a baseball player's offensive stats all at once? These are radar charts, but try to think of them as fingerprints of offensive output.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. No, an image showing the number of kills by James Bond in official movies. Using data provided by The Guardian Data Store, the image pays homage to the...

Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...

Data on Paris and Parisians located through the metropolitan network. This datavisualisation is using open data from national statistics.

If the world were a village of 100 people, what would its composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications.

My '45 is part of the digital project around Ken Loach's documentary feature, –The Spirit of –45'. Users of My '45 are asked to answer a series of simple visual questions relating to their life in...

A Bay Area (Redwood City Wharf) tide prediction diagram for each 24-hour day in the Month of June 2013. The graph provides visitors and residents to/of the bay area with recreational/commercial...

Infographic showing key events in the space race between the USSR and the USA

We couldn't resist this one. We admit it. We love MINI. Most normal car brands don't have much personality, but MINI is not normal. It's feisty, it's fun, it's joyful and it's not afraid to be...

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...