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 Carbon Majors project (www.carbonmajors.org) is the culmination of eight years of combing through publicly available records about fossil fuel extraction from all across the globe and detailed...
The Swiss Public Value Atlas compares the public value generated by the top 50 companies. The ranking can be analyzed by 4 dimensions: Fulfillment of tasks, social cohesion, moral and quality of...
Capture the now with Kennedy. A new way to mark moments in time complete with surrounding context of the things happening around you.
One tap and Kennedy will collect data about where you're...
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...
Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East, carried out by Northwestern University in Qatar with the collaboration and support of Doha Film Institute, is an interactive tool that explores not only...
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 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...
Planet Earth is this solid thing you are standing on right now. In your everyday life you don't really waste a thought about how amazing this is. A giant, ancient, hot rock. How did it come...
The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records (FACTOR) is a private non-profit organization that helps fund Canadian musicians through various programs. Their 2013–2014 Annual Report details...
Which writers were fast friends - and who had book-throwing beefs? Unpick the cliques and clans of 20th century literature with the visualisation for the Open University.
Originally in Flash...
Are global CO2 emissions still rising? asks some clear questions about CO2 emissions and answers them with visualizations based on the data from the annual report on global CO2 emissions by PBL...
What happens to a woman’s body during pregnancy? This exceptionally vertical magazine page spread shows it all, addressing several topics, head to toe. The page is part of a special series of...
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...
The visualisation investigates the relative age effect in English football, by examining the dates of birth of every post-war England footballer. Each player is represented by a diagonal line in...
"In flight" is a live data-driven interactive documentary created by Kiln for the Guardian to mark the centenary of commercial aviation. It combines a cutting-edge real-time interactive map of...
As has been recently documented by the press, one of the major challenges that CitiBike is facing is the rebalancing of their stations. As origins and destinations of CitiBike trips are not...
'First World War' is an ambitious interactive experience about World War I, created by Kiln in partnership with the Guardian's multimedia team to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the...
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...
A global survey by Zumtobel and Fraunhofer IAO, concerning the quality of light in offices provides important insights for user-centered light planning. The study proves, that innovative lighting...
The Bloomberg Industry Leaderboard is the data visualization component of Bloomberg's new franchise The Year Ahead. This tool compares 55 global industries and the 600 market leaders within them...
As T.S. Eliot said,
'Mankind cannot bear very much reality'.
His own answer was Anglo-Catholicism but what irrational beliefs sustain other people in the UK?
This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...
The German government released tables of meetings between government officials and business representatives that took place between 2009 and 2013. They are separated into the banking industry, the...