Between 1992 and 2009, 677 restaurant outbreaks of food poisoning were reported in England and Wales, affecting around 11,800 people. The interactive visualization allows users to explore the most...

What’s Your Poison is an interactive data visualization that attempts to illustrate the truths behind food poisoning outbreaks in UK restaurants. Try your luck at a game of culinary top trumps....

Why the new restaurant critic should be you!

Interactive artwork about the causes of food infection in England and Wales

By using colours to represent percentages, this project seeks to highlight how often each variable (restaurant type, food type, contributing factor) is involved in a restaurant-related outbreak. If...

Data visualization des intoxications alimentaires par type de restaurant et aliment mis en cause, sur la base de 647 incidents recensés et dont l’origine a pu être identifiée en Angleterre et au...

Restaurant-associated foodborne outbreaks reported in England and Wales from 1992 to 2009. Explore every outbreak recorded to see what food types are most affected, which pathogens were involved...

Interactive chart with drilldown capability to view contributing factors by cuisine type.

This visualizations shows the number of outbreaks (absolute numbers) per cuisine type as bubbles (where the areas are scaled to the number of outbreaks) grouped by pathogen/toxin. I tried to...

The interactive visualisation shows the number of food poisoning cases per cuisine and food type. The user can either choose cuisine or food type. The visualisation highlights the 'deadliest'...

Using a Sankey diagram, the visualisation charts the percentage breakdown for food poisoning outbreaks by national cuisine, food type, pathogen/toxin and contributing factor where the cuisine type...

The following visio diagram is drawn to scale to reflect a single page display of the information provided on restaurant-associated foodborne outbreaks reported in England and Wales from 1992 to...

“Enjoyed the way Carlo wrapped the data into a subtle interactive story. And tackled the problem of variety by allowing unpacking and unfolded of separate data elements. Oh and it looked good and...

Dining out is a common form of entertainment, but can it also be risky? 667 cases of food poisoning outbreaks were reported in England & Wales between 1992 and 2009. That is 1 outbreak every 9...

“A few entries took this approach, but Tiffany’s was the most stylish & elegant. Liked the colours and the ‘classic’ feel.” - David McCandless

A look at ten years of food poisoning in England and Wales - highlighting the places where reported cases are high, and the reasons why.

The visualization is designed to help users easily find out most deadly cuisines according to most commonly infected food types.

An attempt to visualize the entire dataset, whilst puling out the story about Salmonella and using a second dataset to investigate the time dimension.

“One of the challenges of this data was its variety (different times, different types, wide ranges). Will leveraged some great code to allow meaningful sorting and for a viewer to seek out...

I chose the dataset 'Percentage of Total Outbreaks for Food Type' because it was the most relatable. The categorization of information is something anyone would be interested in seeing broken down...

“I’m not always a fan of ‘on-the-nose’ visual metaphors. But here the sensitivity of the data leant itself to more impressionistic / artistic display. Rosamund’s approach really works and subtly...

“Julius bagged the prize for the inventive way he inverted the question to open up the visualization possibilities. Great creative solution. He also used every single felt-tip in his collection –...

Interactive visualization made with HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and SVG images. It represents the four main aspects of the dataset with icons and animations. The animations add some fun, the dishes "dance"...

An interactive visualization of the food poisoning outbreaks reported from restaurants in England and Wales from 1992 to 2009. Outbreaks are grouped by cuisine type and category type. Each group...

Our visualization aims to represent the given datasets through the visual analogy of a microscopic image. The main navigation gives an overview of the quantities, while the sidebar grants a more...

“Respectfully minimal. Nicely-grouped comparisons. Nice information flow. Nicely drawn extra silhouettes. Nice!” - David McCandless

Visual analysis of correlations between different cuisines.