Visualizing Bloodtests
We were happy to win a design competition in Wired US this month. It was around re-envisioning medical data. Specifically, blood test...
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High Society
Unique times require unique thinking, right? We’re under the cosh here in the UK with unprecendented public cuts and austerity...
Read moreGoogle NGram
With Google’s new tool Ngram Viewer, you can visualise the rise and fall of concepts across 5 million books and 500 years!...
Read moreData, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom?
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Read moreVitamin D
Ever since doing Snake Oil visualization, I’ve become a little obsessed with optimising my diet. Hey – what else is there to do...
Read moreThe Science Behind Wikipedia’s Jimmy Appeal
Seen the latest banner ads on Wikipedia appealing for donations? Like me, perhaps you wondered how such dating site-style ad with a gory...
Read morePeak Break-Up Times On Facebook
An image myself and Lee Byron created in 2008 for The Visual Miscellaneum using Facebook status updates. (The follow-up book Knowledge is...
Read moreThe Varieties of Intimate Relationship
See the image on its own Something Spock might’ve knocked up in his first year at the Vulcan Science Academy. That’s what I...
Read moreThe True Size Of Africa
Brilliant infographic from Kai Krause (perhaps the Kai Krause?) to combat rampant...
Read moreFOUR GREAT INFOGRAPHICS No. 9
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Read moreTerror Alerts vs Elections
Accusations today over the timings of terror alerts and elections. The Bush administration used to raise threat levels around campaign...
Read moreYou’ve Been Quango’ed
The UK has over 1000 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-government organisations). Many will be nixed in the next wave of government austerity...
Read moreWho’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?
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Read moreUpdates Are Beautiful No 2
We’ve been working on some under-the-hood updates on the site and content. Here they...
Read moreThe UK Tax Gap Visualized
The Tax Gap is the difference between tax collected and the potential tax out there. In the UK, official figures put it at a massive £42bn...
Read moreThe Beauty Of Data Visualization
Here’s a recent talk I gave at TED Global Oxford about my passion for data visualization and information...
Read moreHow Many Times Has Dr Who Travelled In Time?
Every single Dr Who journey ever. Crowdsourced ultra-geek dataset for The...
Read morePseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water. (Hmmm, this needs a bit of design IMHO. I might have a chop at...
Read moreWikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars
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Read moreHacking India Is Beautiful
This week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and...
Read moreCognitive Surplus visualized
I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective...
Read moreThe Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009
See the image on its own The Billion Dollar-O-Gram 2009. The latest version of our fabled treemap of billion dollar...
Read moreGreat Visualizers: Always With Honor
Design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor, an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple...
Read moreLive-Vizzing The Emergency Budget
“Live-vizzing” a graphic on the UK government’s emergency budget for The Guardian and Open Knowledge...
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