We turn complex data into dynamic and engaging visual narratives

Radial data visualization from the Beyond Words showreel

Showreel 2019

Beyond Words Studio
Photograph of Ella Kissi-Debrah

This is Ella

Every Breath Matters
Photo of Bill Gates on stage at Goalkeepers 2018 event

Goalkeepers: Bill Gates’ speeches

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Image of a 3D animated plane travelling over the UK

Plane Talking

NATS
Illustration from Visa AI animation

Artificial Intelligence

Visa
Header illustration of a computer game, books. pens and a cup

Work Enemies

Totaljobs
Illustration of a landscape.

Forecasting the Future

ECMWF
Picture of a mountainous landscape

Your Life on Earth

BBC Earth
Collage of data visualization illustrations

Social media storytelling

Various clients
Scaled bubbles showing the number of plane incidents

Flight Risk

BBC Future
Header image of Goalkeepers 2018 printed reports

Goalkeepers: printed/digital reports

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
People watching a sustainable energy animation on screen

Sustainable Energy collection

United Nations
Picture of the two craft from Journey to the Earth and Space Race

Fantastic Voyages

BBC Future
Illustration from Mission Possible visualization

Mission Possible

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Picture of people at the NTD Summit 2017

Cascade

Neglected Tropical Diseases Summit
Picture of 'Time of day' illustration

Time of Day

BBC Future
Picture of 'The making of me and you' illustration

The Making of Me and You

BBC Earth
Photo of Bill Gates at Davos WEF 2017

Outpacing Pandemics

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Data visualization showing average hours of daily sunshines in different world cities

The Great British Quizualization

BBC Future
Picture of 'Festive Conversations' illustration

Festive Conversations

Facebook IQ
Illustration from Human Rights explainer

Human Rights explainers

EachOther
Photo of physical data visualisation at Kew Gardens

Full of Spice festival

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Picture of 'A Day in the Life' map visualization

A Day in the Life

Visa

A Billion Degrees of Separation

BBC Future
Picture of a mosquito

Malaria off the Map

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Picture of 'Animation Collection' illustrations

Animation collection

BBC
Illustration of love hearts containing messages

How Love Works

TotalJobs
Picture of people looking at 'Global Health Check' data visualization

Global Health Check

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Photo of a bowl of noodles being eaten with chopsticks

All You Can Eat

Caterer
IlIllustration of International Space Station

Living Space

BBC Future

Workshops, events and presentations

Previous

2019
London College of Communication London Presenting to this year's new MA Data Visualisation students, helping them understand how we explore and visualize data.
Cytora Sessions London Discussing our story-led approach at this event focused on data science, engineering, strategy and design.
encode conference London Sharing our thoughts and experiences on the power of truthful data to make a positive change in the world.
EDCH conference Munich Speaking about data visualization at this three-day festival for journalists and visual storytellers of all kinds.
WHO workshop Amsterdam Helping the World Health Organization to understand more about how to effectively visualize data.
London College of Communication London A hands-on data visualization workshop with the students of the MA in Data Visualisation.
2018
Data Natives Berlin Attending the conference on tech that’s shaping the data-driven generation.
Paris Peace Forum Paris Providing visualization and digital expertise to the hackathon at the inaugural Paris Peace Forum.
London College of Communication London Talk on data journalism and our process to the students of the inaugural MA in Data Visualisation.
World Health Organisation workshop Slovenia Helping international WHO teams to visualize health data.
Visualizing Knowledge 2018 Helsinki Discussing how information design can reveal unknowns and inspire actions.
Financial Times presentation London Presenting our work to the FT's international graphics team.
YCN: Data, design and digital UX London Sharing insights on using data to design meaningful user experiences.
Data4Change Beirut Design mentoring for human rights organisations.
Hyper Island Stockholm Workshopping on data visualization at the "digital Harvard", Sweden's renowned creative business school.
2017
Malofiej Spain On the judging panel and speaking at the world's most venerable data visualization conference.
Hyper Island Stockholm Workshopping on data visualization at the "digital Harvard", Sweden's renowned creative business school.
2016
Data4Change Beirut Mentoring researchers, designers and developers in creating data visualizations for human rights organisations.
Collaborative Gain New York Sharing our experience in data storytelling with some of the US's industry-leading companies.
Visualized Conference New York 'Lost for Words' was our workshop on the importance of headlines, standfirsts, captions, labels and any other text in data visualizations.
New York Public Library New York 'What can data do for the New York Public Library?' was our presentation to the Chief Digital Officer and his team.
BBC Worldwide London 'What is data visualization?' was our presentation to senior marketing executives at BBC Worldwide.
D&AD Awards London We pioneered, and were part of the jury for, D&AD's very first data visualization category.
2015
European Commission workshops Brussels A series of how-to data visualization workshops across the European Commission.
Data Rave London Hosting this inaugural celebration of all things data at our Shoreditch studio.
London College of Communication London 'The place of data visualization in design' was our presentation to 250 of LCC's student faculty.
Department of Health London 'The power of data visualization and public policy' was our presentation to a selection of influencers with the Department of Health.
2014
D&AD New Blood London Representing all things data on a panel at 2014's New Blood.
Google Squared workshops London We devised and ran regular data visualization workshops as part of Google's digital marketing leadership course aka Google Squared.

Appearances in the press & publications

Some of our press coverage
YCN Magazine You Can Now - The Learning Issue
D&AD Data Visualization at the D&AD Awards
Creative Review The story behind the studio
NPR How global health has changed since you were born
Design Week Visualizations for a design survey
Digital Arts Apocalypse when?
Fast Company See your life through the lens of history
Creative Bloq Find out how we're all going to die
BBC America Visualizing Doctor Who
London Design Festival 2016 Design-led data visualization
Selected books we feature in
Data-driven Storytelling by Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Sheelagh Carpendale Introduction to data-driven storytelling
The Book of Circles by Manuel Lima 'Stock Check' visualization
Data Visualization for Success by Steven Braun Interviews with 40 experienced designers