For nearly 190 years, animal welfare charity, the RSPCA have given hundreds of millions of animals better lives, including rescuing them from unacceptable situations and finding them new homes. As part of this action, the RSPCA has created have made five key pledges to improve the lives of millions of animals over the next five years.

Visual Evolution, London was asked to help create a series of infographics to help support this new charity campaign, and we worked with the RSPCA to create a series of five visualisations concentrating on each of the pledges that had been made.

You can visit the pledge website here: http://www.rspca.org.uk/in-action/pledges/

Anybody who has been following our blog from the start, knows that we tend to spend a lot of time visualizing and creating infographics on football. As a response to this, we decided to create a “sports wing” of Visual Evolution, London which would concentrate solely on the subject of football infographics.

Named The Bootiful Game: http://www.bootifulgame.com, the site will act as a playground for our designers to create football infographics in their spare time, without taking up valuable space and time over here!

Below is a sample of the sort of information you may find there, but please check out the website at http://www.bootifulgame.com if sports data is your sort of thing.

We were commissioned by the lovely folks at Shortlist magazine to produce an infographic looking at the instant reactions to the resignation of Fabio Capello.  By scraping a large volume of data from twitter we were able to create an infographic showing the public reaction to the news, as well as a few additional bits of data that emerged as football fans first heard about the news.

The article can be viewed here:  http://www.shortlist.com/home/capello-resignation-the-infographic

At Visual Evolution, we like nothing better than getting our teeth stuck a nice juicy infographic about sports.
Our friends over at www.collegesportsscholarships.com in California, had seen some of our previous sporting data visualisations, and thought our style was right for their study into the injustices behind the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in the USA.

For any confused Brits, reading about the BCS for the first time, it is a ridiculously structured American Football tournament, intended to create five games featuring ten of the top-ranked college football teams in the United States. Rather than relying on direct competition to decide which teams should compete in these five games, the BCS relies on a combination of polls and computer selection methods to determine relative team rankings. The entire tragically flawed system is generally regarded as confusing, corrupt, unsporting and wildly unpopular.

The upshot of this system is poor quality games, unfair distribution of money, huge taxpayer subsidies for financial losses, obscene wages at the top, an un-American system of crowning a champion and a system where smaller, unpopular sides are never given a chance to become champions.

For the sake of sports fans everywhere, let’s hope the system gets changed soon.

We were delighted once again to be asked by City & Guilds Centre for Skills and Development to help them with some infographic design work for their most recent research document. The graphics were used within a report entitled, “Urban agriculture and employability skills” and were included to visualise data and key findings from the document.

CSD has conducted a review of the evidence on how involvement in community projects which grow food in urban areas can help people to develop employability skills and ultimately find work.

> The full report can be downloaded here.

This infographic takes a look at the changing attitudes of the over 50s in their approach towards, spending, travel, and outlook on life.

Over the last few decades, age has become less of a predictive agent across many consumer fields but broad differences in the needs and attitudes of various ages will never entirely disappear.

The swell of older consumers is one of the most important emerging social phenomena shaping the UK consumer landscape today. Alongside, the concept of old age is undergoing a serious cultural reassessment as age barriers weaken and opportunities for older people blossom. Undoubtedly, this is going to revolutionise how marketers wish to segment or target older consumers; it is likely a more age inclusive approach will emerge and find commercial favour.

An infographic looking back at Arsenal striker, Robin van Persie’s 100 goals for the football club.
As featured on the official Arsenal website:
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/robin-van-persie-100-goals-infographic

The rather wonderful “Compare the Leagues” website – http://comparetheleagues.com has produced a tool enabling users to compare various statistics for the top 20 European football leagues, as ranked by UEFA. The website is hugely efficient at sorting and displaying the data, but here we have tried to put a bit of beauty back into the numbers.

Categories for comparison, here and on the website include UEFA ranking (UEFA coefficient), European titles won (Champions League, former European Cup, Europa League, former UEFA Cup, former Cup Winners’ Cup) as well as average goals per game in every league, the probability of games ending without goals, as draws / home wins / away wins, a comparison of average football player age across the European leagues, the percentage of players currently playing in a country they weren’t born in, and also various stats about stadium attendances.

Visual Evolution, London were delighted to be involved in the creation of two infographic maps on behalf of City & Guilds Centre for Skills and Development.  The maps were used within a report entitled, “Bridging the divide: Connecting training to jobs in post-conflict settings.” and were included to visualise data and key findings from the document.

The report explains why ex-combatants often struggle to secure jobs following their training and how implementing agencies and training providers can better connect training to jobs in the future. It also provides recommendations for policy makers and researchers.

> The full report can be downloaded here.

The BBC Sport website recently published its “Price of Football” survey which worked out the cost of enjoying a day at the football for fans without season tickets. The study identified those clubs offering supporters the best value for money, and showed where football could be watched most cheaply. The survey looked at: the cost of match tickets, programme prices, and the cost of tea and a pie.

In our study, we have reinterpreted the BBC data, and combined its findings with Opta’s statistical analysis, to try and offer some insight into value for money, this time, in terms of entertainment. By combining the two sets of data, we hope to demonstrate which clubs offer fans the best value. Not just the cheapest day at a Premier League football match, but also, potentially the most exciting one.