Nature interview

Our cofounder Duncan Clark is quoted in this piece in Nature Climate Change on telling science stories with data graphics.

Founders Forum

Today we’ve been telling the tech world about out forthcoming data viz platform Flourish at Founders Forum. It was a privilege to share a stage with some extraordinary inventors and luminaries, including huge names such as Eric Schmidt.

Data Journalism Awards 2016

We're thrilled to be on the shortlist for the 2016 Data Journalism Awards, organised by the Global Editors Network. Our Shipmap.org is one of four contenders in the category Best Data Visualisation, Small Newsroom.

Shipmap

Our new project – a global map of cargo shipping made with UCL from a quarter of a billion data points – is now live at shipmap.org. Nice to see such a great response on Twitter – including from Bill Gates!

The Panama Papers

Kiln is very proud to be part of Panama Papers: the giant data-journalism project launched all over the world’s news media today. We worked with the ICIJ to produce The Power Players - an interactive browser showcasing all the key stories in the biggest leak in history.

WHO+Talkie

Our WHO road-accident map now has a Talkie audio introduction and various other features. Check it out!

The EU IF Index 2016

Our interactive visualisation of the Intergenerational Foundation’s 2016 EU Index – which measures how nations are helping or failing young people – has just launched.

The financial inclusion map

We've just launched a project for the Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network – a multimedia hexagon catogram map exploring financial inclusion and exclusion around the world.

BigBangData

Two Kiln projects created for the Guardian will be featured at the upcoming Big Bang Data exhibition in London’s Somerset House, running from December 3 to February 28.

Death on the roads

Our interactive map for the World Health Organisation just launched. Interested journalists can find out more in this webinar on November 12.

New projects

This month we launched The Non-Gas Map – a hugely data-rich map created with National Grid and the Department for Energy and Climate Change; and published a mini-project for SciDev.net as part of their work on ‘ditital divide’.

Data Journalism Awards 2015

We are thrilled to have won the Small Newsroom award at the 2015 Data Journalism Awards, run by the Global Editors Network and sponsored by Google and the Knight Foundation.

Webby!

Our First World War interactive documentary, created in collaboration with the Guardian, won the people’s choice award for Best Use of Video at the 2015 Webby Awards.

First World War wins Digital Media Europe Award

Our interactive World War I documentary for the Guardian won the Online Video category at the DME Awards last night.

Two Webby nominations

Two Kiln projects created for the Guardian have just been shortlisted for the Webby Awards, in the video and animation categories.

New Kiln training days

The latest round of public Kiln training days – to be held in London in March – are now open for booking. See below for details.

Kiln projects win OnThinkTank data viz prizes

Two recent Kiln projects, one created for WRI and one created for IPPF have won the first and second prizes for interactives at the OnThinkThanks Data Visualisation Competition. A third Kiln project – created for the IIED – was also included on the shortlist of five.

Visualising a century and a half of carbon emissions

Our new project created for the World Resources Institute was just published on the WRI website and on the Guardian.

Mais idiomas!

To mark Armistice Day, the Guardian has relaunched our First World War, and with an extra language, Portuguese. We've also added Portuguese and Spanish to The Carbon Map.

Information is Beautiful Awards

We’re delighted to see two Kiln projects on the shortlist for the 2014 Information is Beautiful Awards.

The all-new Carbon Map

The Carbon Map, Kiln’s first project, has been redesigned and refreshed with the latest data. The new version has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since being featured on the Guardian.

Kiln shortlisted for ONA

Our In Flight project has been shortlisted for the Online Journalism Awards.

Kiln WWI project launches in seven languages

Our latest project launched today on many leading newspapers around the world. “First World War” is an interactive documentary created in partnership with the Guardian to mark the centenary of the Great War.

The project aims to give a global perspective on an imperial war that involved in soldiers from all over the world – from India and New Zealand to the US and Canada. Available in seven languages, it launches today on the Guardian and partner outlets such as El Pais, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Stampa.

Student Mobility visualisation now live

Our visualization of student mobility into and out of the UK, created for The British Council, is now live, and was featured today by Times High Education.

World Cities map published

The latest of a set of little Kiln projects for the International Institute for Environment and Development: a map showing the growth of cities over time. Try sorting to grid view and scrolling ahead to 2025 to see how Asia takes over.

Kiln wins Data Journalism Award!

We are delighted to announce that Kiln won a 2014 Data Journalism Award this evening from the Global Editors Network. We won the Small Newsroom Award for our portfolio of work from the last year. Other winners included The New York Times and Pro Publica. Read more about the programme here.

Kiln at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Our In Flight project is being featured this week at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, as part of the festival’s official selection.