Gallery: News + Bubble chart

Guardian interactive diagram showing proportion of words devoted to particular themes during Gordon Brown's speech to US congress (March 2009).

Total UK government public spending, by department. The area of the circles represents the total spend, and the colours are used to distinguish the different departments

Presidential Vote Margin by County for Pennsylvania, 2008.

This is a very rich infographic that combines several visualisation types: bubble chart, population pyramid, comparative line charts, a map, pie charts and it is additionally fully annotated. The picture itself is crossed by a line (without reference axis) that communicates the main message of the infographic: the rapid population growth experienced by the UK in recent decades. The supplementary charts display information about population proportions, population densities, age and gender structure, comparison between migration related and “natural” population change, fertility rates during the last 35 years and lastly population changes by government region during 2007-08. The display is very rich and is successful at grabbing’s the reader’s attention by offering an appealing combination of related data.

County level 2008 US presidential election returns.

Bubble map comparing landmass and population to measure population density. The outer bubble depicts area(sq km) and the inner bubble depicts population. The larger the inner bubble relative to the outer bubble, the higher the level of population density.

US political party affiliation for each religious tradition - bubble size shows percentage of religion affiliated with chosen party.

Comparison of peak sales and 2008 sales for various G.M. brands.