Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed lifestyles, personal habits, and created a deep chasm between “before” and “after.” We were interested in exploring how the pandemic affected people’s...
The measurements of "success" in networked social media do not render visible the actual importance of #MeToo or the broader phenomenon of structural sexual violence. In crucial ways, the structure...
FinDev Canada opened in 2018 with the goal of supporting the growth and sustainability of businesses in developing markets. After only two years of operations, they were ready to present their...
We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings.
We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...
Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data...
The annual number of deaths of children under 5 years of age around the globe decreased from 19.6 million in 1950 to 5.4 million in 2017, a change of nearly 72%! Undoubtedly the decrease in child...
This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...
Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...
A collaborative research effort between three organizations — Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), Duke University, and North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield (NCBCBS) — intended to shed light on...
This data visualization provides insights on the attrition trends in an organization with several breakdowns by department, job role, demographics, and survey scores. The glassmorphism design and...
This project is a visual essay called Game of Words. In it, I analyze and present narrative patterns in Russian state media during the war in Ukraine in a scrollytelling format. These findings...
MTA Ridership Changes due to COVID-19 recounts what happened to New York City during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Data visualization agency TWO-N began the project wanting to create...
MLB announced in December 2020 that it would officially designate the Negro Leagues as “major leagues.” This decision adds those players into MLB’s official stats and changes some of the game’s top...
Storylanding dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 'Kursk' submarine disater unveiling an unofficial version of the tragedy.
According to the official version, the sailors’ deaths were accidental,...
Imagine there is a new universal eco-rule: that the right to easily enjoy beach access derives from your plastic waste management. The more plastic you feed the ocean, the farther you walk to the...
"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...
Information and Violence is an interactive data visualization showing a timeline of major U.S. news headlines along with monthly gun sales and homicides counts from 2016 to 2021. Since 2016, the...
Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...
Many of us grew up playing Spades. But very little information exists on how the card game developed and grew to become a fixture in African-American households. This Spades project is an attempt...
Heartbeats. is an info-art piece to make the heartbeats of animals visible and audible. More than 150 species of animals are going extinct every day. Perhaps considering the beating, breathing...
An exploration of the most common searches in Google related to what we dream about. More details: https://medium.com/@frcfr/visualizing-the-shape-of-dreams-for-google-trends-5164c3c4e382
Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths in America from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the...
In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...
Hello. I am a book.
But I’m also a portal to the universe.
I have 112 pages, measuring 20cm high and wide. I weigh 450g. And I have the power to show you the wonders of the world.
I'm...
When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore.
As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...
Imagine escaping home and embarking on a dangerous sea voyage to find refuge, only to realise that another nightmare has just begun. This is the reality for Rohingya refugees who flee from Myanmar...
Yaps and fin slaps, growls and groans—whales use a wide range of sounds to communicate. But only five whale species are known to sing, with humpbacks the unrivaled musical masters of the sea. This...
In 2019, we were contacted by Ilmueo, a data science company, to collaborate with them in finding a way to create a powerful visual experience that highlighted all projects that they have done...
Pagodas were introduced to China with Buddhism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. They have changed significantly in form, structure, material, layout, and function over a long...
This visual explanation demonstrates how COVID-19 tracing apps can break infection chains and preserve users' privacy. We felt that the public discourse surrounding digital contact tracing lacked a...