Flagstories is an analysis of world flags according to layouts, colours, similarities, proportions, age, complexity, history, meaning and symbolism.
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This animated data visualisation highlights places in the United States of America which are named after words in the constitution. It deliberately evolves slowly, gradually allowing the reader to...
Using Tableau and Mapbox to map 100 years of Platypus sightings in Tasmania. This map highlights where further areas of protection are needed to help protect this wonderful species.
Explore African literacy statistics with a focus on Nigeria's status as an educational giant. This Tableau dashboard visually presents key insights and trends, shedding light on the nation's...
Visualising Jane Austen's people, places and plots:
Jane Austen died 200 years ago, but her novels have never been more popular. But what goes into a Jane Austen novel? And what gets left out?
In 2017, FiveThirtyEight published "The Ultimate Halloween candy power ranking" in an attempt to help trick-o-treat victims survive this frightful night unscathed. The author set out to rank 85...
The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...
We were fortunate to find an amazing dataset on this one, since there was very little we had to do in terms of data cleaning. The original map, which showed the present abortion access at the time,...
This visualization (interactive version here) is a musical history of one of my favorite artists: Bruce Springsteen. It focuses on his 200 songs and 17 original studio albums over a 45 year career....
We wanted to create something that captures all the drama, struggles, and highlights of the baseball season. We ended up with something that was part data visualization experiment, part...
This work is a scientific information chart, its main popular science object is Salt Lake.
This infographic mainly introduces the related knowledge of salt lake by taking "chaka salt lake" in...
The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013.
By the end of 2020, about 100 million additional people are projected to find themselves in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day. Millions more are slipping into less extreme poverty...
In 2012, over 2,400 Palestinian Prisoners mounted a hunger strike against the Israeli military for detention without trial. –Hunger Strikes' was created as one Palestinian administrative detainee,...
To understand the historical polarity of our two major US political parties—Republicans and Democrats—this visualization uses data from voteview.com and leverages DW-NOMINATE scores, a...
Commercial companies like SpaceX are starting to gain traction in the space industry. There are currently more than a dozen private rocketscapsules and spaceplanes under development, with more on...
Last year, I made a series of visualizations based on playlist data from my favorite local radio station: KEXP. Well, it’s a new year and there’s new data, so here I go again! First, let’s start...
3D rendering of weather model output. The viewer floats above the sea, and focuses on a cloud system which formed over an island. The black "arrows" visualise rain falling out of the cloud. Where...
An infographic looking at two of Ben Stokes finest test innings for England. The comparison looks at the 135 scored vs Australia and the 258 against South Africa in 2016.
This iconographical alphabet is the result of more than a decade of research and design. In his travels throughout the world, Graphic designer Jean-Benoit Levy discovered that the language of...
One day I decided to analyze how much time I spend with my iPhone. I calculated the data for July 2020. As a result, I decided not only to reduce the time in social media, but also to turn the...
Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.
How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...
How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify.
This project looks at the decline...
32 Questions for DeRay Mckesson was commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art as part of Now, my retrospective exhibition touring the United States.
The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...
In early 2019, The Economist built a demographic model using 90,000 individual survey responses from YouGov to calculate an individual’s probable attitude to each of three possible Brexit options:...
Budget cuts can be a little befuddling, which is why for the 2015 Spending Review we wanted to create something that was easily accessible and understandable for everybody – whilst still being...