The majority of Americans state that they trust data and are persuaded by claims supported by it. Yet, only one-third of the public is data literate. This creates a gap between the individuals...
Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.
“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...
Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling.
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Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world, impairing the vision of around 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are irreversibly blind. It is a health problem in around...
Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...
In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...
The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...
Urbanisation is something that can make or break your economic growth and general welfare.The goal of this visualisation is to inform policy makers and motivate them to invest more money in...
Asia is the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. But experts worry the continent is ill-equipped to handle the increasing traffic. Here are the major risks, illustrated through the course of a...
For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behaviour. The respondents gave information about...
Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
This project required me to create two posters that represented the activities of my day. One poster consists of my illustrations and the other poster is a typography piece.
Elephant ivory is now a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS...
In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.
This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States.
The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
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...
The US government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project blundered ahead ignoring history, culture and warnings of...
After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration. This interactive short documentary tells his...
Today’s AFL grand final players are the product of sports scientists on the quest for the perfect competitor.
The average grand finalist has certainly changed a lot over the years. ‘Mullets,...
With the Australian federal election drawing near, we set out to explain why Australians had varying levels of influence on the outcome.
We included various factors which could effectively...
Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...