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...
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...
On Sunday June 19th, 2022, the 27-year old Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick became a champion once again at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nine years after he won the U.S. Amateur title...
Rising Sea Levels: When, Where, and Who?
By 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line. 200 million.
Over the past 15 years, the global mean...
For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...
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...
Every year Novartis, Roche and about 60 other pharmaceutical companies pay a lot of money to doctors and hospitals. Now imagine that this world of pharma money was a universe: what would it look...
The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...
FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...
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...
Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...
This project was a response from a Design Council brief during our MA data visualization at LCC. We set out to reframe the story about the current and future state of the UK design economy drawing...
A team of data and graphics reporters spent months talking with experts, analyzing and visualizing historical tornado data, and creating detailed explanatory graphics in order to explain a shift in...
For the 2022 Salone del Mobile, Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) were commissioned to design a 1400 sq. m. centerpiece exhibition focused on the year’s theme of sustainability. We worked with the...
Why do new variants keep appearing? And why are we at risk of new outbreaks? Dive into the heart of SARS-CoV-2 and discover the surprising role of the spike protein.
The Omicron variant was...
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
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...
Metroverse is an urban economy navigator built at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. It is based on over a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify and offers a detailed look into...
Access to safe drinking water is essential for communities around the world. Regions without clean and accessible drinking water face serious economic and social challenges. 10 percent 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...
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...
In this article, we investigate about the castles that can be found in Spain, from the information collected by the spanish Nonprofit Association "Amigos de los Castillos" (there is no government...
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...
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...
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...
Total War is an illustrated account of the most pivotal historical episode of the 20th century: the Second World War. This authoritative, immersive account of a conflict that forever reshaped the...
It all began with a simple question, “Am I a reader or just another hoarder?”.
During the lockdown when all my belongings came to my house, I realized the number of books I owned. So, I decided...