2020 News
Was All So Bad, But Maybe
Less Bad as Haikus?
Prompting and visualizing 2,700 gloomy haikus about news events from 2020 (from ~2,000 authors on Mechanical Turk), forever...
I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...
It often seems we're having two conversations about climate change, one about the science, and one about the politics — with the audience left trying to join the dots between the two. This story...
The explosion of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at 1.23am on 26 April 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The dose of radiation released by this disaster was...
At Avodato we have been collecting data about how the Internet is interconnected during the last months to do some basic data exploration and create some basic visualizations about how the internet...
Climate change is an increasingly significant phenomenon and it’s likely to become irreversible. In this website, we analyzed how the international community is acting to mitigate the human...
The map centres on the North Pole with the black circle representing Earth's northern hemisphere. The dark blue represents the minimum extent of sea ice in the Arctic in 1980. The mid blue...
Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...
This project represents a data art system that I made for Sony Music Entertainment to create data-driven re-imaginations of the ‘Gold record’, the record certifications plaques that celebrate...
How much debt has been racked up by governments? This stunning infographic shows each country's share of world debt, along with their debt-to-GDP ratio.
We looked at the Best Picture winners from the past 90 years and analysed the number of nominations in other Oscar categories that they received in that year (nominations, not necessary...
This is a dot density map of religious identity across Greater London. Using data from the 2011 Census, I was able to represent each person as a single dot - that's almost 7 million for London...
The Historical Marker Database tracks the location of markers that identify where historical events occurred. Many markers have since been reported, and in some cases confirmed, as missing. This...
This book closes the gap between what people think Excel can do and what they can achieve in the tool. Over the past few years, recognition of the importance of effectively visualizing data has led...
The History of Space Exploration is hard to capture in one place, let alone define! Here you can view at a glance the growth of space exploration across countries and time.
Space exploration...
You may think buying that particular color shirt or houseware item was your decision, but color analysts and forecasters actually anticipated the color you may choose a few years in advance. Here’s...
The visualization was made for the TidyTuesday weekly challenge. I experimented with different kind of maps and charts. I ended up using points on a spiral, which reminds of a tornado and shows the...
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...
Russian interference in the presidential election and the investigation into alleged collusion with the Trump campaign has drawn comparisons to Watergate, with the appointment of an independent...
Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...
Two of the images show every goal scorer, visually linked to their respective teams whilst one of the images shows all the players from the tournament together with hi-lighted goal scorers.
This Eurovision chart looks at which countries have given the most points to the winner over the years - showing that whilst UK hasn't had success in winning for a long time, it is the 'best' at...
A few years ago, my kids were taking very long showers. I wanted a way to explain to them how important water is and should be used sparingly but in a very simplified way that they could relate,...
What if we could see a baseball player's offensive stats all at once? These are radar charts, but try to think of them as fingerprints of offensive output.
Completed as part of the #VizforSocialGood community project, this data visualization showcase the amazing work of Video Volunteers, a non-profit organization focused on empowering India's most...