In order to turn music into numbers (which could then be visualized), we decided on the topic of speed drumming — specifically how some of metal’s most accomplished percussionists stacked up...
Dawes’s work, Cinema Redux, inspired us to take a serious look at how one would go about quantifying the amount of ‘redness’ that pervaded the Chinese media. Would the resulting outcome help to...
Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world. The...
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average...
Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a...
What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.
The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...
People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise.
A network, in...
Using the form of infographic design to visualize the abstract concept of memory, this picture explains how memory is transmitted between neurons where synapse plays an important role and shows the...
The Financial Inclusion Map explores differing access to and use of financial services around the world. It visualises data from the World Bank using a unique interactive hexagon cartogram map. A...
The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices.
The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...
Timescapes is a series of photographs and videos that document the patterns and algorithms that define places. This project uses "slit-scanning," wherein a photo medium is exposed in a single...
We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...
Government, statistics & data visualisation? What’s going on here then?
For years the UK Office for National Statistics releases lacked imagination; yet there was so much potential to inform...
Galileo's Impact On Modern Science
According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...
Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...
The design work is based on my students' work of Data Visualization Design. using daily records of emotional impression, my expectations on homework, and feedback as data to make a re-information...
This infographic shows bounds and cooperations between several actors involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris and Bruxelles from Daesh.
A map and a chart describe their movements outside and...
An explorable 3D landscape built using data from an analysis of Grimm's folktales. I identified words in the stories that stood out against common English and used this to generate a landscape on...
As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...
These two infographics were part of a series of infographics I created for the book "Wedged" by Erik Fogg and Nathaniel Greene (available on Amazon, the abortion infographic is the only one...
By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.