What we search for reveals something of ourselves: our interests, our fears, our curiosity, or simply what we have forgotten. And it's not just what we search for, as how we search reveals...
In a society riddled with little to no minority representation in media and academics, this infographic brings to life the recognition of underrepresented racial groups. As civil rights movements...
In Nice to Meet You, we visualize measures of ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity across 250 countries and territories in the world. We intuitively understand that what...
Ten days after launching a quiz in which iROZHLAS.cz readers could compare their estimates of Czechs with real statistics, they gathered 41,000 individual answers. What did the readers...
ADI Design Museum presents "Bìos - Sistema Design Italia," a video installation project created in collaboration with POLI.design - Sistema Design Politecnico di Milano and ADI Design...
Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...
In today’s rapidly changing world, the way children experience their surroundings is also changing fast. As the world is increasingly becoming more digital, globalized, and diverse, childhood is...
Connecting Speckles is a data selfie. A data selfie is a visual representation of oneself with an underlying narrative or theme of what the individual wants to convert about themselves or a...
The International Mother Language Day is celeberated to promote linguistic and cultural diversity. This project explores the Bengali language. A movement for the conservation of Bengali language a...
This project stems from a Datatón focused on childhood and adolescence in Mexico in 2023. It is aimed at researchers, decision-makers, and individuals with an interest in obtaining preventive...
This visualization shows the data of 2193 journalists and media workers from all over the world who had been murdered, killed in crossfire and combat, or on dangerous assignments over the past...
When British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team ventured into a previously overlooked tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, they would eventually uncover three layers of coffins; in the final,...
For a whole year, Konda surveyed people in Turkey. After analyzing the data, they clustered life style groups, demographics, and other choices like cultural activity participation and alcohol...
With the release of the annual health report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I looked at the subcategories of mortality, as defined by the World Health Organization, focusing...
Ever wonder if we can quantify a gender bias in society?
Using machine learning, we can generate word associations present in a given media source. By looking at those associations we can tell...
Fear wields significant influence in our daily existence, often operating beneath our conscious awareness. Many of our choices stem from the instinctual urge for self-preservation and the desire to...
In many languages the word for dad sounds similar. This led researchers to believe that it was due to a baby’s speech progression. For example sounds like baba or papa are easy to make for a small...
This data visualization is an encoded self-portrait. It is an interactive piece of data art that explores the concept of Intersectional feminism and the Matrix of Dominance. Using the metaphor of a...
President Donald Trump announced July 27th that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces.
The decision reversed a policy...
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...
In 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.”
Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...
A perfect hourglass is almost unheard of for plus sized fit. The majority of plus sized women identify with more disproportioned sizing that makes finding the perfect fit in tailored clothes almost...
The mighty Habsburg empire helped to shape the cities, sights and stories of much of present-day Europe.We map four cross-continental sites where its impact has been felt most keenly, from the...
Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective.
The...
Population ageing, driven by rising life expectancy, is a problem in all developed countries. Our interactive visualisation enables users to sort countries by life expectancy (purple circles). But...