This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...
We used 3D modelled cylinders to represent the victims of sexual abuse in the UK's National Health Service recorded by health trusts. Working collaboratively to a tight deadline we used stark...
Last April was the 50 years anniversary of the first call done by Martin Cooper using the first mobile phone in history, which was big as a brick.
I wanted to find out more about that first model,...
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.
The advent of...
Part 1 of The Bat Lands. A recent Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana highlights how the thirst for resources is driving destruction of the world’s most biodiverse areas and putting humans in...
Algorithms are an increasing part of our everyday lives.
They are constantly making decisions about us, yet they rarely explain their reasoning.
In this story, opaqueness is used as a...
As the globe swelters under hotter and hotter temperatures, the simple surfaces around us can become a threat to human health. This piece explains the danger surfaces exposed to extreme heat pose,...
The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...
Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...
BROMACKER project combines paleo research and science communication at the excavation site in the UNESCO Geopark Thuringia Inselsberg - Drei Gleichen, at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, at the...
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Though the idea that playful learning should have a central role in schools is gaining traction, the reality—apart from early childhood and recess—is that learning through...
"Tree of Life" portrays global life expectancy. Its central feature is a chord chart shaped like a tree, where each branch symbolizes a continent, branching further into countries. The size of each...
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) interface is the cornerstone tool of the medical consultation, through which clinicians review, collect, interpret and curate patient data. Widespread criticism...
The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...
Feeling hangry? From food cravings to brain fog, blood sugar spikes may be the cause. Graphics team members Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo teamed up to create this illustrated (and meticulously...
A Streamlit app to create interactive temperature and precipitation graphs for places around the world.
We know that global warming is real. But how have temperatures developed in different...
I developed this data visualization to highlight the 20-year gap in life expectancy across regions - a phenomenon the United States hasn't experienced in nearly 50 years. I wanted to show the...
Merck can trace its roots all the way back to the seventeenth century when Friedrich Jacob Merck opened up shop as an apothecary in a small city in what is today southern Germany.
After the...
The dashboard serves to illustrate the trends and attributes of blood donor activity in Malaysia. The availability of an ample supply of blood is of importance for the efficient functioning of the...
A visualization of the spread of the novel Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 through Europe. (September 2022)
After more than two years of living with the pandemic of the new Corona virus Sars-CoV2 one...
In the wake of the rapid advancements of AI technologies and multiple reports of their issues, regulation efforts are currently catching up. Hence, I wanted to visualize the current progress of...
How does it feel to not hear? According to Xu Kaifeng, a person with near-total deafness, living in a world without sound feels like you don't exist at all. For those with healthy ears, it's hard...
Happiness is a deeply personal experience, yet everyone pursues happiness. Growing up in Beijing and living across the globe sparked my curiosity about the ways different cultures perceive and live...
In partnership with Hopelab, the Koko team turned to Data Culture to showcase the proven benefits of their enhanced crisis response tool. Using both CDC data, and results from Koko’s peer-reviewed...
Graphics team members Carlie Procell and Janet Loehrke teamed up to create this combined explanation of science and astrological phenomena.
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This work started as a hobby data exploration done in the 3d software Houdini about a single glacier (the Careser) that I have a personal connection with – I climbed the Mt Cevedale several years...
Information opium is a phenomenon of social media addiction, which manifests itself in the form of being addicted to all kinds of information in social media, thus adversely affecting one's...
Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.
Humans are driving this...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently released their “State of World Population 2023” report. This report, produced by a group of external advisers, researchers and writers, working...
Toronto-area schools provide vaccination rates for the Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine.
The Toronto Public Health staff work with schools to show that students have either been...