“Satellites Charts” examines current and past artificial satellites orbiting around Earth, pointing out how our terrestrial life became so dependent on what we sent out in space. With topics...
Making with Data is a physical data-driven papercraft sculpture that serves as the cover of our upcoming book, “Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data Driven World.” The paper waves...
Hear The Blind Spot is a data sonification experience that champions greater digital inclusion for visually impaired people in Ethiopia. It tells the story of a visually-impaired young woman called...
I learned last summer that the rescue dog who accompanied one of my favourite YouTube musicians had died. To pay tribute to her (and him), I made a slightly whimsical series of charts showcasing...
Together with the cultural city lab RAUM, we curated an event that engages people with data on different mediums. We devised a concept of ‘circus show’ which created a deeper understanding of the...
The number of cases is rising, more and more people are dying and yet: we read and write mainly about statistics and hardly about people. How can we bring humanity back to the emotionless...
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...
This infographic was an experiment in visualizing the flow of emotions in Edgar Allan Poe's iconic poem, The Raven. Using the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon to identify the prevalent...
This set of experimental information visualisations employs a 'genre-blending' approach (mixing fact with fiction) to communicate the complexity of human interventions in the natural...
2020 forced many of us into survival mode (think empty toilet paper shelves), and heightened our awareness of how vulnerable we actually are to securing basic necessities. This map documents all of...
‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...
Since music albums with cover art became the standard during the vinyl era, these two have become inextricably attached. Now, in the streaming era of digital distribution, a new call is open to...
This piece was created for 2022's Lunar New Year and used 42 mini line charts superimposed on the image of a tiger to give an overview of recent positive news during a time when I was often driven...
Did you know that more than 1,900 edible insects are consumed around the world? Did you also know that there are 1,400,000,000 to 1 insects for every person on Earth? This visualization is an ode...
Early marriage has been on the rise in Jordan. To understand the issue better Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO) collected data about mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes towards early marriage as...
A tool that enables readers to model nearly any seashell they can imagine, all based on the same parametric equation. Nature is full of mathematical principles, and this is one illustration meant...
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...
This is a data art collection of 4 + 1, both hiding and revealing data about some of the most important elements that we humans (now) need to live; Earth, Water, Air, Sun + Digital. They all stem...
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...
I discovered a new Korean snack spot in Toronto called Chungchun Rice Hotdog. The rice hotdogs are made of a chewy rice flour batter that’s deep fried with a hotdog in the middle. During my first...
I spent an amazing vacation on the island of La Palma in 2019. And as a memento, I wanted to keep something else besides photos. So I collected statistics about the trip and made a set of five...
An experiment in cognition pitting human choice (with emotion) against machine random choice (without emotion). Explore the irrational aspects of human thinking behind the process and the answers....
Much of our Universe is too distant for anyone to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to understand what objects in our Universe are like in different types of...
Can sound and visuals be used in tandem to accurately convey what chronic migraines feel like to someone who has never had the experience? What can a migraine look like? Sound
like? Is there a...
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...
A set of two plates — a gift for a loved one — tells how we corresponded during 2019. How many messages we sent each other in different periods of the year
This map depicts what the actual geography looks like when my family is all on a zoom call together, i.e. all "in" the family room at the same time. The map layers the ~.3 mile radius road networks...
One day I decided to analyze how much time I spend with my iPhone. I calculated the data for July 2020. As a result, I decided not only to reduce the time in social media, but also to turn the...
This visual, inspired by a Du Bois visualization from the 1900 Paris Expo, tracks the birthplaces of the Tuskegee Airmen to their base in Europe, reversing the path of slave trade shown in Du...
This project explores our experience listening to an audio mashup. The visual syncs data gathered from the sample's position in the source material to a visual of a sun at points of the day. I...