The Korean war was a bloody battle that lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. It was a conflict caused by a divided peninsula, in which both sides wanted reunification but retaining their...
Climate change is a very hot topic nowadays. We are facing extreme weather events more and more frequently. Unusual temperatures, excess rainfall or extremely strong winds, forest fires disrupt our...
9/11 came as a gift to NSA, giving them more power and freedom to have mass surveillances illegally. And not just through eavesdropping on our phones, they’ve found a new weapon to invade our...
As a Chinese-Canadian, I am always thinking of fun ways to learn Chinese. I have developed a method of learning Chinese characters from songs. The overall learning process can be both fun and...
Hudson Yards in NYC has arrived to many mixed reviews, but how it's new art venue The Shed performs remains to be seen. Is it filling a void, or entering a glut? Here's a snapshot of it in context...
It is a commonly held belief that Hong Kong is blessed with a relatively large number of public holidays to compensate for employers traditionally limiting their workers’ annual leave. Marco...
This is a data story.
After ogling The Pudding’s data story on ‘Gastronomic Borders in the US’, I wondered what the food preferences of Indians look like. The following data story is an effort...
The Department of Energy & Climate Change asked TNS to produce an informative infographic based on consumer attitudes towards energy usage and the impact this has on the environment. This...
This visualisation explores the use of plastic bags in the UK. Specifically, I focus on legislation aimed at reducing plastic bag usage and what impact this has made.
The entrant has supplied an...
The growth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is alarming. This is a handmade visualization of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions for 1990, 2010 and projected for 2030. Three wearable creatures...
The campaign season has been a fire storm of insults, but was it really all that bad? A look back at American elections’ cheap shots, dirty tricks and October surprises. Personal Project 2020
As the Earth warms, stable conditions for winter sports that depend on ice and snow aren’t a guarantee. Steady snow might come later than usual and spring warming means snowpacks are melting...
At any one moment in time, thousands of measurements are being taken of the world’s weather. Across land, sea and sky, data is being gathered manually and automatically using a range of...
Using the 2012 Agricultural Census data, we sought to answer three related questions about U.S. Farm Size:
1. Do small farms really have greater crop diversity?
2. Do government payments...
THE BATTERY SERIES
The Battery Series is a five-part infographic series that explores what investors need to know about modern battery technology, including raw material supply, demand, and...
You’ve likely seen the population density map of the United States in one form or another. A lot of people per square mile reside in big cities, fewer people reside in suburban areas, and a lot...
This project uses satellite imagery to find the average colors of each US county across 2020. It was an awful year, and I found a form of solace in zooming out, ignoring all our human activities,...
We took up this project to explore movement of body in a deterministic practice of Yoga. A particular sequence in Yoga, called Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation, has been our starting point of...
Taohuawu New Year pictures are the folk wooden New Year pictures in jiangnan area of China. Taohuawu New Year paintings originated from the woodblock printing technology in the song dynasty and...
This project is part of the 2022 #30DayChartChallenge Day21 Timeseries: down/upwards. For this topic, we got curious about how Taiwan’s most iconic street snacks shifted in popularity over the past...
The Sankey-bump chart visualises the global agricultural land use by regions and consequently the increasing impact of us humans reflecting the rising population figures over the last decades and...
Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...
Formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications in 1989, Time Warner quickly became the world's largest media conglomerate, with divisions that include Warner Bros. Entertainment,...
Thangka is the unique fabric-painting art of Tibet, and few modern people know the origins and production processes of Thangka. I used the form of the temple city to explain the production process...
GCP SL, the first UK REIT to focus on student accommodation, celebrated their fifth birthday in 2018. We created a chronological timeline graphic to showcase the company’s achievements since...
Even though the meaning of song titles is not always literal and often don’t correlate to the actual lyrics, they’re the first thing we come across when choosing a song and it’s interesting to see...
Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...
Wovoka is the transparency and insights layer to the voluntary carbon offsets market. Our platform ingests project-level information from the 4 major offset registries in real time, merges it with...
NB: This project is only viewable on a mobile device in a portrait orientation.
High quality education comes at a price in China, a high price indeed. In 2008, Beijing reformed its middle school...