As of today, 59 women have been to space. In honor of International Women’s Day, I used the upcoming Mapbox Studio dataset editor and Mapbox GL JS to visualize where each astronaut is from and more...
I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria:
Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...
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...
The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...
Ghost Waste is an interactive installation to attract and to make people familiarize with the problems of ecomafia in an easy way. The observer can thus ‘physically touch’ the problem, activating...
32 Questions for DeRay Mckesson was commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art as part of Now, my retrospective exhibition touring the United States.
The average office worker productivity is now 84% higher than it was forty years ago, and the transformation of our workspace may have provided a helpful hand.
From the classic Knoll to the...
In July 2016, the BBC asked 177 film critics from 36 countries around the world to list their 10 favourite films of the century so far. Here are the top 100* films by critical consensus, analysed...
When a company or government agency suffers a data breach, the number of records they say were lost are often preliminary estimates, whether they say so or not. Typically, the investigation has...
In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...
Over the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
Hundreds of thousands of drivers, millions of users and rides, billions in VC funding. After seeing the explosive growth of rideshare companies in India, in spite of so many challenges, the...
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...
The Power Players is an interactive browser and data visualisation of the key stories from the Panama Papers leak. It was commissioned from Kiln by the International Consortium of Investigative...
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.
Data Selfie is a Chrome browser extension that I used to track myself while I interact – click, type, scroll, dwell – with content on Facebook and that predicts various personality traits and...
This was a semester long project that was created during my studies at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. This project shows the impacts trough deforestation. From the...
The artwork shows on the left side the refugees who fled from their country of origin from 1980 to 2015, while on the right side the nations that have given asylum to refugees. The nations that...
I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...
Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.
In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.
We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...
There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...
The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?