Standard solid-color blob maps of individual tree species show where a particular tree might be found; this is why they’re useful in field guides. But in order to show the higher-level patterns of...
The visualization shows the meals described in 49 novels. The descriptions and the novels have been selected by Dinah Fried, who has collected them in the book Fictitious Dishes: An Album of...
An interactive and exploratory data visualization of one month of my life. Data from multiple sources was combined to generate a single view demonstrating sleeping patterns, eating habits,...
The spread of COVID-19 has shed light on the issue of alarming lack of access to hospitals for those living in more sparsely populated regions of the country. While those in urban and eastern...
Beyond the most popular Chinatowns of major cities, including those of Manhattan, New York and San Francisco, California, the United States once contained over fifty self-described Chinatowns in...
During the time when I was learning about Minard's famous visualisation of Napoleon's battle gains and losses, I was also increasingly interested in battles for civil rights in the United States....
Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...
Deputy Head of Infographics for the South China Morning Post, Adolfo Arranz, uses historical data for his series of infographics about globalisation’s beginnings in the 16th century, when the...
What makes a great city? Is it political stability? Low crime rates? Access to education or healthcare? We took one metric, looking at how easy it is for people to move within cities. We calculated...
Analysis of over 100 years of Indy 500 races, with a focus on the changing speeds, going from an average of only 81mph in 1911 to a fastest of 190mph in 2021. Enjoy the analysis being told through...
This data visualisation shows programmes that were broadcast on the BBC in 2013 and 2014, and it shows the people who helped to make those programmes who worked in off-screen roles.
I created this system as a piece of functional information design for people that have difficulty with verbal communication, often as a result of disabilities such as autism or those that impact...
Many people think of forced displacement as a before-and-after situation: that displaced families move into an IDP camp that, despite their many challenges, are relatively stable. The reality is...
Search popularity, or how frequently a term is searched in proportion to all other queries for a given location, can reveal what excites or interests the underlying population.
This...
In December of 1997 Ana Orantes goes to television show in Canal Sur for tell her testimony, a history about gender-violene, years and years of domestic violence. That testimony was her sentence of...
For this project, I focused on the process of developing compelling narratives using information and data, accompanied by techniques primarily associated with audience. The consideration of the...
Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...
This project is part of my M.Sc. graduation thesis in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. The research is developed around the contemporary debate on LGBT parenting: a current, delicate...
Ever wonder which James Bond made the most money? How about which actor flirted with Moneypenny the most? Or who killed the most henchmen? I have. So I did what anybody would do: I sat down with a...
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...
The rocket tests of recent years show that North Korean missiles are no longer limited to targets across Asia. Their ultimate and preferred target, the US, is now within reach of its latest...
This information design project was inspired by a real-life medical case (Atrial Septum Defect), where the patient was a having a heart procedure to block a “hole” in her heart. I used cut paper to...
This (static) visualization shows the almost 3000 satellites that were still active in space around September 1st, 2020. By turning each satellite into a separate circle, but grouping them by the...
I turn music lyrics into sentiment data using the Google Natural Language API. I visualise this data in a scatter plot. After that, I remove all the axes and put the dots of the scatter plot on a...
Russian volunteers are searching through graveyards, archives and the internet to determine how many of the country’s soldiers have actually died in Ukraine. A database they helped build provides...