This piece looks at the newly released Google Quick, Draw dataset of over 50 million doodles and focuses on the length of time it takes the ameatur artists to draw a selection of these doodles. The...
Shipmap.org is an ambitious interactive WebGL map of commercial shipping movements based on hundreds of millions of data points from throughout 2012 (the most recent year for which all the raw...
EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and...
Flavour palettes of whisky can be complex, with many different tasting notes presenting themselves in a single dram. This visualisation, originally designed to be a poster, looks at the prevalence...
The project attempts to understand the water consumption in the Design hostels. The data was collected with the help of the warden of the hostels and the plumbers who maintain the same.
The...
In order to turn music into numbers (which could then be visualized), we decided on the topic of speed drumming — specifically how some of metal’s most accomplished percussionists stacked up...
Curbing global warming, halting the loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy are among the world’s most pressing needs. To track progress and reveal systemic obstacles to...
A visual representation of the number of Iraqis estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chart compares the official estimates against UK public...
This infographic shows a wide collection of writing systems, arranged accordingly to their respective phylogenetic relationships. Lines skirting the outer edge represent existing systems, while...
Baseball is arguably the most quantifiable data driven professional sport in the world. From the inception of the game, player performance has been quantified and the analysis has only grown more...
The subject of refugees and migrants is extremely sensitive and confusing. Who, why, when and how many? Should governments dictate the amount of migrants coming into Europe and where they should...
This visualization explores how 2022 Russian's invasion of Ukraine would shake European crude oil market as many European countries were reluctant to impose sanctions on Russian oil imports since...
This work demonstrates the distribution of wealth in the United States. A county-level household income dataset is used for the visualization. One county is represented as a circle, grouped by...
Each year, 1 in every 20 Americans racks up just as much in medical bills as another 19 combined. This critical five percent of the U.S. population is key to solving the nation's health care...
Melting glaciers make the impacts of global climate change visible. Because ice masses respond very slowly, the melting isn't directly linked to current climate conditions but is a result of...
Historic storms in California barely made a dent in a daily reality for most residents — a years-long, expansive drought. This long-scroll heat map shows the devastating drought California has...
For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...
"Praise Be" examines the usage frequency of common expressions found within "The Handmaid's Tale," as documented on Fandom.com. Within this dystopian realm, these devout utterances serve a dual...
In the world of education, innovation often arises from unconventional blends. "Drawing Data with Kids" is a testament to this fact, offering a refreshing approach to teaching data literacy. This...
The Banda Ultralarga (Ultrafast Broadband) Strategic Plan ("BUL") for Italy was announced in 2015 with a promise that by 2020, infrastructure to support broadband internet connection would reach...
Interactive poster was developed for a showcase exhibition in Zurich to get visitors to participate and create fun conversations. Based on the YAAY method for interactive visual data collection, we...
Hong Kong has been notorious for its poor living conditions for those with lower incomes, with more than 220,000 people squeezing themselves in the tiny subdivided flats. With the coronavirus...
The communications department of the High Line New York assigned me to design a datavisualization for their High Line Fall Members Magazine 2016. They provided me with a data-set of the artists...
Commissioned by Pingan technology, Emerge designed and built an interactive experience based around company’s patent records, aiming to make the data touchable and memorable. Using realtime...
Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean tragedies can easily be compared by visualising how the...
So, I decided to map some pub names.
Because, like chicken shops, streets and pizza chains, if we zoom out a bit, pub names tell us a bit about the geography, culture and history of the people...
I play a lot of Scrabble. My father introduced me to the game when I was 12 and we've played frequently ever since (25 years as of this writing). When my interest in data art and visualization was...