What would David Bowie’s music look like through the lens of data visualization? This is what designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick set out to explore in OddityViz – a visual...

The ‘BFI Filmography’ is a collection of over 10,000 film titles condensed into one dashboard of interactive data visualisations. Launched in September 2017, it is the largest public searchable...

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...

How much, and how often do characters speak in nine famous Shakespeare plays?

"Mapping Dada" is a piece that uses the Wikipedia link structure, combined with a modified version of Google's 'PageRank' equation, to track the movement of Dada through history.

This piece uses musical notation to visualize songs in Disney animated feature films. It depicts when songs occur, how many times they occur and who they are sung by. From this, one can see...

The traditional graphic design standard books are mostly based on long text content. Boring and inconvenient, they are often hard to read. Therefore, Our Diagram of Graphic Design Specifications...

What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) asked me to create visualizations for a multiple-paged special on the Bayreuther Festspiele, an opera festival founded by Wagner. The graphs show some...

Are romantic movies always composed of happiness? Feelings are hard to be measurable on screen, but can we “watch” movie from unorthodox perspectives? This project is to visualize the sentiment in...

We looked through decades of rap lyrics and categorized every mention of Donald Trump and other presidential candidates, and presented the results with graphics, sound and an interactive database.

In the HBO megahit Game of Thrones, characters, houses, and allegiances continue to change as new kings and queens gain power, opposing sides do battle, and characters meet one another across the...

Collection of every job that was performed on the USS Enterprise in The Original Series listed by individual episodes. Main characters and the regular extra are shown with unique icons. All others...

Metal Underground imagines the sub-genres of heavy metal and related rock as nodes on a transit map with their relationships to each other traced out by subway, tram, and light rail routes. Route...

Created for a Cannes Lions panel—where Adam Bly, Spotify's VP Data, interviewed burlesque performer Dita Von Teese—this visualization shows how your music streaming habits offer a window into who...

What if Google searches were used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest? What countries would make the final and who would cry victory?  

It started with The Sex Pistols. Specifically, with The Sex Pistols’ June 4, 1976 show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. The concert now ranks as one of the most influential...

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...

Based on film budget, revenue and rating data, Film Money tells the story of the fickle relationship between business interests and public taste. Often demanding huge amounts of effort, manpower...

While experiencing the beloved "Fast and the Furious" films, one might ask: How fast? How furious? A scrappy team of Bloomberg designers and reporters meticulously analyzed the first seven movies...

How big a deal is an Oscar nomination? Most movies make the majority of their profits in the first few weeks after release. A nomination for the Oscars could change this dynamic dramatically,...

The Galactic Civil War — recently retold in the military history called Star Wars1 — pitted the Imperial Navy, one of the most sophisticated fighting forces in history, against the ragtag Rebel...

Christopher Nolan`s Thriller Memento deals with a man who suffers from a short-term memory loss, an alleged murder and the nature of the crime. Furthermore the component of vengeance is addressed....

Lata Mangeshkar is Bollywood's most prolific playback singer. In a career spanning 73 years, she recorded at least 5,401 songs. For Lata's 87th birthday, Hindustan Times made an interactive data...

At Spotify, we're interested in observing users’ behavior and inferring what that means about their relationship to music. This experimental project visualizes several months' worth of listening...

Visualizing La La Land's emotional roller coaster using Spotify data.

Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" has been played over 68,000,000 times, and makes up 99.5% of plays from his top 5 songs on Spotify.

This is an infographic narrative execution of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. It details Captain Willard's journey to meet Colonel Kurtz. Done for no other reason than the pleasure...

A timeline of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and which books each of the most popular characters appears in.

I visual guide to some of the most famous and memorable weapons in cinematic history.