For decades, everybody in the music business knew one thing: if you wanted to break a new artist, you had to get their songs played on the radio. But with the advent of streaming services, times...
When China’s Place Museum announced plans for a branch in Hong Kong the SCMP visited Beijing and Taipei to study the Forbidden City’s architecture, history and how the art collection was split...
Taking the winter solstice of the 24 solar terms as the main route, the traditional food culture of eating dumplings in the north and eating tangyuan in the south is introduced through the...
Do you know K-pop? Did you hear about BTS? You should have heard about them, or you may be regarded as out of date.
Korean pop culture, known as K-pop, is a genre of popular music originating in...
The Data Driven Experience opens the web page. You dive in and scroll back and forth along the timeline. The space you enter is divided into a left and a right sphere. On the left are the...
This table lists four groups of data from 31 provinces in China, including the total number of applicants in each year, the number of applicants in each province and the rate of admission. The...
This series of infographics was born from my growing obsession with data visualisation and my longtime love for the show Friends. I’ve been a fan of the TV series since I was old enough to watch...
This interactive visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one of the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. The visualisation depicts the corpus of author's literary...
This visualisation is to understand the current trends of students' adherence to the cuisine of their ethnicity in comparison to what they had in childhood when their parents cooked for them. It...
This visual exploration looks into the most common questions that people ask on Google to better understand the often weird and mysterious behavior of (our) cats and dogs. What “strange” behavior...
“Poltava, Сarl!” is a historical longread, filled with various maps, charts and pictures, dedicated to the 310th anniversary of the battle of Poltava. Both Russian and Swedish historians agrees on...
When the 10 Year Challenge hit social media in January 2019, I challenged myself to do a datafied version. One of the few personal data sources I have that goes back 10 years is my Last.fm logs and...
Insider asked thousands of "Game of Thrones" fans to vote for the best characters and performances on HBO's hit series using two simple matchup generators and asking readers on social media to...
This infographic analyzes the complex historical and cultural deposits in Chinese historical relics, and specifically explores the architectural, art, and historical background of Nanjing Ming's...
Museums are bastions of culture, they hold artifacts from all over the world. These artifacts hold different meanings to different people and some want their artifacts repatriated. Repatriation is...
Design is a common profession, but there is also big data behind it that is overlooked. This infographic shows the humorous daily life of the designer and some data, such as the frequent system...
The mysterious Red violin, the ellusive sound of the Stradivarius, the supernatural playing habilities of Paganini or the myths around Bach's unearthly Chaconne... No other instrument has caught...
This infographic is meant to visually portray the cuisines of 5 very different countries from around the world. Illustrations of each country's signature foods are housed on dinner plates, with...
A look at 20 of the most popular films and their similar five act story structure.
Using the TMDb movie database and The Script Lab's Five Plot Point Breakdown blog, I was able to look at the...
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...
This Eurovision chart looks at which countries have given the most points to the winner over the years - showing that whilst UK hasn't had success in winning for a long time, it is the 'best' at...
A web application that visually reconstructs the thoughts and feelings which occurred during a classical musical performance.
Keynote and documentation at...
Oil-paper umbrella is the traditional umbrella of the Chinese nation. It is made by natural hand and is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient Chinese. With the progress of science and...
The Colours of TinTin is an abstract representation of the 24 book covers of the 'Adventures of TinTin' and homage to 'Ligne Claire', a style of drawing pioneered by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi...
There is an international hype about health benefits of the Korean national dish known as kimchi. It is common knowledge that kimchi is rich in vitamins and minerals. Fair enough but there are at...
A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...
The Ching Ming Festival is not just a traditional Chinese cultural festival. It is the most sensational festival of the year for Chinese Zhuang people.