Tibetan Opera is called "Gillam", which means "fairy sister". According to legend, Tibetan opera was first performed by seven sisters, and the contents of the opera were mostly myths and stories in...

La La Land has tied Titanic and All About Eve as the most nominated films in Academy Awards history.

Dungeons and Dragons, the tabletop roleplaying game, has been having a moment in recent years, and in no small part thanks to D&D streaming shows, most notably Critical Role. Critical Role is a...

Radiohead has been my favorite band for a while, so I am used to people politely suggesting that I play something “less depressing.” Much of Radiohead’s music is undeniably sad, and this post...

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 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...

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...

This visualization focuses on the massively popular sitcom FRIENDS, to answer the following questions. Which episodes had the highest IMDB ratings? Which episodes had the most US...

This visualization on charity songs was created on invitation by Datasketch.es (Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer). While the subject was "community", I chose to visualize the (top contributing) charity...

This visualization was designed to look like a desk at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, the main location of the hit tv show "The Office". The visualization is presented from the perspective of...

The infographic shows the timeline of Leonardo Da Vinci's life, his scientific studies, major paintings, inventions, key historical events that took place during his lifetime, other artists of his...

The genius of Ali Wong’s Netflix special.

Show Your Kid How Old They Are on Jupiter, Mars With This Calculator They say age is just a number, but it turns out that number can range wildly depending on what planet you’re on. And thanks...

Eurovision is the biggest music competition in Europe. Countries send their artists and hope to get chosen by their fellow nations. In 2022, the selection of the Spanish Eurovision song was very...

Our group works mainly with illustrations to show the history of Chinese rice and developing rice varieties. From the discovery of early rice ruins in China to hybrid rice with high yield records...

A lo-fi visualization to illustrate using the language of data the expressive possibilities of developing a sensory-based technology for the digital fine artist. The data seen is selective, and...

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods, with poor nutritional value, that people eat a lot of. Thankfully we have The Michelin Guide | Main Countries of Europe...

This visualization uses data from the Spotify API, to describe 26 music genres across 8 musical dimensions: Energy, Instrumentalness, Loudness, Duration, Tempo, Valence, Danceability, and...

This project is a web-based application that focuses on exploring the spread of music genres in Western Europe clubbing culture. The application is mainly exploratory. Based on all the events...

Music is a fundamental part of me. For years, I've been building a playlist with the most representative songs of my life. This playlist became the dataset for this visualization. Each star...

Data about 10,000 movies from the last 100 years was brought together in one data set. I wanted to see if the moves that scored well also performed well also performed well at the Box Office and to...

A Map of Mid-00s Indie Band Influence.

Poems of American poet Emily Dickinson and novel Chilean poet Victoria Ramírez are translated into each other's language by different translators, and their writing process visualized in an organic...

This project is an interpretation of Italo Calvino’s novel "If on a winter’s night a traveler". It is composed of two books. The "text" book contains the text of the novel. Selected keywords are...

The U.S. military and Hollywood have been actively working together since the dawn of American cinema. This project visualizes more than 500 film productions (gathered with a FOIA) that have...

Learning about ancient history can sometimes feel like rote memorization: old names, old dates, etc. For this visualization, I wanted to show the history of the Roman Empire in vivid color. It...

Apple becomes the first publicly-listed U.S. company to reach a market value of $1 trillion, a major milestone in a decade of stock gains fueled by the iconic iPhone. Here's a look at how the...

Fun with #ggplot2 and #spotifyr. Plotting danceability by track to recreate the album art for Radiohead's Kid A.

Inspired by abundant fruit production in Taiwan throughout the year, the idea of making an infographic with the timely delicacies comes to mind. This infographic is actually a calendar which...

This is a visual essay about the impacts of asphalt art on roadway safety. It visualizes data from Bloomberg Philanthropies and showcases how intersections across the United States enjoy greater...