In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...

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 is a visualization and auralization of real-time global tweets mentioning 'Music'. People around the world love music, love to listen to music, and love to discuss music. What does it sound...

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 You should have heard about them, or you may be regarded as out of date.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...

I analyzed and visualized the time I spent on using media, like Facebook, emails, etc.

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?  

An analysis of the more than 21,000 words in the Hamilton musical, and a write-up of the relational and thematic insights that were found. Includes an interactive exploratory tool at the end, where...

It is a visualization of the national anthem of China. From left to right, top to bottom, it visualizes the entire song and lyrics. The lyrics of Chinese characters are not complete characters but...

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 IMDb ratings of the Original, Prequel, & Sequel Star Wars films (those released as of 30th May 2017). Hovering over the x-wings provides more information about each film, hovering over the...

We looked at the Best Picture winners from the past 90 years and analysed the number of nominations in other Oscar categories that they received in that year (nominations, not necessary...

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...

Addiction-Prediction is a cocktail application made with Processing, you can choose a cocktail from the dataset of the International Bartenders Association and the program will show you how to make...

In my younger days, I used to eat fast food all of the time. So cheap. So delicious. But these days, it’s all about moderation. My metabolism no longer supports the same amount of fried food. The...

This interactive project uses text mining and data visualization techniques to reveal new patterning insights of the ancient Chinese text I-Ching from both divinatory and philosophical...

Visualising Jane Austen's people, places and plots: Jane Austen died 200 years ago, but her novels have never been more popular. But what goes into a Jane Austen novel? And what gets left out?

A visual story of funny misspellings in Reddit comments. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2] 

Bronze is the earliest alloy in the history of metal smelting. Adding tin or lead alloy to pure copper has special importance and historical significance. Bronze is found all over the world...

"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.

Romancing the American West is designed to survey the Western film and television genre, and to test a hypothesis set forth by Robert McKee is his book, Story. Robert McKee describes a...

This work is a scientific information chart, its main popular science object is Salt Lake. This infographic mainly introduces the related knowledge of salt lake by taking "chaka salt lake" in...

Food safety is a popular issue that people have been paying attention all the time, which the pesticide residues in fruits have directly endangered the survival environment and health of human...

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...

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 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...

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...

Top Models DNA is an anthropological comparison of 96 famous famale fashion models considering their body features and origins.

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...

Being passionate about the films of Quentin Tarantino, I decided to do a dataviz project exploring his non-linear scripts and interconnected characters. I started watching all the movies and...

A nostalgic and quirky look at the Mr Men books which answers the crucial analytical questions: what colour were they all and which ones had different colour noses? "Trilogy" extends to muppets,...