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:...

What is the EGOT club? Who are the EGOT winners, and, what does EGOT even mean? EGOT is the acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards – which collectively represent the most...

For a decade, the Pew Research Center has rigorously tracked restrictions on religion around the world — both those imposed by governments, as well as hostilities committed by individuals and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

Missing masterpieces draw headlines, but most stolen art is crushingly quotidian-a family portrait "lost" by a moving company, a landscape snatched with the jewelry during a break-in. The FBI's...

In 2017, there are still directors who shoot on film (sometimes exclusively). Others use both film and digital when it serves a purpose. In this project, I explore the filmmaker's choices. When we...

The most prolific authors in the world. Artwork was published on La Lettura, the cultural supplement of Corriere Della...

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...

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...

There are many aspects to the Harry Potter franchise: books, movies, a new play, studio tours and theme parks. But when it comes to gauging fan reaction, there’s probably no better place than...

IN COLLABORATION WITH CJR, a team of Columbia Journalism School students transformed our Pulitzer demographics database into an interactive graphic. This project, part of a graduate course on media...

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...

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...

There has never been such an incentive to make songs shorter. Payments from music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music made up 75% all US music revenues in 2018. Streaming services pay...

The web application Emojinal Ranges analyses the tweets of the 100+ most followed celebrities on twitter regarding the use of emojis. At the center of the analysis is the scope and variance of the...

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...

A timeline of all the 10-meter-plus obelisks in the world, where the first row contains the "ancient" obelisks, and the other two rows contain the "modern" ones. Each obelisk is represented in its...

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...

85% of women on "The Bachelor" are younger than 30, compared to 60% of men on "The Bachelorette." Insider created a series of graphics that dive into the ages of the contestants on the world's most...

What and how did Fontane read? We present a visualization of Theodor Fontane’s author library. The inventory of ~64000 pages in 155 books contains works from the personal library of Fontane, a...

Palette of Art is a poster series investigating the frequency of color occurrence in famous masterpieces throughout history. The series interprets color through an adaptive color wheel,...

This piece visualises all the times that coffee is seen and spoken about in Brooklyn 99 season 3. Each small coffee ring circle represents a time coffee was seen with each large coffee ring...

How does America watch movies? Do coastal audiences prefer action films? Do movie-goers in the south opt for films that mirror their experiences? We’ve mapped US movie tastes for this year’s Oscars...

Through the investigation and study of a series of related information about the forest fire in Liangshan, Sichuan, the design thinking was triggered. The significance of this graduation project is...

The museums, monuments and archeological areas, both free and paid, that were most visited in each region of Italy in 2017. Artwork was published on La Lettura, the cultural supplement of...

Our ancestors conducted friendly exchanges through the Silk Road long time ago.Although it was named "Silk Road", in the trade on this artery, besides silk, lacquerwork and all kinds of rare...