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...

When a story is well-written, you can become so immersed while reading that it becomes your world. All your surroundings disappear and all that remains are the words on the page guiding you through...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. Tens of thousands of works that touch on countless...

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...

This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. This network-graph visualisation depicts the mental library of the...

Han is one of the China local operas, old Chu Han Diao. In May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In the Chinese drama development history,...

A web application that visually reconstructs the thoughts and feelings which occurred during a classical musical performance. Keynote and documentation at...

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.

Bauhaus was the first college in the world to be founded entirely for the development of modern design education. It was founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius. The establishment of...

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...

As Avengers assemble with characters from all corners of the Marvel universe, this graphic will tell you who fights whom, who has a hellish sister, and more.

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...

Orchids are valuable, ornamental plants. In China, the orchid is called the national orchid mainly referring to the spring orchid, lily orchid, cymbidium, jianlan, cold orchid, merlan, spring...

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...

We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places. See where songs dominate across the globe

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Cardcaptor Sakura, written and illustrated by CLAMP between 1996 - 2000, is one of the most beautiful and adorable manga series ever created. This visualization is an ode to this series and brings...

This is not a graphic experiment to represent Beethoven's work, but a precise research that attempts to narrate the musical and stage performance by the Quartetto Sincronie. So we decided to tell...

Fear & Loathing in Cinema Theatre is based on the idea that genres — as prototypical narratives — are constructed in such a way as to evoke a characteristic viewer's emotions. The project shows...

The intention of this visualization was to give music a new dimension and perspective by making it pleasing to the eye as much as it is to the ear. The Infernal Dance is a part of the Firebird...