Patterns in Fantasy book titles Fantasy books are a wonderful genre within literature. With their brick sized formats and series spanning a dozen books or more, many amazing worlds, very different...
The 24 solar terms is a set of ancient knowledge about time and practices developed in China through the observation of the annual movement of the sun, Recently the 24 solar terms were added to...
50 years of lore, history and mythology around the best film that almost didn't get made: “The Godfather."
Based on a bestselling book by Mario Puzo, the epic three-hour saga took America by...
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...
The film industry is one of the most impactful sectors in our society and it has been influencing our values and opinions for decades now. Many key roles in the industry have been dominated by men....
Taohuawu New Year pictures are the folk wooden New Year pictures in jiangnan area of China. Taohuawu New Year paintings originated from the woodblock printing technology in the song dynasty and...
China’s Forbidden City in Beijing, remodelled today as the Palace Museum, is a mystical place full of wonderful stories. This full-page infographic uses data to visualise one such tale.
According...
A streamgraph of the Beatles discography showing song writers along 13 core albums between 1963-1970 + 8 top songs issued as singles .
The songs are spread below the albums as black dots or a...
I wanted to understand how much time it takes superstar musicians to play in countries around the world. This project looks at how concert culture has changed over the decades and how music is...
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...
The 24 solar terms represent climate change and are closely related to the health of tea drinking. In the "tea drinking guide", the spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively correspond to four...
Interviewed in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016, series showrunner Steven Moffat talked about the difficulties of writing the 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor' in 2013. He was not only...
**The demo video and pictorial of this project can be found in https://osf.io/3kt8d/.
Social media platforms generate a constant flow of digital expressions, opinions, and emotions, forming a...
This visualization explores a Spotify playlist of 60 songs from another point view, through a visual analysis of the singers and bands behind their music.
The idea arises from a personal...
This work is an example of data art and design application in publication graphic design. It shows how programming may be applied in a book covers generation.
The approach shows how two...
Have you ever wanted to see a snapshot of your music taste? Most of us enjoy songs spanning several different genres. These are not always clearly distinct, sometimes they overlap, and sometimes...
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...
Music is an important part of my life and I imagined what it would be like as a hearing-impaired person to experience a song by what it "looks" like, instead. This is a "map" of the song In the...
In this project, I explored thousands of artists on Spotify to see which was the biggest one-hit wonder, defined by having a single song that made up the vast majority of their streams. I found...
The visualisation shows the 50 most voted animated feature films on Imdb (Internet Movie Database); for each picture are reported the number of votes received, the average value of the judgments,...
The chart uses 9 chord diagrams to visually depict communication patterns among the 9 key characters in the iconic US TV series, "The Office." The varying widths of connecting lines portray the...
I was thrilled to be asked by Neon Rated to produce a poster exploring the work of one of my favorite screenwriters and directors, Bong Joon Ho, as part of the US marketing for his latest movie,...
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 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...
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...