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...
An analysis of your favorite sci-fi movies from the ‘80s.
Rediscover all the sci-fi movies from the '80s in this visualization showing the connections between movies and main actors.
Explore...
An exploration of related principles in traditional arts and data visualization. I created this for 2022's Iron Viz competition for Tableau, and used public data from arts.gov, MetOpera Database,...
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...
Metal Underground imagines the sub-genres of heavy metal and related rock as nodes on a transit map with their relationships to each other traced out by subway, tram, and light rail routes. Route...
Bonsai, is one of the traditional Chinese fine arts. Plants and rocks comprise the basic materials
for artwork that expresses natural landscape in a small basin.
My hometown LongQuan is rich in celadon; a type of traditional glazed pottery. I want to reproduce the process of making LongQuan celadon in its historical heyday, including all the techniques of...
Throughout 2018, users of Spotify have streamed countless hours of their favorite songs, artists, playlists, and podcasts. Now, I am looking back to determine the music trends that defined the year.
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...
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...
Since 1970’s, there has been a steady increase in LGBT characters on television, a trend that is generally viewed as positive and progressive. Yet writers often have trouble doing the lives 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...
Nanjing Ming City Wall is the world's largest city wall, it tells the history of a dynasty, it carries the memories of those ancient times and now became the footprints of that.
The work...
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,...
We think that the world is fascinating. That is why we created Factourism combining our love of strange facts with our love for illustration. Factourism is an ever evolving series of illustrated...
This series of posters visualizes what parts of the piano keyboard are played the most in well-known classical music pieces such as Fur Elise, 'Moonlight' Sonata, Clair de Lune and the Minute...
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...
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...
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:...
After more than 20 years of writing and performing genre-defining music, the post-hardcore band mewithoutYou retired in the summer of 2022. The band was known for playing impressively diverse...
Explore a landscape of the covers of over 5,000 books that appeared in the New York Times's "Best Selling" and "Also Selling" books lists.
The covers are grouped using machine learning, allowing...
There will always be flashes of memories with certain songs, smells, tastes, and for this story movies. The Wizard of Oz reminds me of a time that was simple in my childhood. My parents divorced...
“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...
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...
The goal of this project was to use machine learning in order to get the emotional landscape of 19th century novels. The data from that analysis was then used to create data visualizations, which...
This interactive visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one of the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. The visualisation depicts the corpus of author's literary...
Only self-supporting statues are profiled in this graphic. Statues carved on rocks and mountains or those under construction are not included.
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