Nick Bostrom has a very interesting paper called “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” The basic intuition is that preventing even small risks of human extinction is worthwhile if we...
Also women can harass men in different type of ways, but it seems that no one is willing to talk about it. Just like concrete, men are stereotypically considered strong, unbreakable. Bu exactly...
Written in the Stars.
This tells a story, our story. But it is not unique, it in part belongs to all of us that have fallen for another. The technology industry can, at times, earn its...
‘Visualizing Yemen's Invisible War’ is a multimedia special feature that explores the horrific consequences of US support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, using first-hand accounts from...
An interactive visualization showing all of the members of Fleetwood Mac since they started in 1967 and all the albums they’ve produced in that period of time. The members are shown using a sort of...
Reuters set up a camera on top of our Delhi bureau, capturing hundreds of images over October-November, historically the worst period of air quality each year in the Indian capital.
The graphics...
The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) reveals local trends in a large but lesser-known sector of the U.S. health care system – employer-based insurance, which covers half the population. HMI creates...
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As a kind of non-material wealth, Dalian dialect is the carrier of regional culture, and its scope and frequency of application are shrinking. This map describes the development process...
I was interested in visually exploring the communication between people and machines. I went about this by recording conversations between myself and Siri and then used the sound data from these...
As the global temperature continues to rise, not only humans, but also the creatures on Earth are greatly affected. Despite the overwhelming news on global warming on the Internet, the impact of...
Lawmakers are supposed to write your laws. Instead, sometimes, special interests write them. This is how they do it.
Our investigation examined nearly 1 million bills introduced in all 50 states...
Operation Fistula dashboards talks about what Fistula means and shows the African countries that are most affected by this condition. It shows the different criterias which are responsible for this...
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The visualization shows the space debris, categorized according to their average distance from Earth and the type of object.
For each type, the number of...
Visualization attempts to address the most common threat for local residents in Nepal - landslide collapsing over the road network. There are many technical solutions that could protect the road...
This infographic introduces the traditional wedding of Baba Nyonya. The work use circular composition to describe the process of the wedding in a clockwise direction. Meanwhile, Baba Nyonya’s...
When a train starts running from one station to the next station, conceptually, these two stations will temporarily be closer to each other. And that is exactly what this visualization shows:...
TwoTone lets you turn data into sound and music. It uses the process of sonification to let you hear data. It’s free and open-source and runs 100% on the web, so you don’t need to download...
In 2013 Russian doctors teamed up with engineers to develop a robot‑assisted surgical system to meet the needs of both surgeons and patients. In 2018 first experimental surgery was successfully...
In a “Tempestry,” each color represents a temperature, and each line, the daily high temperature in a specific location. Put together three-hundred-and sixty-five of these lines, and you get a...
How can we humanize mental health statistics? In our iOS app, we invite Canadians to create their own avatar and answer the same mental health questionnaire asked by the government. Once complete,...
2019 vote EU is an online tool that allows you to explore the opinions of over 250 political parties from 28 EU member states on 22 policy statements for the 2019 European Elections.
Many vote...
A forensic analysis of newly obtained CCTV footage shows the movements of a suspected suicide bomber in the Sri Lanka attacks.
The project explains how the man, with a large backpack, casually...
A visual compendium of the Marvel universe showing each character and their history with the franchise.
Since the series kicked off in 2008, the Marvel films have become a part of culture...
We went through the transcript of the hearing and noted every single time a question was asked of Ford and Kavanaugh. (We didn’t include the times a questioner didn’t ask an explicit question.)...
Eating a poor quality diet high in junk food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death.
This...
The infographic shows which parties (represented by the vertical rectangles) the two candidates who competed in the second round of the election in Brazil passed by. The distribution of these...
Hudson Yards in NYC has arrived to many mixed reviews, but how it's new art venue The Shed performs remains to be seen. Is it filling a void, or entering a glut? Here's a snapshot of it in context...
An interactive data sculpture about the future of the gulf stream due to climate change. The powerful system is powered by circulation areas, e.g., AMOC (Atlantic meridional overturning...