As a Chinese-Canadian, I am always thinking of fun ways to learn Chinese. I have developed a method of learning Chinese characters from songs. The overall learning process can be both fun and...
Where do cosmic X-rays come from? Every new unidentified X-ray source has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the universe. Astronomers thus aimed at automatically classifying new...
"Groovescape" transforms auditory data into a visual experience. The user is given the opportunity to have his individual Spotify playlists displayed as a shimmering tornado. The shape and dynamics...
The bubbles on this page show each of 4,935 trade lines, and the extent of tariffs affecting them; bigger bubbles for a higher value of trade, darker colours for heavier...
An infographic on heat waves and snow storms in 35 cities around the globe, by Timm Kekeritz. Statistics on weather are everywhere: on TV, in newspapers, on our mobile phones. But weather is more...
With abolitionist Harriet Tubman coming to the $20 bill, the women-on-currency issue deserves some context. Though men are featured on bank notes far more than women, the Tribune tracked down...
This project uses an interactive 3D globe with over 1,000 relatively evenly distributed points over Earth's landmasses to tell the story of climate change. You can animate each point's temperature...
In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...
An essential visual guide for pharmacists on the growth in the over-the-counter medicines market over the year, containing data on the key products that they need to be aware of and the key trends...
Our interactive tool built for the Unesco Institute for Statistics as part of the International Women’s Day and centered on the theme “Equality for women is progress for all” helps visualize the...
"War Filings" shows the density of explosions on the Syrian territory from 2015 to 2017. The data, gathered in the Global Terrorism Database, are represented through the metaphor of ferromagnetic...
A blockchain is a database that is shared across a network of computers. Once a record has been added to the chain it is very difficult to change. To ensure all the copies of the database are...
A lot of people look for jobs at big companies because they can be great places to build a solid career. Unfortunately, if we measure the size of a company in terms of annual revenue, there may...
The issue of segregation of immigrants has generated a lot of interest in many Western countries, not least in Sweden in the run up to the 2018 elections. In the midst of many alarmist stories...
This short data essay merges personal data with scientific research about sleep. The visualizations reflect on my sleep patterns during the final semester of (remote) university in comparison to...
The challenge with "Environment in East Germany" was to present a heavy topic like environmental pollution in an interesting and light way without neglecting the seriousness of the issue. In an...
The 24 solar terms are the unique solar terms culture of China. With throttle the starting point of life is to want to do a north and south China for throttle value contrast as original from...
In Jordan 13.4% of all marriages involve a girl under the age of 18. DATA4CHANGE worked with Arab Women Organization to create an interactive data-led offline experience that can be shared with...
How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...
Cairn aims at understanding the variety of practices in third spaces. It explores alternatives to questionnaires and other traditional evaluation techniques by stressing aesthetic, affective and...
For Christmas 2019, I made a postcard with a personalized graphic in which I showed all the friends and family and the distance that separates us through lines. Each postcard was personalized...
Social Media Development (Worldwide/China)
The way people access information is changing at a rapid pace of technology development, with social media gradually replacing traditional media...
IBM Technology Garden is a realtime installation bringing Wimbledon tennis Championships data to life. Data from match and player statistics, AI video highlights, weather forecasts, cyber security...