What is a recommendation in the modern age? We explore this question with RecSys, a modern fable that examines through an every day event (a birthday party) the news ways we explore the world...
Tibetan Opera is called "Gillam", which means "fairy sister". According to legend, Tibetan opera was first performed by seven sisters, and the contents of the opera were mostly myths and stories in...
An onion shortage crisis occurred in India in 2010. There were large outbursts and nearly toppled the ruling government. This is a piece attempting to deduce the reason for the crisis.
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In this series of maps, Reuters traces the course of the Rohingya crisis, from the spasm of violence a year ago through to the daily lives of the refugees in teeming camps.
It might sound like science fiction, but a niche group of companies is making its way to the far reaches of the solar system, aiming to get rich by mining asteroids.
Industry barons see a future...
Forms of Attraction clusters images from the MET's Costume Institute into items sharing similar form. This was done through machine learning to uncover new relationships between items beyond...
We've seen our country's borders countless times, on maps, train schedules, weather forecasts. But how well can we draw them from memory? For the national holiday, we challenged our readers with a...
This data visualization shows the true numbers of a false migrant emergency in Europe.
Designed for La Repubblica for the "highlight" section (called Primo piano), the first pages of the...
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...
“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads.
The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...
A visual experiment that evaluates the evolving graphic symbolism of the United States, True Colors is a collection of flags generated from the 2016 American Community Survey. Each flag is based on...
This work draws on data from an Oxford University study, ‘The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation’, which categorises U.S. occupations according to their...
This is visualization of arbitrary vector fields. A vector field assigns velocity and direction to every point on a plane. I drop thousands of particles on a plane and let them flow according to...
Flight altitude records with a balloon and with a fixed-wing aircraft. Some, but not all of the records were certified by the non-profit international aviation organization, the Fédération...
How Hong Kong has changed since handover from music to politics, fashion to infrastructure, these graphics explore the evolution of Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from...
Population ageing is a major demographic challenge for humanity. Since population structures evolve slowly and predictably, the demographic, economic, environmental, and social problems of ageing...
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...
This project visualizes the performance of every World Cup player in the last 50 years. We generated a statistical fingerprint for each player based on 16 metrics, and created an interactive...
Information can be beautiful... why not stunningly beautiful? I wanted to mesmerise and captivate hearts as well as minds, inviting people to watch and interact and uncover - and trying to breathe...
What if machines could write stories?
What are the boundaries between creativity and automation? These are the questions I asked myself when I started working on 'Grimmz' - a fairy-tale generator,...
Nowadays, most Europeans take clean drinking water for granted. Yet, in the pan-European region alone, about 19 million people still do not have access to improved water sources and 67 million...
It sounds like hyperbole, but it isn’t: Half of American women struggle to find jeans that fit at the mall. More specifically, only 13% of women’s jeans in brick and mortar stores are available for...
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods, with poor nutritional value, that people eat a lot of.
Thankfully we have The Michelin Guide | Main Countries of Europe...