When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore. As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...

This data visualization represents the admitted patient care activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector during 2019-2020. This dashboard...

Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed lifestyles, personal habits, and created a deep chasm between “before” and “after.” We were interested in exploring how the pandemic affected people’s...

The project is simultaneously a celebration of Hong Kong women artists, represented as powerful, majestic mountains rising above the mist, as well as a reminder of their under-representation on...

This interactive article presents a so-called “explorable explainer” of the k-means clustering algorithm. It attempts to push the envelope of how visual explanations can be designed on an...

For the 2022 Salone del Mobile, Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) were commissioned to design a 1400 sq. m. centerpiece exhibition focused on the year’s theme of sustainability. We worked with the...

Pagodas were introduced to China with Buddhism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. They have changed significantly in form, structure, material, layout, and function over a long...

In this article, we investigate about the castles that can be found in Spain, from the information collected by the spanish Nonprofit Association "Amigos de los Castillos" (there is no government...

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

This project was a response from a Design Council brief during our MA data visualization at LCC. We set out to reframe the story about the current and future state of the UK design economy drawing...

This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...

An exploration of search patterns during election years. More information: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/waves-of-interest

Online censorship consists of the control or the removal of certain contents that are accessible to the public. It exists because some governments and platforms want to regulate content. In...

Heartbeats. is an info-art piece to make the heartbeats of animals visible and audible. More than 150 species of animals are going extinct every day. Perhaps considering the beating, breathing...

In the runup to the summer games, Reuters showed how Tokyo brings a double whammy of heat and humidity to the olympic athletes, posing a high risk of heat illness. Olympic athletes were to...

We worked in partnership with Italy–based NGO EMERGENCY to bring to life Afghanistan20: a historical document that utilizes imagery, journalism, and data visualization to portray with empathy the...

For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...

A collaborative research effort between three organizations — Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), Duke University, and North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield (NCBCBS) — intended to shed light on...

Since Iran’s Constitutional Revolution in 1905 and the birth of modern media in the country, successive Iranian governments have intimidated, imprisoned, tortured and killed journalists and...

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...

We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings. We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...

‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...

Imagine there is a new universal eco-rule: that the right to easily enjoy beach access derives from your plastic waste management. The more plastic you feed the ocean, the farther you walk to the...

Why do new variants keep appearing? And why are we at risk of new outbreaks? Dive into the heart of SARS-CoV-2 and discover the surprising role of the spike protein. The Omicron variant was...

Yaps and fin slaps, growls and groans—whales use a wide range of sounds to communicate. But only five whale species are known to sing, with humpbacks the unrivaled musical masters of the sea.  This...

How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify. This project looks at the decline...

We analyzed more than 382,000 headlines published between 2008 and 2021 from the top English-language news publications in India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States to see how...

A visual representation of the demographic, economic and political power of each generation in Romania, along with the opportunities and challenges they encountered in their lifetimes regarding...

An exploration of search patterns related to the pandemic. More information: https://www.axios.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-google-searches

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...