When it comes to sand mining, the Singapore government is often closed to scrutiny. As a result, it is often cast as a villain, guzzling sand from its neighbours while it grows bigger through...
Service design methodologies can support the design of ad hoc visualisation tools focused on user needs. We present a case study co-development of a visualisation tool for the analysis of public...
In the summer of 2022, the water levels in the Yangtze, China’s largest river, hit a record low due to low rainfall in the river basin, reduced water flowing in from its upper reaches, and hotter...
A cotton data visualization showing a change in the ranking of cotton lint producers in a decade. Made using threads, needle and a cloth. The red threads denote a decline in the rank and the black...
Housing availability in cities across America is failing to keep up with growing populations. To address this crisis, policymakers have begun to reconsider local zoning laws - the rules that limit...
The project comprises a publicly accessible, interactive webmap, aimed to communicate the rise and fall of London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) temporally over the course of the 2 year COVID...
The island of Hawaii (also known as Hawaii's "Big Island") is made of five volcanoes. This map visualizes these volcanoes in a simple, straightforward, and stylized way — the volcanic peak (center...
From the 1930s to 1967, the federal government undertook a comprehensive effort to map perceived lending risk in neighborhoods of more than 230 cities across the US. This practice became known as...
The U.S. is filled with towns and cities that were named after foreign places: You can take a trip to Naples, N.Y., or Paris, Texas. — and go on a world tour without ever leaving your home state....
Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale.
We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and...
A just transition to a net zero world needs to be inclusive. In this visualization, we explore equity and equality, the relationship between wealth and CO2 emissions, and the impacts of climate...
Boar straying into urban areas has been a problem in many modern cities, the boar problem in Hong Kong refers to the increasing population of wild boars in urban areas. Rapid urbanization has...
The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate.
Amid deforestation, pesticide use,...
This quilt was designed utilizing a data set from Our World In Data, which tracked the increase in animals killed every year for meat production. In the quilt, red = cows, orange = pigs, and yellow...
This interactive narrative aims to illustrate the contrasting disparities in the lives and opportunities of children in Eastern and Western Europe, using the metaphor of children's books. Not all...
The report presents the generation, collection and treatment of waste in Mexico City. This process is represented in a data visualization that shows how many tons of waste are generated by the city...
In the US alone, we throw away 400 million paper coffee cups a day. That’s the equivalent of the volume of 13 Empire State Buildings of waste.
In response to this staggering issue of waste, I...
How do you define the neighborhoods in your city? Axios created an interactive game that lets readers draw boundaries for select neighborhoods in their city and compare their responses to the...
"The Names on the Moon" is a stroll on the lunar surface through its feature names.
We always see the Moon portrayed as a muted grey sphere orbiting planet Earth, marked by dark spots visible to...
India's pursuit of economic growth to improve citizens' quality of life presents a challenge in balancing development with environmental sustainability. Navigating the socio-cultural and economic...
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...
The Wandering House ~ Sonic Archive, is a repository of testimonials and ambient sounds gathered by artist and filmmaker, Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, through her multimodal project, The Wandering...
Ruas do Género: Exploring Gender Representation in Urban Toponymy
"Ruas do Género" is a visual essay that explores the issue of gender representation in the street names of Porto, Portugal. How...
August 15th, 2023 marks the first National Ecological Day in China. Our focus turns to plastic that can be seen everywhere.
In 1950, only 2 million tons of plastic products were produced...
We compare land prices in different cities to find out what kind of home you could buy (and, above all, what size) after collecting the prize from the Christmas Special Draw and paying the...
Sankey diagrams show the distribution of households according to security experience and household income, the frequency of interruption of water supply according to income, and the frequency...
These ‘Monsoon Rainfall Clocks’ describe the monthly rainfall totals between 1905-2015 for India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the UK. Each gradated coloured curve represents one year, its distance from...