The Imperial Palace of Ming and Qing dynasties, formerly known as the Forbidden City, lies at the center of the central axis of Beijing and is the essence of ancient Chinese palace...

Regional Weather Myths explores several questions: Are our summers getting warmer and drier? Do real summers and winters even exist anymore? Are floods on the agenda in the region? It all started...

I got curious about understanding whether pub names in the UK can tell us a little bit about the people who drink there. So I produced a bunch of maps that would help investigate this. Some names...

This deeply researched piece debunks the popular myth of the Northern route becoming a global shipping artery through the Arctic. Detailed shipping, bathymetric and ice coverage data, presented in...

TomTom is the only independent mapmaker in the world today, and has been making maps for the world’s largest technology companies, car manufacturers, fleet management organizations, city...

Language is an extension of individual identity, as vocabulary is freely chosen on social, cultural, and economic base. This map presents the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 through its...

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...

The average person on earth would live 2.6 years longer if the air contained none of the deadliest type of pollution. Your number depends on where you live. The entrant has supplied multiple...

A visualizations and animated time-lapse video of the aging buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1800 to 2016. Created by Jeffrey A. Shaffer at DataPlusScience.com. Additional link to YouTube...

The map associates the prevalence of diabetes in London neighborhoods with the diversity of nutrients of 1.6B grocery purchases. In terms of diabetes prevalence, socio-economic conditions matter...

Dubai is known to be home to several expats who come here to make their livelihoods. While looking at a country's attractiveness and in order to make decisions to move and/or settle in a place, a...

How far can you drive in one hour in different European capitals? This visualization attempts to answer that question.  

The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The viz shows the rain weather events across the United States. The data coverage is...

Standard solid-color blob maps of individual tree species show where a particular tree might be found; this is why they’re useful in field guides. But in order to show the higher-level patterns of...

Climate change and its impact on the planet is a topic that can NOT be talked about too much. With this visualization, I wanted to draw attention to climate change through the story of Polar...

We scraped satellite data showing how the drought impacting Australia’s east coast in 2019-20 was affecting water storage in what was then one of the driest, hottest years on record. In addition,...

A timeline of five centuries of global Spice Trade that follows the journey of cloves and nutmegs from their source of origins in Indonesia throughout the world, while unfolding the historical...

The seas cover 71% of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. Water temperatures are rising. In a five part series, Reuters looks at the implications of the...

Haze, that is, smog caused by pollution, has become an inevitable part of life in many Chinese cities. Urban pollution has quietly increased, and it affects the health and lives of many city...

In an irregular and fragmented division, species habitats that are destroyed as roads are developed. Use color to distinguish species, so that the distribution of road killing species in various...

What if you could visually compare any property's assessment value against all others in a city with a click? What interesting patterns could you find? Starting with those questions, the project...

Apart from waypoints and natural jet streams, there are many man-made constraints such as political, legal and financial restrictions on airspace. Countries use airspace to collect fees or leverage...

America's neighborhoods are highly segregated, and we often assign children to schools based on that underlying geography. But many of America's school districts actually draw school zones to make...

This project visualizes the boat traffic in Amsterdam's canals, with actual data. It explores the different types of vessels in the water and their speeds, and watch the traffic ebb and flow as the...

NB: This project is only viewable on a mobile device in a portrait orientation. High quality education comes at a price in China, a high price indeed. In 2008, Beijing reformed its middle school...

One of a series of posters for the World Energy Council depicting 'Humanising Energy', looking at the evolution of energy (how we use it, the ecological responsibilities) from 1920 to the present.

View historic mapping within a spyglass circle.

Diagonal partnered with Hassell to bring data to their latest research on the benefits and trade-offs of corridor design. We focused on Ecoducto Río de la Piedad, in Mexico City and explored how...

A series of visualizations and experimental tools around housing at a granular level.

The Apostle Paul and his companions crossed the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel and build the early church. This map overlays their journeys onto an interactive view of Roman provinces,...