Nonprofit groups and smaller businesses may not have what qualifies as “big data,” but their data still has important stories to tell. Centre for Cities is one such organization.
A leading...
This is a collection of notebooks about drawing and animating ‘waterlines’—an old technique for showing water in maps—in JavaScript. The notebooks walk through different approaches in code, connect...
Haller’s Journey is an immersive story map inviting the reader to follow along the botanical journey of Albrecht von Haller, an 18th-century botanist, and physician. In 1739, Haller left his...
While Canada is well-known for its winters, it is also home to deadly urban heat waves. But where are the areas most affected by extreme heat? And who lives in them? Answering these simple...
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...
This radial visualization highlights some of the increasingly extreme weather conditions occurring in Portland, OR. In particular, the winter of 2016 brought some treacherously icy conditions and...
Nearly 27% of the Netherlands is below sea level with a vast network of polders and dykes keeping the North Sea at bay. Where the cyan and magenta shapes meet it reveals this immense area of land...
This visualization was created as part of the Viz4ClimateAction initiative hosted by Tableau and TheSDGVizProject. It features 4 different visuals that walk users through the story of climate...
Road killings in Taiwan are becoming more and more severe, with gray in the background to indicate "roads", and red gradients for species extinction to show the spread of blood, like only...
A data visualisation outlining the volume of air pollutants pumped out in Europe through industrial activities (e.g., burning fossil fuels, raising livestock etc.) and their relative scale and...
This project translates a bird's migration journey from South Arabian Peninsula to North Asia into a series of map images in traditional East Asian landscape painting style with haiku poems...
"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...
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...
This dataviz shows different types of forest fires in Russia over time. You can see how the dynamic of them changes over tie among different territories.
What's one of the first things you think of when you think of moving or visiting a new place? If you said climate or weather, you're right! According to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science...
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...
The aim of this Instagram carousel is to sensibilise people around the theme of threatened species.
Madagascar is the first country with the highest number of threatened species in the world....
Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season.
A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...
A mere 1% of the world’s habitable land is human built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure. While agriculture takes up half of the world’s...
A few years ago, my kids were taking very long showers. I wanted a way to explain to them how important water is and should be used sparingly but in a very simplified way that they could relate,...
This work presents the availability of water in the Portuguese basins (sets of dams). The map on the right indicates which regions hold the biggest volumes of water (Guadiana and Tejo). The...
The Climate Orb project is an awareness campaign that aims to use data aesthetics to spread awareness about Climate Change and its causes and consequences.
This project explores data aesthetics as...
Back in the 1970s, activist Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promotion of life in cities: diversity of land use, small block sizes,...
This 4 in 1 journalism, designed in 2020 and launched in 2021, reflects the severe situation of global plastic pollution in the past 10 years since 2010 and gives its prediction by 2025 based on...
Interactive visualisation that can be used to view average CO2 emissions of cities worldwide at a glance, as well as to dive into the data for a specific city – both its emissions and trends over...
Often, road names have common suffixes or prefixes. The map illustrates the occurrence of popular road name types encoded by color.
The resulting colorful network reveals some interesting...
This was a data-driven story created in collaboration with Birdlife International and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. It portrays how the conservation of migratory birds, which travel...
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...
This piece speaks to the idea of removing the feeling of political separation between different states by envisioning the entire country as an integrated garden. The state flower for each state is...