Australia is home to an incredibly diverse range of native plant species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world due to the continent's isolation and unique ecosystems.
The exact...
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...
The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...
In large expanses of the continental United States, spring is arriving earlier than in past years. In this graphic story for The Washington Post we analyzed first-leaf and first-bloom indexes, as...
As a geography student I love making maps, and after Obama's last state of the union address I became interested in gerrymandering. So of course I made maps! I hope they can help others become...
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, with their great power, can have devastating effects on a massive scale. This work examines the earthquakes that have occurred worldwide between the years...
New York City's transportation system moves millions of people every day, from MTA buses to regional Metro-North rail lines to the omnipresent subway . Multimodal Symphony animates 24 hours of NYC...
Our methodology, termed as "streetonomics", is a form of computational social science that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of street...
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...
It’s easy to forget that wildlife extinctions are all around us. That’s why the Center for Biological Diversity created an immersive, interactive map that highlights an extinct species from all 50...
NASA registered 2016 and 2017 as the hottest years in Hong Kong’s history. On August 22, 2017, the mercury soared, measuring record temperatures of 36.6°C, making it the hottest day since 1884....
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...
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...
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...
During winter 2022-2023 California experienced record snowfall, with some areas receiving over 20m (65ft). This map illustrates this snowfall thematically using 50 sq km hex-bins that each show 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...
The second London Greenground Map is extended version of the first map published as an independent project in the spring of 2019 to inspire people walk and cycle through green spaces and along the...
Mangrove forests are one of the most productive marine ecosystems in tropical and subtropical coastal areas. They have the characteristics of both terrestrial and marine ecosystems and are also...
Using a Node-Link diagram, I decode a dataset and explore the connections between why certain species are disappearing in the North. This includes exploring the different animal attributes, and...
For background color, I chose "red, black, white", which describe "blood, death, angel respectively. Then, the red line in the top of the picture looks like the flow of blood. Most importantly, the...
The Tunguska event: A blast from the past’ is a special TASS project that takes an in-depth look at a large mysterious explosion that occurred on the morning of June 30, 1908. TASS reconstructed...
This project forms part of Agglomerations. World>Russia>Moscow, an investigation carried out for the Moscow Urban Forum 2017. Сartographic data, graphics, diagrams and texts presented here...
Sea-level rise poses a global threat to coastal species around the world, as critical habitat is steadily consumed and fragmented by rising waters. This threat is particularly stark in the case of...
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 map shows the many places mentioned in interviews with Anna Patipa and Jacob Brodman, two Holocaust survivors. You can follow the sequence of places in their accounts by noting the number of...
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The ocean has a strong influence on Earth's weather and climate, affecting our daily weather and shaping long-term climate changes. In the realm of scientific studies, acquiring the...
Coastal cities need billions of dollars to build defenses against sea level rise. Tensions are growing over where that funding will come from: taxpayers or private companies with waterfront...
We all know that our Earth goes through a seasonal cycle, especially for the latitudes farther away from the equator. In the fall the "deciduous" plants lose their leaves only to grow back again in...
President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to invest about $550 billion in new infrastructure projects across the country was a central theme in his campaign. “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure,...
This is a dot density map of religious identity across Greater London. Using data from the 2011 Census, I was able to represent each person as a single dot - that's almost 7 million for London...