In an increasingly worrisome scenario of unprecedented and extreme climate events, it is crucial to understand what causes and impacts humans and other factors have on the climate and health of our...
The daily commutes of more than 130 million Americans have been used to identify commuter-based megaregions in the United States for the first time. The project was published in the academic...
They are the foundation of life on Earth, providing food, medicine, building materials and clean air but across the world, plant species are disappearing fast.
The world contains around 423,000...
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...
A Constellation Guide to the Sixth Extinction is a web VR data visualization project on the modern, man-made episode of mass extinction. The visualization incorporates species datas from IUCN...
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,...
A visualization of the primary roads of the Roman Empire, circa 150 AD, in the style of a subway diagram. Connections between cities are emphasized at the expense of topographical accuracy. The...
The wolf – 2 sides of the discussion
The wolf is back in the Netherlands and causing a big stir. While reading and listening about the wolf, I learned a lot, for example:
- the wolf needs 4 kg...
Floodmap.io is a free, crowdsourced flood reporting service originally launched to help communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey. It's the next evolution of the successful U-Flood Project. Start...
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...
Client's infographic: how tall would a state stand, based on its tallest building? Which states have the most high-rise buildings? What are most skyscrapers used for?
The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling to cope and asking questions about the future. This series of maps explain the severity of the...
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...
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...
Over the past 10 years, more than 160 species of animals have become extinct. It is a slow and steady loss, but the extinction rate is increasing every year, and is bound to grow even...
With roots stretching back more than 100 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved to be one of the world's most intractable. Through animated maps, we explain how the political boundaries...
With Climate Change, my country Portugal has been witnessing a drastic worsening of its water supply. Severe droughts have been decimating up to 90% of the territory over the past years. Besides...
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...
"An Atlas of Space" is a collection of ten maps designed in Python using open data from NASA and the USGS. The designs include a map of 18000 asteroids in the solar system, topographic maps of each...
In 2020, I undertook a 100 Days Project on Instagram. I designed 100 infographics that displayed information about herbs and spices and their growing, culinary, and healing uses. We’ve been using...
"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...
Accessibility is one of the drivers of health behaviours. This user-friendly interactive viz looks at location-related accessibility to facilities which may enable healthier lifestyle in Singapore....