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      • 2022 Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations
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  • Medium

    K-Means Clustering: An Explorable Explainer

    This interactive article presents a so-called “explorable explainer” of the k-means clustering algorithm. It attempts to push the envelope of how visual explanations can be designed on an...
    k-means-explorable.vercel.app
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    hong kong artists, women

    The project is simultaneously a celebration of Hong Kong women artists, represented as powerful, majestic mountains rising above the mist, as well as a reminder of their under-representation on...
    hkartistswomen.com
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  • Medium

    Sweet & Slim, Greasy & Grim: The Physical Traits that Define Men & Women in Literature

    This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    Abandoned at sea: The desperate journeys of Rohingya refugees

    Imagine escaping home and embarking on a dangerous sea voyage to find refuge, only to realise that another nightmare has just begun. This is the reality for Rohingya refugees who flee from Myanmar...
    kontinentalist.com
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  • Medium

    The Shape of Dreams

    An exploration of the most common searches in Google related to what we dream about. More details: https://medium.com/@frcfr/visualizing-the-shape-of-dreams-for-google-trends-5164c3c4e382
    the-shape-of-dreams.com
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  • Medium

    Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing

    This visual explanation demonstrates how COVID-19 tracing apps can break infection chains and preserve users' privacy. We felt that the public discourse surrounding digital contact tracing lacked a...
    tracing.ft0.ch
    2022 Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations Longlist Shortlist Silver Winners
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  • Medium

    Anatomy of the Lismore disaster

    Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
    www.smh.com.au
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  • Medium

    Afghanistan20

    We worked in partnership with Italy–based NGO EMERGENCY to bring to life Afghanistan20: a historical document that utilizes imagery, journalism, and data visualization to portray with empathy the...
    afghanistan20.emergency.it
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  • Medium

    The threatened tribe

    Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data...
    graphics.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist Silver Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    Metroverse - The Growth Lab’s Urban Economy Navigator

    Metroverse is an urban economy navigator built at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. It is based on over a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify and offers a detailed look into...
    metroverse.cid.harvard.edu
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  • Medium

    Gender and language

    An illustrated and animated graphics story on how the movement to recognises a spectrum of genders is changing languages around the world.
    graphics.reuters.com
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  • Medium

    What Spotify data show about the decline of English

    How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify. This project looks at the decline...
    www.economist.com
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  • Medium

    Western Monarch Butterfly Population Decline

    In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...
    twitter.com
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  • Medium

    I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.

    Hello. I am a book. But I’m also a portal to the universe. I have 112 pages, measuring 20cm high and wide. I weigh 450g. And I have the power to show you the wonders of the world. I'm...
    www.iamabook.online
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  • Medium

    Life under curfew

    ‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...
    www.sjc.community
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  • Medium

    Rough Justice

    This is the first part of a three-part series that comprised a detailed national investigation into police mishandling of sexual assaults reported in Australia. Australia’s sexual assault data is...
    www.abc.net.au
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  • Medium

    Animated Sport Results

    A collection of animated gifs replaying various sport matches and events. The "timeline triangles" visualization works with several sport disciplines when teams or individuals win by scoring...
    krisztinaszucs.com
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  • Medium

    A Song of Crowns and Tears

    The number of cases is rising, more and more people are dying and yet: we read and write mainly about statistics and hardly about people. How can we bring humanity back to the emotionless...
    www.youtube.com
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  • Medium

    Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically

    "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...
    especiales.eldiario.es
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  • Medium

    Culture in the Crosshairs

    We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings. We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...
    www.abc.net.au
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  • Medium

    HR Attrition Dashboard

    This data visualization provides insights on the attrition trends in an organization with several breakdowns by department, job role, demographics, and survey scores. The glassmorphism design and...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    The first 100 days of protests rocking Hong Kong

    The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...
    multimedia.scmp.com
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  • Medium

    MTA Ridership Changes due to Covid-19

    MTA Ridership Changes due to COVID-19 recounts what happened to New York City during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Data visualization agency TWO-N began the project wanting to create...
    projects.two-n.com
    2022 Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations Longlist Shortlist Gold Winners
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  • Medium

    Thunder Roads

    A series of interactive visuals exploring the races of the 2021 Formula One Season
    f1.obumbratta.com
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  • Medium

    Made to Measure

    With "Made To Measure”, the filmmaker group Laokoon illustrates how online companies, advertisers, and other data traders use the information they collect – by telling an interactive story based on...
    madetomeasure.online
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  • Medium

    The perfect storm

    Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...
    graphics.reuters.com
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  • Medium

    How You Play Spades is How You Play Life: Spades in the African-American Community

    Many of us grew up playing Spades. But very little information exists on how the card game developed and grew to become a fixture in African-American households. This Spades project is an attempt...
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    Degrees of Uncertainty

    Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...
    youtu.be
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  • Medium

    Stopping the spread

    The Reuters graphics team built an in-house mathematical model to simulate and explain the spread of Covid-19 and how herd immunity may be reached. This powerful data visualisation shows the impact...
    graphics.reuters.com
    2022 Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations Longlist Shortlist Bronze Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    The star of our work

    2021 was the year when we created our first ever greeting card, taking the form of a retrospective of our work. This project was made possible by one of the most visible aspects of the company's...
    www.behance.net
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