From his early silent films in the UK to his –golden years' at Paramount, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the same motifs and themes time and time again. Here we analyse some of these trademark...

I am a freak for the American road trip. And I'm not alone, as some of this country's best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such...

Bicycle makers continue to produce lighter machines with better grip and more powerful brakes. Riders have been flirting with unheard of speeds during descents, touching 70 miles an hour. And...

Visualizing the loneliest islands in the world by ranking their loneliness through a scoring system of four factors: number of inhabitants, overall land area, proximity to other land and that...

In schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the compositional technique behind the “Sirens” episode as including the “eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem,” later reworded to a “fugue with all...

On Sunday June 19th, 2022, the 27-year old Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick became a champion once again at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nine years after he won the U.S. Amateur title...

GENDER GDP/GAP attempts to communicate the stark contrast between the economic dynamism of world’s richest countries’ and the unequal political representation that has characterised it, since 1960.

Water is ever present on Earth and vital to life as we know it. Within our solar system water can be found on other worlds and will be essential for future attempts at expansion. This...

When people ask me questions, I try my best to answer them. And over the past 16 months, readers have been asking me seemingly endless questions about what is happening in Palestine. I wanted to...

Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize winning musical created by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. I first heard this musical in 2009 and was instantly hooked. The story is about the Goodman family, a family...

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...

The Competitiveness Data Hub, created for the OECD and the European Commission, helps the six Western Balkan economies benchmark their economic reforms essential to competitiveness and formulate...

Landmarks on Venus are named after famous women or goddesses. I made a topographic map introducing the woman behind each name. You can find the full-size map here.

Glaciers store valuable freshwater that is essential for the public and agriculture. When glaciers melt, this freshwater is lost to the ocean, leading to sea level rise. Glaciers are melting due to...

Ever noticed what’s outside a classroom window? Schools in Austin can apply for City of Austin grants for school-based projects that could include up to eight environmental areas. These areas...

Using the 2012 Agricultural Census data, we sought to answer three related questions about U.S. Farm Size: 1. Do small farms really have greater crop diversity? 2. Do government payments...

Nick Bostrom has a very interesting paper called ​“Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” The basic intuition is that preventing even small risks of human extinction is worthwhile if we...

IDC (International Detention Coalition) is an NGO that focuses on reducing immigration detention and finding further rights-based alternatives to detention. We made two information graphics for...

Teams ranked by #wins per season

The Public Theater has staged Shakespeare in the Park since 1962—one of New York City’s most beloved summer traditions. We were interested in visualizing a complex data set of productions,...

What forms of A.I. appear in movies? Are the stories more positive or negative? What stories tend to correlate with others? What does this imply that we should do right now about AI? The...

Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...

This factsheet about the Hispanic population in America is inspired by the beautiful traditional Mexican folk art known as papel picado.

According to the relevant literature, suicides caused by people with psychological problems tend to occur around 4am, mainly because the impulsivity of suicide is linked to the human subconscious....

365° is an education-oriented blog that runs on Instagram and Facebook. Everyday, beginning January 1st, we upload an infographic describing a single piece of data that is relevant to our...

Roots of Racism is an interactive data story created by The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) and The DataFace, intended to uncover the factors behind a surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19...

In Australia, the debate about the generational divide is as heated as it ever was, stoked by stereotypical media-baiting — from the Baby Boomers who wrecked the world and stole all the wealth, to...

This photoviz about the market of chocolate is entirely made out of chocolate. We used chocolate bars to make a treemap, chocolate topping to draw a line graph, chocolate powder (and glue) to make...

This is a blog post about a recent academic paper of me and a co-author. The blog text is written by both of us while the visualization is solely my work. The article is about whether populists in...

Climate change is likely to contribute to more hot and humid days across Canada, but every region is different. To help readers gauge just how hot it could feel in their area, CBC News crunched the...