Ditch The Label joined forces with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million Tweets over a four-year period to explore the current climate of cyberbullying and hate speech online. We used social data...

Ever wonder if we can quantify a gender bias in society? Using machine learning, we can generate word associations present in a given media source. By looking at those associations we can tell...

Blink and you might have missed it: On July 27, 2017, 10:10AM, Jeff Bezos briefly became the world’s richest person. His stake in Amazon.com Inc. has soared nearly fivefold since the online...

I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...

We developed an application for Audipress to visualize data, collected on a quarterly basis by Doxa, on the readership of newspapers and magazines in Italy. Through 14 different interactive views,...

This is an interactive visualization of a thesaurus – the view highlights the relationship between central search word and its reference to other words used within the dataset. A query word is...

Presenting data from an app that author Wyl Menmuir used to help him write his Booker-longlisted debut, which gives insights into how it was done.

Where are the gaps and opportunities in plus sized clothing? For the demographic with the most purchasing power, determining the right style fit is absolutely priceless. It's time for the industry...

Canada's Indian Residential School System was a network of boarding schools, industrial schools, and federal hostels created to remove indigenous children from their homes, their families, and...

Special forces play an important role in the world's increasingly complex military relations. This illustration is intended to give people a better understanding of the equipment carried by the...

Eni commissioned The Visual Agency to design an interactive longform to tell the story of the company's evolution. We took the perspective ofexplaining the three key pillars of their work over the...

I went through the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction from 1950 to present, and for each year measured the ratio of books-written-by-women to books-written-by men and tracked that over...

In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...

For my final GCSE piece, I collected data on what activities I was doing for every minute of the day. I collected my data by hand and later transferred it onto a spreadsheet. The overwhelming...

These are four interactive data visualizations that are based on the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary. The application provides additional information on the authors of...

Around 3 months into my backpacking trip, I was wandering around in Ukraine while trying to learn a few words. As hard as I tried, I would butcher the simplest of phrases such as "Good day"...

Women in government in the modern era are under-represented in most countries worldwide. Even though some progress has been made during the last two centuries, and women are increasingly...

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...

  El País is the undisputed leader of the Spanish-language Internet conversation, according to the prestigious Global Opinion Leaders Index (GDI) in its 2016 edition, the results of which were...

Cops are using secret cellphone trackers nationwide to collect cellphone data—especially in poor, black neighborhoods.

Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective. The...

Female characters appear in superhero comics less often than males — but when they are included, how are they depicted?

In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—we tried on what it would look...

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between. Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. This visualization helps to...

Data Futures is a live experiment about the connections between our data and ourselves. It is run in conference settings, with a large, real-time visualization on a projector, two moderators...

Poster about veganism. The central image explains guidelines for how to carry out a healthy vegan diet, and the elements around it explain data related to this position.

People’s workdays tend to follow similar patterns. You wake up in the morning, get ready for the day, go to work for eight hours or so, and then go home. There are breaks in between. The 9 to 5,...

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in all spheres of social life. Men in...

There were some graphics going around that showed the total amount of time spent during an average person’s lifetime doing things. The numbers were pretty rough though. For example, to calculate...

In 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.” Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...