Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz tracks the American dialect in these...

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,...

I initially created this map for a GISMO exhibit at the Queens Museum, "Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World". There, the map existed in print form and focused only on Queens. The data comes...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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.

The images shared on social media not only provide authentic brand assets that people are keen to engage with – they are also the most direct way of seeing the world through consumers’ eyes. To...

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 our previous research, we investigated different areas of the Facebook dispositif: algorithmic and human labor, the digital infrastructure behind the social network, and the exploitation of...

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization deals with the World worries, showing the results of the survey "What...

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...

This interactive visualization shows you the differences based on the frequency and contextual relationship between two query words within the same dataset – this visualisation is especially useful...

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...

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...

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...

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.

For me, this Design Mind Map is like a self-portrait. I sketched seven designers and one innovator who I admire, and then arranged them chronologically. All these designers have influenced me a lot....

In college I studied Computer Science and forgot how to talk to women. There just weren’t any of them, anywhere (or if there were, they were in hiding). As the only straight woman within reach, I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Being an outspoken woman on Twitter is hard. To find out how hard, we gathered a day’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women — Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Tavleen Singh, and Madhu...

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...

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have played Google’s game Quick, Draw! prompting us to ask what takeaways it might have for global culture, like whether your location and language...

Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.

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,...

A perfect hourglass is almost unheard of for plus sized fit. The majority of plus sized women identify with more disproportioned sizing that makes finding the perfect fit in tailored clothes almost...