More than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, according to results of a study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in...
In 1939, ethnomusicologists John and Ruby Lomax set out on a 6,502 mile journey across the Southern United States collecting folksongs on behalf of the Library of Congress.
Using maps, music and...
The way we speak has an enormous effect on our identities. As part of a series on digital identity, we used a UNESCO dataset and D3.js to create a visual essay about the world's endangered...
Ten days after launching a quiz in which iROZHLAS.cz readers could compare their estimates of Czechs with real statistics, they gathered 41,000 individual answers. What did the readers...
Gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women, and we need data to hold tech companies accountable. Viz for Social Good collaborated with Dear Tech People to visualize diversity...
The visualization deals with the World worries, showing the results of the survey 'What Worries the World' which analyzes the 15 major sources of concern in 25 countries. For each country are...
In Tanzania LGBTQ people face discrimination and persecution. #IamBinadam (which means #IamHuman in Swahili) highlights the stigma experienced by LGBTQ Tanzanians and aims to foster empathy among...
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others who aren’t like us (or who are), no matter how small the tidbits. Select sex, age group, and race to see the demographics of...
“MeToomentum” is a self-initiated data visualization project exploring themes, geographical footprint and key moments of the popular social Movement #MeToo. In a World where sexual abuse and...
A healthy Twitter conversation can be seen as one with long chains of replies that have little to no toxic messaging. For a conference talk urging cultivation of healthier conversations, I...
No matter where you are on Earth, we all look up to the same sky during the dark nights. You might see a different section of it, nevertheless the stars have always fascinated humans. And even...
“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads.
The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...
A study on the non-invertibility of translation between languages, Loss in Translation analyzes how the top thousand nouns in English are translated to other languages and back. This is interesting...
After having discovered that his steps were being monitored by a smartphone, he decided to take advantage of all unused collected data.
Believing in the value of simplicity and following the...
Being an expat in the UK, 'how a society treats outsiders and minority groups' has become one of the subjects that I care about the most. South Korea, my home country, in my memory wasn't the...
The writer Victor Hugo advised looking for letters to know someone's personality because there were the marks of his heart. Now we do not write so many letters but whasaps. This infographic counts...
The project intends to convey and communicate advice on how to live a healthier and balanced life: contact with nature and its cycles, healthy feeding, physical exercise, good rest, practice of art...
As a Chinese-Canadian, I am always thinking of fun ways to learn Chinese. I have developed a method of learning Chinese characters from songs. The overall learning process can be both fun and...
The Sole 24 Ore website publishes an interactive map with all the interventions that can be carried out in a free building regime, based on the single glossary defined by the Ministry of...
What is the far right talking about on Twitter? The SPLC Hate Tracker visualizes activity around hashtags on Twitter by aggregating data on users identified by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)...
Many find themselves arguing with someone on the Internet, especially in these days fraught with political tensions. A great tool, the web also seems to drive dispute. A classic essay from one of...