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...
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...
Bruises is a collaboration between data visualization artist Giorgia Lupi, and musician and composer Kaki King.
Originated from an unlucky moment in King's life, when her three-year-old daughter...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Forms of Attraction clusters images from the MET's Costume Institute into items sharing similar form. This was done through machine learning to uncover new relationships between items beyond...
Through the Global Grand Challenges initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded 2,390 grants * so far in 90 countries.
Each grid on this image of Bill & Melinda represents...
These are a couple of polls inspired by the Sherman Kent CIA study shown in the images below (discussion in this thread). I was super happy when they matched up.
The raw data came from...
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...
“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...
SBS has released a new data feature All Work, No Stay? exploring the effects of rising temporary migration on Australia’s cultural and social identity, examining the history and impact of
the...
Our annual Kuijpers family get together is approaching and this year I’ve been working on this idea to visualize my family tree in a more challenging way. And since I can’t memorize all family...
Keep Your Roots is an infographic that tracks how native language is lost in each generation. From surveying 70 Asian-Americans, aged 18–30 in California, the majority of their loss was due to the...
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)...
Every weekend, Shanghai People’s Park will be packed by groups of people, who are mostly middle aged and have children that they deem should get married soon, if not already late, and who're in...
The richest people in the world found success at various ages.
Warren Buffett spent over 25 years as a millionaire before becoming a billionaire, while it took Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos less...
“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 microsite with to different visualizations provides information about different educational trajectories of high school pupils in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland). A Scrollytelling...
A series of infographics, developed for UNWOMEN’s new flagship report, 'Turning promises into action', uncover significant gaps for women’s empowerment. The infographic show how gender equality is...
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...
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a website dedicated to the social network of early modern Britain, 1500-1700. At sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com, scholars, students, and citizen humanists can...