We are immersed in a digital age where our data is collected, mined, and shared by companies trying to target and control our behaviors. To inform people about targeted advertisements, a...
Gaming has traditionally been considered a male-dominated pastime. With this work, we aim to shatter this misconception and present beautiful, visual evidence that women are a highly valuable...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is an "interactive data comic narrative" of the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank on the challenges women face in the quest for economic opportunity around the world.
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
Analyzing Mr. Jokowi's (President of Indonesia) word usage on Twitter. Mr. President is actively using his twitter account to talk about his programs and build communication between government 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...
Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this?
"To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A report from ETH Zurich recently re-published by Harvard economics department, mapping out the various ethnic groups around the world. We were curious how this might compare with modern...
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...
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 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...
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...