As large amounts of genealogical data made open, people could trace back their family roots. Our data source is the China Biographical Database of Harvard University. We further explored the...

In Nice to Meet You, we visualize measures of ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity across 250 countries and territories in the world. We intuitively understand that what...

A series of articles and graphics for BBC Future about the long view of humanity. Looking at populations and civilisation collapse. In the first article we want to get across the scale looking at...

An interactive visualization showing the number of births for every day of each year between 1994 and 2014. 1994 begins in the center as a radial area chart. Each year then stacks on top of it,...

The U.S. Supreme Court shut down a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The country-wide population count that takes place every ten...

Lord rabbit is very traditional of Beijing and has become one of the most representative Beijing non-material cultural heritage. We chose to use it as a subject. The purpose of the work is in the...

During Russia's centuries‑long history, its ethnic composition has changed repeatedly. At the moment, there are over 190 ethnic groups in Russia who speak 150 languages belonging to 13 language...

The project 'Pantheon' visualizes information about top 1000 of the globally known people born within present day the world. The visualization is based on data of Massachussets Institute of...

For the postmillennial generation of 13- to 21-year-olds, the choices are endless. From what to buy to whose politics to support to which shows to watch, Gen Z has an endless flow of information at...

Evolution of Facebook friendship connections over the years. A simple, quick and hypnotizing video.

With the release of the annual health report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I looked at the subcategories of mortality, as defined by the World Health Organization, focusing...

216/5000 As a kind of non-material wealth, Dalian dialect is the carrier of regional culture, and its scope and frequency of application are shrinking. This map describes the development process...

Bauhaus is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019. This work intends to shed some light on the female students as their contribution to Bauhaus and their story are barely recognised...

Navigate through a dynamic and interactive space of vibrant intangible cultural heritage practices and expressions. See how together they represent a rich cultural diversity. This collection of...

The exhibition “Gender and Violence” at the Museum of Military History in Dresden addressed acts of violence and the place of gender roles and gender prejudices within this theme. With this, it...

With a large data-art landscape and accompanying charts I show the data on suicide numbers of 2017 from the Netherlands. Elements like trees, waves and clouds represent the categories of suicide...

[released Apr 26 2018] Us­ing a set of in­ter­ac­tive vi­su­al­isa­tions this interactive report shows var­i­ous as­pects of the «topog­ra­phy of in­sti­tu­tions» involved in the phenomenon of...

You traverse an American’s family tree, and eventually you find an immigrant. And most of the time, you don’t have to go back that far. So … what if everyone went back where they came...

Using over half a million articles from The Guardian we show the change in the newspaper’s coverage of women within sections of the paper relating to the creative industries. The gender mix has...

Outrage|Us is a visualization tool that uses machine learning to identify, measure, track and contextualize anger and hate speech on Twitter.

I analyzed the "um's" I used during a talk I gave at the 2018 Tableau conference, noting the average number of um's per minute, their increase over time, and the relationship between the um's and...

More than 2,300 political parties were registered to participate in the largest election of 2019. To help voters identify their candidate of choice, India’s election commission assigns visual...

Only two cities have had the distinction of being named the most populous city in the United States. The first one was Philadelphia, estimated to be the biggest city in the country at the time of...

There is a strong belief in South Korea that education is the key to a better future. However, our visualisation of longitudinal survey data reveals that ever since the Asian Financial Crisis...

Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...

#Cuentalo was a social media viral phenomenon, with tens of thousands of women openly telling their own experiences of sexual harassment and violence--many for the first time in their lives. We...

For their ten year anniversary issue, WIRED magazine asked me to create a detailed visualization to accompany an article about how the UK tech industry has flourished over the last decade. The...

Also women can harass men in different type of ways, but it seems that no one is willing to talk about it. Just like concrete, men are stereotypically considered strong, unbreakable. Bu exactly...

A data visualization essay exploring Brussels and its people. It shows how diverse and culturally rich Brussels can be. It provides plain facts that make you proud to live in this city while...

The clustering of instruments by gender reflects prejudices that date back to the 19th century, or earlier. Women were discouraged from playing instruments that might distort their facial features,...