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...
This is an interactive data story.
Leaders with low approval ratings get elected; movies that unleash religious outrage go on to break box-office records (ha!); movies that treat women like crap...
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...
Population ageing, driven by rising life expectancy, is a problem in all developed countries. Our interactive visualisation enables users to sort countries by life expectancy (purple circles). But...
Every city has its banner. The Think Summit’s City of Technology has something more: a 12 metres long interactive flag generated and powered by the ideas and hopes of its citizens. An innovative...
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...
In Australia, the debate about the generational divide is as heated as it ever was, stoked by stereotypical media-baiting — from the Baby Boomers who wrecked the world and stole all the wealth, to...
Building Hopes is an immersive data-art experience that invites people to materialize their hopes as permanent augmented reality sculptures and to use them as a lens to explore and understand...
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...
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,...
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...
For this year QiXi Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, we wanted to see what young Chinese are curious about when it comes to love. We collected 1139 questions from Zhihu, the largest online...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on various continents? I used the data and the theory presented by Jared Diamond to make this project to let people easily know his...
I produced a series of posters illustrating the narratives of well-recognised fairytales: “The Three Little Pigs”, “Cinderella” and “Goldilocks and The Three Bears.” I have visualised these...
What does 50 years of human migration look like? The ebb and flow of people across borders has long shaped our world. Data from the past 50 years of international migration help us understand why...
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...
In December of 1997 Ana Orantes goes to television show in Canal Sur for tell her testimony, a history about gender-violene, years and years of domestic violence. That testimony was her sentence of...
Faith not only plays an important role in an individual’s life but also contributes a great deal in shaping societies. The increased movement of people across borders in search of better...
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,...
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...
Deciding where to live in one of the most diverse states in the nation is no easy task. “The best town in N.J. … for you!” helps readers find their new hometowns through a variety of factors. The...
Issues like diversity and representation are often talked about in abstract terms. This project breaks down the issue of minority representation into numbers, by visualising the cast diversity 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...
In just two decades of the new century, Russia did come so far. And so did it’s people’s lifestyle and social structure which changed along with rising economic well being. This long read is an...
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...