This data visualization wreath depicts trans and gender-diverse lives lost in 2022, many due to anti-transgender violence. Each life lost is represented by a uniquely generated bald cypress...
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...
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...
Mom! For years, there was no other word I wanted to hear more. Three kids later, there may not be another word that I hear more often.
When the COVID pandemic hit Maine in March of 2020, my job...
This visualization celebrates Women's History Month by exploring the women astronauts who have made it to the other side of the atmosphere. The visualization looks into the backgrounds of these...
Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz tracks the American dialect in these...
When fertility rates drop and workers make up more than two-thirds of the population, a country with a functioning economy has a rare opportunity to invest in itself. China has already reaped this...
The International Mother Language Day is celeberated to promote linguistic and cultural diversity. This project explores the Bengali language. A movement for the conservation of Bengali language a...
Relying on memory, I feel like I mostly wasted my time or I didn’t have enough events where I could say, “Yeah, great year. I really enjoyed it!” That’s mostly because I’m forgetful, but data...
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...
During the pandemic and while working from home alone, I felt it was important to proactively set aside time for free thinking, away from deadlines and tasks. This graphic depicts one 15 minute...
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...
This infographic educates the audience on the history of Black hairstyles including braids, cornrows, afros, locs and straight hair and how they relate to Black-American history. For this project I...
Before 2022 the electoral geography of Ukraine is narrowed only to the differences between several regions, mostly East and West. This simplification draws artificial boundaries. However, the real...
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...
The language and cultural heritage has a particularly important protection value. The popularization of Putonghua is important, but we cannot abandon dialects and national art because of this. My...
“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...
This visualization shows a broad estimate of the amount of mutual intelligibility that is shared among closely related languages across Europe.
A short summary of the phylogenetic relationships is...
This infographic is one of the cutest and most romantic projects I've ever worked on. For his girlfriend's birthday, Robin asked me to design a visualization based on a dataset coming from their...
This wallchart is a celebration of global typography. It compares every major writing system used in the world today (as well as a few key historical ones) and is comprised of over 2000 symbols in...
For a whole year, Konda surveyed people in Turkey. After analyzing the data, they clustered life style groups, demographics, and other choices like cultural activity participation and alcohol...
Connecting Speckles is a data selfie. A data selfie is a visual representation of oneself with an underlying narrative or theme of what the individual wants to convert about themselves or a...
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,...
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
ADI Design Museum presents "Bìos - Sistema Design Italia," a video installation project created in collaboration with POLI.design - Sistema Design Politecnico di Milano and ADI Design...
People’s workdays tend to follow similar patterns. You wake up in the morning, get ready for the day, go to work for eight hours or so, and then go home. There are breaks in between. The 9 to 5,...
The work extracts the trails of every birdwatcher from the data of 460,000 birdwatching footprints in Chongming. It captures the nationwide birdwatching footprints of opinion leaders or Key Opinion...