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...
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...
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...
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...
The world’s population is getting older. Japan is on the forefront of this demographic trend that will affect Germany, China and Italy in coming years. This piece explains which countries are...
Miner’s Walk is an interactive documentary exploring the lives of Indonesian miners who trek the steep slopes of the Ijen Crater in search of sulphur.
In recent times the Ijen Crater has...
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...
How can we humanize mental health statistics? In our iOS app, we invite Canadians to create their own avatar and answer the same mental health questionnaire asked by the government. Once complete,...
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...
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...
There were some graphics going around that showed the total amount of time spent during an average person’s lifetime doing things. The numbers were pretty rough though.
For example, to calculate...
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...
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...
Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective.
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...
Life in Clay explores the possibilities of turning data about my life and the lives of my loved ones into functional pottery. My goal is to give our elusive personal data a physical presence by...
A microsite with to different visualizations provides information about different educational trajectories of high school pupils in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland). A Scrollytelling...
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...
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...
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,...
President Donald Trump announced July 27th that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces.
The decision reversed a policy...
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...
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...
"The Next Bechdel Test" was a months-long project searching for and testing ways to measure inclusion and representation in the American film industry. With input from professionals in and around...