This is a data- and research-driven story about the way we think about college students' upward mobility. For instance, how colleges can be a finishing school for the affluent. It uses charts and...

These are four interactive data visualizations that are based on the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary. The application provides additional information on the authors of...

Analysis and comparison of the word usage in six of the world's major sacred texts—Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), Bible (Judaism and Christianity), Dhammapada (Buddhism), Quran (Islam), Tao Te Ching...

Where are the gaps and opportunities in plus sized clothing? For the demographic with the most purchasing power, determining the right style fit is absolutely priceless. It's time for the industry...

This is an interactive visualization of a thesaurus – the view highlights the relationship between central search word and its reference to other words used within the dataset. A query word is...

Around 3 months into my backpacking trip, I was wandering around in Ukraine while trying to learn a few words. As hard as I tried, I would butcher the simplest of phrases such as "Good day"...

I initially created this map for a GISMO exhibit at the Queens Museum, "Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World". There, the map existed in print form and focused only on Queens. The data comes...

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in all spheres of social life. Men in...

Ever wonder if we can quantify a gender bias in society? Using machine learning, we can generate word associations present in a given media source. By looking at those associations we can tell...

In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...

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...

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization deals with the World worries, showing the results of the survey "What...

Data Futures is a live experiment about the connections between our data and ourselves. It is run in conference settings, with a large, real-time visualization on a projector, two moderators...

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 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.” Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...

I went through the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction from 1950 to present, and for each year measured the ratio of books-written-by-women to books-written-by men and tracked that over...

Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.

In our previous research, we investigated different areas of the Facebook dispositif: algorithmic and human labor, the digital infrastructure behind the social network, and the exploitation of...

For me, this Design Mind Map is like a self-portrait. I sketched seven designers and one innovator who I admire, and then arranged them chronologically. All these designers have influenced me a lot....

  El País is the undisputed leader of the Spanish-language Internet conversation, according to the prestigious Global Opinion Leaders Index (GDI) in its 2016 edition, the results of which were...

The framework for diagnosing personality disorders is in need of an overhaul. Which of the top 10 are proposed for removal?

I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...

A perfect hourglass is almost unheard of for plus sized fit. The majority of plus sized women identify with more disproportioned sizing that makes finding the perfect fit in tailored clothes almost...

Poster about veganism. The central image explains guidelines for how to carry out a healthy vegan diet, and the elements around it explain data related to this position.

The images shared on social media not only provide authentic brand assets that people are keen to engage with – they are also the most direct way of seeing the world through consumers’ eyes. To...