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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
‘100 mujeres pioneras’ (100 Pioneering Women) is a visual approach to ‘No me cuentes cuentos’ (don't tell me stories) project. A Prodigioso Volcán and Kloshletter agencies initiative to highlight...
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...
This work is about the evolution and elaboration of armor in different parts of the body. In doing this work, I especially like GOT. In the process of looking at it, I think that one day I will...
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...
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...
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...