This animated data visualisation highlights places in the United States of America which are named after words in the constitution. It deliberately evolves slowly, gradually allowing the reader to...
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...
Brazil is the country with the largest number of murders of trans people. Expressing yourself as a member of the LGBT community in this country and fighting against homophobia is almost the same...
“Pizza Napoletana doesn’t have inventors, nor fathers, neither patrons, It’s the fruit of the Neapolitan people together.” - Antonio Pace
Did you know that you need to get certified to make true...
This data visualization is an encoded self-portrait. It is an interactive piece of data art that explores the concept of Intersectional feminism and the Matrix of Dominance. Using the metaphor of a...
We analyzed more than 382,000 headlines published between 2008 and 2021 from the top English-language news publications in India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States to see how...
In many languages the word for dad sounds similar. This led researchers to believe that it was due to a baby’s speech progression. For example sounds like baba or papa are easy to make for a small...
Places and street names define how a person interacts with a city. Often they are named after important personalities, gods, and goddesses. The project aims to study and visualize the distribution...
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"...
In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—we tried on what it would look...
While we all strive for it, happiness is a hard thing to achieve. This was especially true for 2020 which according to the Hedonometer was the saddest year on record. Living these sad thoughts...
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...
What role did the neighborhood you grew up in have in shaping your economic opportunities? Author Aaron Williams tells a data story about migration, community, and returning to your roots through...
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...
More than 70 years have passed since India gained independence from colonial rule, and many Indians believe that their country has successfully achieved one of its post-independence ideals: a...
Being an outspoken woman on Twitter is hard. To find out how hard, we gathered a day’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women — Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Tavleen Singh, and Madhu...
What we search for reveals something of ourselves: our interests, our fears, our curiosity, or simply what we have forgotten. And it's not just what we search for, as how we search reveals...
In the last years, the way people communicate has radically transformed: thanks to digital technologies, and in particular online platforms, new relational possibilities have opened up, together...
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 infographic shows the etymological descent of the names of the deities worshiped by some historical civilizations, from those of the oldest Indo-European pantheon. For each Indo-European...
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...
Also women can harass men in different type of ways, but it seems that no one is willing to talk about it. Just like concrete, men are stereotypically considered strong, unbreakable. Bu exactly...
The social media landscape is much broader than one might imagine. Behind the big giants, there are hundreds of social media that like to declare themselves alternative by offering an option to...
The writer Victor Hugo advised looking for letters to know someone's personality because there were the marks of his heart. Now we do not write so many letters but whasaps. This infographic counts...
Modern colonialism began in the 15th century and
peaked in 1914, when Europeans ruled a majority of the
world’s countries. Decolonization began after World War I
and accelerated following World...
Stereotypes happen for a reason. A quick look at data from Statista confirms how Western media often label Arab women as shallow with outrageous taste in beauty standards. But there are cultural...
We teamed up with Census 2020 Data Co-op to design and build an embeddable map that displays Census data at the national level, as well as for states, counties, and census tracts. The Census data...
After having discovered that his steps were being monitored by a smartphone, he decided to take advantage of all unused collected data.
Believing in the value of simplicity and following the...