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...
In México, 2,217,280 agrarian subjects deposited their inheritance list during 2020 (611,663 women, 27.6%, and 1,605,617 men, 72.4%). Veracruz is the state with the highest number: 178,684 (45,459...
Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this?
"To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...
A data visualization essay exploring Brussels and its people. It shows how diverse and culturally rich Brussels can be. It provides plain facts that make you proud to live in this city while...
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...
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...
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...
Dowry is official illegal in India, yet it remains common. Even in Delhi, the country's modernizing capital, 1,330 dowry cases were registered with the police in the first 6 months of 2017,...
This infographic shows a wide collection of writing systems, arranged accordingly to their respective phylogenetic relationships. Lines skirting the outer edge represent existing systems, while...
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,...
A healthy Twitter conversation can be seen as one with long chains of replies that have little to no toxic messaging. For a conference talk urging cultivation of healthier conversations, I...
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 is an interactive narrative that delves into the contrasting lives of Romanians immediately after the collapse of communism in 1989 and their present-day counterparts across key aspects of...
This visualisation analyses the emotional and language tone of the speech transcript. According to observers, as King neared the end of the speech, the address was failing to achieve the resonance...
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...
This piece explores job prospects for male and female college graduates. Through extensive data analysis, research and reporting, it finds that the careers that college-educated women take tend to...
The concept behind these two data arts pieces is quite simple. I find it remarkable that we rarely celebrate parenting milestones to the same extent that we celebrate birthdays. For me the journey...
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...
When I Was Your Age is a data visualization project focused on understanding the difference in spending habits of the average American across generations. The project uses public data from...
The way we speak has an enormous effect on our identities. As part of a series on digital identity, we used a UNESCO dataset and D3.js to create a visual essay about the world's endangered...
Crimes are a reflection of the period and society in which they occur. What happened, the objects and people involved, the location, how it was reported, all tell us something about the values,...
Keep Your Roots is an infographic that tracks how native language is lost in each generation. From surveying 70 Asian-Americans, aged 18–30 in California, the majority of their loss was due to the...
Newspapers are still at large in India despite the digital takeover. This visualization aims to portray the circulation of newspapers across different states and UTs(Union Territories) of India,...
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...
The theory of multiple intelligences differentiates human intelligence into specific "modalities". This theory, developed by Howard Gardner and commonly utilized in education, does not specifically...
Gaming has traditionally been considered a male-dominated pastime. With this work, we aim to shatter this misconception and present beautiful, visual evidence that women are a highly valuable...
This infographic presents the complex world of animal communication in all the forms in which it is known. The visualisation put emphasis on the structural characteristics that each code has, in...