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...
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 Odyssee team invited 50 people from across the world to record their experiences—their activities and their feelings—for 30 days during the first peak of the pandemic (April-May 2020). Odyssee...
Media is often considered the fourth pillar of democracy and represents the voice of the common populous to shape the country's politics. And as for a country with vast diversity - India - the news...
A dot density map of top 10 languages spoken by persons aged 3 and above in London, United Kingdom. Each dot on the map represents 5 people per London Output Area, the smallest census geographic...
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...
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,...
Every city has its banner. The Think Summit’s City of Technology has something more: a 12 metres long interactive flag generated and powered by the ideas and hopes of its citizens. An innovative...
Ditch The Label joined forces with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million Tweets over a four-year period to explore the current climate of cyberbullying and hate speech online.
We used social data...
The mighty Habsburg empire helped to shape the cities, sights and stories of much of present-day Europe.We map four cross-continental sites where its impact has been felt most keenly, from the...
Online censorship consists of the control or the removal of certain contents that are accessible to the public. It exists because some governments and platforms want to regulate content. In...
April 9, 2022 is a special day. A very close friend of mine gave birth to her beautiful baby boy. While being pregnant, she measured her weight every day. We have a long history of doing data...
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...
This project is part of my M.Sc. graduation thesis in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. The research is developed around the contemporary debate on LGBT parenting: a current, delicate...
The State Library of New South Wales collects material to provide a documentary record of life in one of the largest Australian states. The documentary record of life in New South Wales is now,...
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...
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 maps show the comparative analysis of motorcycle accidents registered in Mexico City during 2018, 2019, 202 and 2021 according to the day of the week they occurred and the geographical location.
This astroclock simulates a geocentric model generally used in Astrology. A minute here is an year on earth. The scale or the calculations are not precise, and only for aesthetic purpose. The main...
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...
How does your birthplace affect your probability of being covered on Wikipedia? Having a Wikipedia page can be a sign of how successful you are in certain aspects of life. We know that the...
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...
How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...
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...
The Lunaapahkiing Princeton Timetree presents the intertwined relations between the Native peoples of Lunaapahkiing and Princeton University, established on its present unceded Native land in 1756....
X-DATA’s Data Lab, a Mexican data analytics studio, is the place of experimentation that led to the creation of the first data visualization project focused on Mexican gastronomy and which was...
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,...
The exhibition “Gender and Violence” at the Museum of Military History in Dresden addressed acts of violence and the place of gender roles and gender prejudices within this theme. With this, it...