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...
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...
Como resultado de una investigación acerca del lenguaje humano y la percepción del significado, se ha desarrollado Versolid. Un sistema de representación visual que permite traducir mediante...
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,...
The transgender community is one of the oldest communities in India. It comprises of Hijras, eunuchs, Kothis, Aravanis, etc (M. Michelraj, 2015). All members of these subgroups face severe...
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...
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...
Zhang Jian advocated "industry to save the country" and "education to build up the nation", and was an early pioneer in the field of cotton textile and education in China. He made great...
What will really increase your average life expectancy and lifespan? Why do women live longer than men? What’s the best method of life extension? Diet and exercise? Or polygamy and pets? Let the...
I created a comic series that explores a range of data literacy concepts that's accessible to those who don't consider themselves "data people." We follow Becky, who describes herself as a bit...
Using over half a million articles from The Guardian we show the change in the newspaper’s coverage of women within sections of the paper relating to the creative industries. The gender mix has...
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...
Bauhaus is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019. This work intends to shed some light on the female students as their contribution to Bauhaus and their story are barely recognised...
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,...
Connecting Speckles is a data selfie. A data selfie is a visual representation of oneself with an underlying narrative or theme of what the individual wants to convert about themselves or a...
Beyond the most popular Chinatowns of major cities, including those of Manhattan, New York and San Francisco, California, the United States once contained over fifty self-described Chinatowns in...
Our annual Kuijpers family get together is approaching and this year I’ve been working on this idea to visualize my family tree in a more challenging way. And since I can’t memorize all family...
I’ve always had a special relationship of curiosity and affection towards languages.
Languages can be seen as living structures. They develop in a given context, they evolve, they change and...
Using census data we created a voronoi tessellation of majority race data and then mapped it at the national and local level. Maps reveal macro- and micro-views of how people live in the United...
Special forces play an important role in the world's increasingly complex military relations. This illustration is intended to give people a better understanding of the equipment carried by the...
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...
More than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, according to results of a study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in...
An interactive and exploratory data visualization of one month of my life. Data from multiple sources was combined to generate a single view demonstrating sleeping patterns, eating habits,...
In the midst of the #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd social movement, I became interested in visualizing and analyzing data related to police involved deaths in the United States. In using the unique Fatal...
This projects highlights the vast disparities between the number of Nobel Prizes won by women as opposed to men. It has been designed to immediately highlight the differences within categories and...
This visualisation looks back at four years of the Tableau project, Viz For Social Good - a project that aims to help non-profits by connecting them with data viz professionals who give their time...
We developed an application for Audipress to visualize data, collected on a quarterly basis by Doxa, on the readership of newspapers and magazines in Italy. Through 14 different interactive views,...
Dissecting thoughts through languages: Consciously extracting and quantifying the components of the languages I use on a daily basis.
In this project, I looked at my WhatsApp messages and voice...
Online dating consists of ups and downs, fun and disappointment, excessive swiping and digital detox. Viewed over a long period of time, a construct of recurring behavior patterns, habits and...
Have you ever wondered if you are using an app too often? Over 50 000 Tinder users did wonder and used our data analytics and visualization tool to find out more about their own dating...