We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...

Moving Madness is a data visualization of my first month in another country and what a rollercoaster it was. In 2022, I packed my bags and moved across world for my masters program. The data...

CONTEXT: The ocean has a strong influence on Earth's weather and climate, affecting our daily weather and shaping long-term climate changes. In the realm of scientific studies, acquiring the...

We analyzed daily top 50 Mandarin music charts from Taiwan’s largest streaming platform, KKBOX, spanning from 2005 to the present, to showcase two decades of shifts in Taiwanese pop music. From the...

If Venezuela hadn’t introduced a new Bolivar note and removed five zeros from the currency a stack of notes to pay the minimum wage would have stood almost 20 metres high. We use visual comparisons...

This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years. Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...

The work "IMDB Top Movies" presents the highest-rated movies from imdb.com. It examines movies with a rating of 7.5 or higher, which received 50,000+ votes. In total, just over 1000 films are...

This project stems from a Datatón focused on childhood and adolescence in Mexico in 2023. It is aimed at researchers, decision-makers, and individuals with an interest in obtaining preventive...

This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. This network-graph visualisation depicts the mental library of the...

Shrinking glaciers, a changing economy and environmental worries are forcing the Bhutanese to question whether their dependence on hydropower is the realistic way forward. This is a story of a...

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In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists commissioned artist Martyl Langsdorf to create a design for their magazine’s cover, and the Doomsday Clock was born; a boldy simple depiction where...

The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....

Climate change continues to pose a significant challenge, especially in India which is highly vulnerable to climate extremities. However, active steps can be taken to mitigate the effects of...

Hill Mapper is an interactive online map of hilly streets in San Francisco. My goal was to show both the steepness of hills and the direction of their incline, using a design that would be more...

Commit is a series of visualization and sonification works based on GitHub commit history. By analyzing developers' code commit data on GitHub, the work uses data-driven generation to generate...

How Humans Are Causing Climate Change “The primary driver of global warming is the human emission of greenhouse gases,” says Dr Noah Diffenbaugh, Professor of Earth Systems Science at Stanford...

When Didi Chuxing merged with Uber China in a $35 billion mega-merger it further complicated the already interconnected world of ride-hailing, tech, and transportation. Business Insider compiled...

A visualisation of search trends and patterns for health issues via Google searches. The project explains how seasonal factors can affect the interest in certain diseases and tells the story of...

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...

This animation of an “infinite map”—a “data dream”—depicts the density of restaurants in central Tokyo, with an imaginative twist: it’s morphed into a traditional Japanese ramen dish. This creative...

This is an "interactive data comic narrative" of the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank on the challenges women face in the quest for economic opportunity around the world.

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

Greg Wyler’s first space Internet startup, O3b Networks, has positioned a ring of satellites in medium-earth orbit around the equator—high enough to cover large portions of the planet, but not...

“ZOOM-CALL-LOOK” Data Visualization Project focuses on the evolution and impact of the make-up usage and dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic. The whole project started by a data collection based...

More frequent and intense extreme heat is one of the major impacts of climate change. To assess how the incidence of extreme heat has changed over time, Carbon Brief examined which regions...

In just two decades of the new century, Russia did come so far. And so did it’s people’s lifestyle and social structure which changed along with rising economic well being. This long read is an...

What makes a great city? Is it political stability? Low crime rates? Access to education or healthcare? We took one metric, looking at how easy it is for people to move within cities. We calculated...

As part of an ongoing project to tell fictional stories through Data Visualisation, I thought I'd see if I could tell the story of the Hobbit through charts and infographics with the war between...