The Historical Marker Database tracks the location of markers that identify where historical events occurred. Many markers have since been reported, and in some cases confirmed, as missing. This...

In late June, Deb Roy approached me to ask if I would be interested in doing some visualization work for a presentation he’d be giving at Twitter’s all-hands event with Bridgit Mendler. The...

The Washington Post weighted the style of facial hair, or lack thereof, of all active ballplayers on a scale of 0 to 8 — zero being clean shaven, eight being the grizzliest — then calculated...

‘Deadly Disinformation: How online conspiracies about Syria cause real-world harm’ reveals how human rights defenders, victims of war crimes, journalists and humanitarians on the frontlines in...

The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...

In the runup to the summer games, Reuters showed how Tokyo brings a double whammy of heat and humidity to the olympic athletes, posing a high risk of heat illness. Olympic athletes were to...

For the French health insurance organization, Wedodata has created a complete interactive dashboard that offers an overview of the pathologies of French people over 5 years. For the first time,...

Imagine a world where machines can be controlled by thought alone. This is the promise of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)—using computers to decode and translate human thoughts into machine...

Brazil has one of the highest cesarean rates worldwide, with over 50% of births by C-section [1], many scheduled before labor begins. Research by the University of São Paulo, led by Professor...

Today’s cities are finding it hard to be both livable and economically strong. Not one has truly balanced people, profit, and the planet, according to a new report on an index that ranks cities by...

Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize winning musical created by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. I first heard this musical in 2009 and was instantly hooked. The story is about the Goodman family, a family...

The Vanishing Scales is a compelling infographic shedding light on pangolins, the most trafficked animal, highlighting their critical endangerment and urgent need for global conservation efforts.

To everything there is a season, and diseases are no different. Google search patterns show us what health issues people worry about, when they worry about them, and how epidemics spread through...

Inspired by Carni Klirs, I created a streamgraph of how I’ve spent my time since college. It feels more human than a typical resume. Women especially have competing demands when it comes to a...

This crocheted scarf is a personal data physicalization project created to celebrate the 2023 ski season—my first year back after dislocating a knee in 2022. Data was collected using the Slopes...

Sweet-to-look-at data visualizations of advertisements seen in one day. This project focuses on the execution of 3 separate data visualizations that express the same data but in very different...

“Eyes” is an interactive biometric data art that transforms human iris data into musical sound and 3D animated images. The idea is to allow the audience to explore their own identities through...

This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...

“How Faster Trains Draw China’s Cities Ever Closer” is a visual-dominated piece reviewing the changes of time-distances between China’s cities. China’s rapid development of high-speed railways...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

‘Things I love about my cat’ is a humorous quantified-self exploration of my relationship with my cat. I embarked on a whimsical journey to capture why I cherish her, focusing on the little joys...

I loved my grandmother's fresh kimchi. But as I aged, tasting the defining flavor of my childhood became elusive.

Streets and squares are an archive of both language and history. We discovered some fascinating patterns in the distribution of the 450,000 street names in Germany. They tell the story of almost...

A lo-fi visualization to illustrate using the language of data the expressive possibilities of developing a sensory-based technology for the digital fine artist. The data seen is selective, and...

For background color, I chose "red, black, white", which describe "blood, death, angel respectively. Then, the red line in the top of the picture looks like the flow of blood. Most importantly, the...

The purpose of this project is to represent and explain data quickly and effectively in a visual and interactive way that represents and tells a story about one particular aspect of Johannesburg....

Commissioned by Someone for Cancer Research UK, a data visualisation created for the cover of CRUK's 2016 Research Annual, showing the the far-reaching collaboration between scientists all across...

The piece is meant to be targeted to HR professionals to help understand the changing workforce. The data was meant to be clear and accessible in a straightforward way, and easily digestible. In...

Countries are competing globally to grow better talent, attract the talent they need, and retain those workers who contribute to competitiveness, innovation, and growth. This datavizualization...

The fingerprint is a hyperdense visual representation of the structural composition of a jupyter notebook article published in the Journal of Digital History. It functions both as an overview of...