People spend on average a third of their lives sleeping. During this time, a multitude of processes take place inside the body, which people are often not even aware of. One of the most complex...

​A color- and artful visualization of the cumulative travel time by cosmo- and astronauts from the first space mission in 1961 to 2019. ​​The distance and the size of the points encode the...

This interactive article presents a so-called “explorable explainer” of the k-means clustering algorithm. It attempts to push the envelope of how visual explanations can be designed on an...

Scientific studies have shown that bipolar mood switches can sync with the phases of the lunar cycle under certain circumstances. Since I live with bipolar, I tracked my mood for 72 days and...

In celebration of 100 years of bird banding, Scientific American (Jen Christiansen) commissioned me to create a visualization for the March 2021 edition. The Bird Banding Laboratory has been...

When the world wide web was first released publicly in 1991, it was quickly adopted. As technology advanced and its benefits became clear, many people started integrating the online world into...

A collaborative research effort between three organizations — Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), Duke University, and North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield (NCBCBS) — intended to shed light on...

‘A magnificent work of art design insight philosophy. Tufte discovers insights in ordinary graphics. Not only graphics, but lists and stacks, which take on new significance. The chapter on ethics...

This short data essay merges personal data with scientific research about sleep. The visualizations reflect on my sleep patterns during the final semester of (remote) university in comparison to...

The visual analyzes the most expensive medical procedures in the US for those without access to medical insurance. As a Canadian resident with access to free healthcare, I was intrigued after...

According to the relevant literature, suicides caused by people with psychological problems tend to occur around 4am, mainly because the impulsivity of suicide is linked to the human subconscious....

Cosmograph is a novel (and fastest) network graph visualization tool which can draw large networks consisting of up to 1 million nodes and several million edges in real-time. Even on a...

Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...

This work sprung from a database on the titles of papers of NBER programs. I kept only papers between 1980 and 2020, removed stopwords, and unified some terms. Then, I obtained the 5 most used...

As the WHO worked to uncover the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters created this data-driven, visually rich explainer on why bats make the ideal hosts for viruses.

I created this collection in honor of Albert Einstein who was born on pi day in 1879. That is why I chose to visualize the first 1879 digits of pi through circles and squares. This is my first...

People often talk about a dog’s behaviors as strongly associated with their breed or genetics. For example, the Golden Retriever is commonly thought to have a highly sociable, easy-to-train,...

This data physicalization (i.e. physical data visualization) illustrates the heat-dome-related deaths as reported to the BC Coroners Service between June/20/ 2021 and July/ 29/2021. According to...

The data visualization shows daily average food consumption of Mongolian population by urban and rural in 2020. It compares the daily average food consumption and recommended amount. The source...

The overall aim of the SENSES Toolkit — available under climatescenarios.org — is to make climate change scenarios more understandable, accessible, and usable. Climate change scenarios are a...

A series of visualizations to accompany the conclusions of a report by Unearthed & Public Eye on the sales of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) by the CropLife companies. The main visuals...

IEPS DATA is a state-of-the-art platform that democratizes health data to monitor and support evidence-informed policies in Brazil. It allows different stakeholders to explore, compare, monitor,...

This dual language (English/Russian) digital artwork visualises the flights and fates of all the known Soviet Space Dogs. The sad story of Laika, the first animal to go into orbit, is known...

Studio NAND worked with researchers from one of the largest university hospitals in Europe, Charité, and the Max PIanck Institute to tackle misinformation and misunderstanding of COVID-19...

The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2021. These temperatures are based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), an estimate of...

Climate change threatens the health of Canadians, and if we don't act quickly and address the root causes that put some people at increased risk, it could get worse over time. In 2021, the Canadian...

This is an interactive infographic which visualizes years of “impact investing” (socially responsible investment) in a horizontally-scrolling timeline. The project is an updated version of an...

A deep dive into the history of tornados.

Communities of color are disproportionately affected by factors that undermine opportunities for social and economic advancement. One of the most basic requirements to sustain a livelihood is...

The Banda Ultralarga (Ultrafast Broadband) Strategic Plan ("BUL") for Italy was announced in 2015 with a promise that by 2020, infrastructure to support broadband internet connection would reach...