What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...
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...
Part 1 of The Bat Lands. A recent Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana highlights how the thirst for resources is driving destruction of the world’s most biodiverse areas and putting humans in...
Algorithms are an increasing part of our everyday lives.
They are constantly making decisions about us, yet they rarely explain their reasoning.
In this story, opaqueness is used as a...
Which environmental chemicals are most prevalent in the general population’s blood and urine? Which demographic groups have the most significant risk of exposure to environmental chemicals? The...
From the vast lakes of the US to the mangrove forests of Bangladesh, everything is at stake as the world heats up. In this piece for Earth Day 2023, we look at 16 species and landscapes at risk of...
Are the temperatures over the last few weeks normal? That’s the question the CBC News Climate Dashboard helps users answer by comparing the current forecast with historical data for around 500...
Adding comments - human readable descriptions - to code is good practice when writing code in any programming language. However, different programming languages use different symbols to indicate a...
Along with innovative scientific discoveries, the way in which these are depicted also requires a development in line with the times. Overgrown Tree - Evolution of Evolutionary Thinking is an...
The first chart shows the age and gender distribution of shooters in the United States from 1999 to 2022.
The radial line graph shows the differences in mental disorders according to gender,...
Health Care Cost Institute and The DataFace collaborated to create Health Care Vitals, an interactive dashboard that allows users to examine health care utilization trends across different...
A graph details the statistics of cancer, specifically the risk of developing the cancer in ones lifetime, the various causes of the different cancers and the degree to which they contribute. The...
Duke Lemur Center houses several hundred lemurs, many of them endangered species. This table explores of 27 of the species of lemur that have been housed there, showing the number of males and...
Three years ago, the coronavirus began quietly creeping through our communities. The virus would eventually take the lives of over one million Americans and leave millions more to navigate deep...
I'm very interested in the memory of the Web. I'm fascinated by the fact that millions of sites and pages created in the 2000s simply don't exist today. They've been erased from the Web's surface....
Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.
Humans are driving this...
Feeling hangry? From food cravings to brain fog, blood sugar spikes may be the cause. Graphics team members Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo teamed up to create this illustrated (and meticulously...
Part 4 of The Bat Lands. The Amazon, one of the most bat-diverse regions in the world, is under constant assault from deforestation yet no widespread viral outbreak has been documented there....
As a key figure in the IPCC Synthesis Report, Figure SPM1, panel c, captured global media attention and inspired many related visualizations. Figure SPM1c breaks new ground for IPCC as it ties...
Happiness is a deeply personal experience, yet everyone pursues happiness. Growing up in Beijing and living across the globe sparked my curiosity about the ways different cultures perceive and live...
This work started as a hobby data exploration done in the 3d software Houdini about a single glacier (the Careser) that I have a personal connection with – I climbed the Mt Cevedale several years...
A healthcare analysis dashboard of select sample data of California hospitals covering Utilization, Hospital Analysis, Inventory, and Rating. I worked to find public and sample data that could be...
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Vizlab created this scrolly-telling website to inform the public about streamflow drought and how it is monitored by the USGS. The website is set up so...
Part 2 of The Bat Lands. First it jumped from bats to pigs. Then pigs gave it to people. Now the brain-damaging Nipah virus has found a way to leap from bats to humans without an intermediary host....
Linear algebra and matrix computations are often presented in math class as an array of inane formulas and calculations to drill and memorize. This explorable explainer attempts to present a deeper...
There have been 61 Nobel Prizes awarded to 60 remarkable women for their exceptional accomplishments in their respective fields, of Science, Medicine, World Piece and the Literary Arts.
Explore...
This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...
Confusion matrix - in a way that is friendly to a non-technical audience (interactive, without VBA)
Confusion matrix is a decision-making tool, that helps us to solve classification problems in...
Merck can trace its roots all the way back to the seventeenth century when Friedrich Jacob Merck opened up shop as an apothecary in a small city in what is today southern Germany.
After the...