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...

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...

Every year since 2010, software provider Adobe has published its Digital Trends Report: results of an international survey taken by marketing, advertising, e–commerce, creative, and technology...

Over a century before the mis-marketing of OxyContin dominated news outlets, the nation faced its first widespread opioid epidemic. The emergence, exploitation, and eruption of both epidemics...

In March 1965, Voskhod 2 and its two passengers spun around the Earth for just over a day. A few minutes of that remarkable journey made history. As the spacecraft made one of its 17 orbits,...

This data visualization focuses on the maternal mortality rates across the globe and sheds light on factors that play an important role in its prevalence, as well as causes of death. Maternal...

Land animals have developed countless solutions to a single challenge: how best to get from one place to another. Modes of travel vary depending on an animal’s size and environment, with the goal...

This is a visualization of unicorn companies (companies with a valuation of over $1 Billion USD. This visualization demonstrates the sharp increase in the number of unicorns in recent years. This...

Where do cosmic X-rays come from? Every new unidentified X-ray source has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the universe. Astronomers thus aimed at automatically classifying new...

For the past two and half years, the world has been overtaken by an unprecedented global pandemic that changed our behaviors, economies, and uprooted our lives. From the start, scientists and...

This infographic introduces the function, the history, and the key features of Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The interactive map shows the origin and amount of seeds of the top 8 genera.

This project is called Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to analyze Unsub data. Unsub is a collection analysis tool that many academic libraries use to analyze their journal...

The 2016 passage of General Data Protection Regulations in the EU put into effect the strictest data privacy laws in the world. In the years since, more countries—including the U.S., Brazil, and...

This work is a highly interactive exploration of the class of arachnids, based on the Data retrieved from the collaborative generalist database WikiData. The user can expand genders and sub-genders...

The Fungi Universe visualizes the fungi taxonomy in a circular dendrogram that spans from moulds to edible mushrooms. Each taxonomy level builds outward with a lighter shade of grey for subkingdom,...

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...

AZUL is a grassroots organization working with Latinos to conserve marine resources. This data reflects a survey of US Latinos and their thoughts on climate change & ocean conservation in 2022

The diagram shows the Formal Conceptual Distance between Gastroenterology Concepts in SNOMED CT. The colors are levels in the hierarchy and the lines represent the relative formal conceptual...

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...

An interactive data visualization piece of 173 maps and 63 charts that present the country's health infrastructure (hospital, hospital beds, number of doctors) at a microregional level for each of...

In 2017, a study sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) found that "alcohol use disorder" (AUD) had increased 83.7% amongst American women between 2002 and...

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...

Guide dogs are strictly trained dogs and are a type of working dog. I try to introduce guide dogs to the people through information design so that we know how to treat them when we meet them in our...

Taste is a complex 4 dimensional experience. Different parts of the tongue, mouth and nasal cavity detect different aspects of flavour, scent and texture independently, yet together form a complete...

I created this 3D visualization entirely in R, using the rayrender package (a software package that I also wrote and have released to the community). I also used the geojsonsf R package to convert...

It has become common to say "I'm depressed" when we mean "I'm sad" and therefore underestimate just how severe depression is and how harmful it can be. This viz takes a look at depression: the...

The work takes "acupuncture" as the theme, and takes 64 kinds of diseases, 59 kinds of complications, 361 normal meridians, 52 ear points, 15 human meridians, 6 kinds of basic acupuncture methods,...

Addiction recovery has traditionally been quantified by counting days of sobriety. This project is focused on showcasing a new measure being introduced to the addiction recovery community that...

A free virtual experience for science communication that visualizes X-ray data of astronomical objects from the ESA satellite XMM-Newton. Data of over 1,000 astronomical X-ray sources generate...

In this visualization, health indicators from Mexico's federal database as GDP percentage assigned to public health, public spending on health percentage of total public spending, and per capita...