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,...
Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...
We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day. Reuters sourced, shredded, weighed then visualised real piles of plastic to illustrate how much enters our...
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...
Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is a key step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. Acknowledging this, a growing number of companies...
The work we do with our client, the Canadian Climate Institute, is always an opportunity to be bold, collaborative and to gain creative confidence. In this new project, the objective was to reveal...
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...
I am an astronomer working on a website to deliver stellar properties to the masses. While I was making a JS version of what we call an Hertzspring-Russell diagram, a plot of stars comparing their...
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...
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 visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The simple and powerful scatter plot graph analyses three metrics such as Internet...
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...
County-level data can be very rich, and detailed enough to extract meaningful geographic disparities and reveal distributions that may be problematic and require attention.
A county-level analysis...
The spread of COVID-19 has shed light on the issue of alarming lack of access to hospitals for those living in more sparsely populated regions of the country. While those in urban and eastern...
For centuries, medicine has failed women. Despite the many advancements we have made in society in recent decades, gender-biased healthcare is still a significant problem very few people are...
HIV is a global problem, but it is getting rampant in Russia. One of the key reasons is the lack of awareness and the taboo nature of the topic.
According to the UN, Russia has one of the...
This generative animation titled Perspective shows how many people in Singapore have experienced mental health issues in their life. Twenty silhouetted characters walk past the screen randomly, and...
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...
THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEM IC—ALSO KNOWN AS THE SPANISH FLU — wreaked havoc into 1920 and earned the dubious honor of being the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. In 2020, as many parts of the...
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...
Celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30-year anniversary with these visualizations that take a closer look into the telescope's long history, created for Physics Today.
The main visual is a...
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...
As part of its 150th anniversary, Nature, the world’s leading science journal, collaborated with network scientists led by Albert Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University in Boston. The...
Time and time again, Meta (nee Facebook) executives have promised to “do better” when it comes to content moderation. We worked with Tech Transparency Project—an initiative of non-profit,...
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 visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint and Photoshop. The viz conveys a detailed analysis of the chemical composition of...
Social Media Development (Worldwide/China)
The way people access information is changing at a rapid pace of technology development, with social media gradually replacing traditional media...
I love watching meteor showers and the magic that comes with them. While searching for more information on when to look at the sky to spot them, I came across a dataviz by Michela Lazzaroni...
This project aims to activate and tune smartphone users’ material intelligence through stories and objects that provoke them to think about their relationship with their devices – and by extension,...