The 20th anniversary of the publication of the first draft of the human genome offers an opportunity to track how the project has empowered research into the genetic roots of human disease, changed...

The first thousand days of a child are the most important to guarantee healthy development. IMAPI is a Nurturing Care Municipality Index that combines over 100 metrics that are strongly related to...

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...

​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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

A deep dive into the history of tornados.

The annual number of deaths of children under 5 years of age around the globe decreased from 19.6 million in 1950 to 5.4 million in 2017, a change of nearly 72%! Undoubtedly the decrease in child...

The first issue of Nature was published in November 1869. Our 150th anniversary issue explored the past, present and future of Nature and of science. A data graphic analysis of the archive shows...

The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901. How strongly are women represented? Who were the youngest and oldest winners? And where is the best place to do research? A data analysis with creative...

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...

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...

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...

PageRank Algorithm Visualization is a project with the aim to make visible and comprehensible the functioning of “Page Rank”, ex Google’s algorithm. A 2D poster game interactive visualization to...

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...

Two Soviet steppe tortoises had already flown around the moon by the time Neil Armstrong set foot on it in 1969. Initial animal studies focused on adaptability to and logistics of travel as many...

This story explains what people worldwide have been feeling in 2021, based on Gallup’s World Happiness Report. In addition, it also lets people compare with others and explore further. I used a...

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....

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 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...

As part of our light-hearted Christmas issue in 2020, we published an article investigating the toxological impacts of the ingredients of George’s Marvellous Medicine from Roald Dahl’s famous book....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...