In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit, Sputnik I. Its batteries kept it running for three weeks. However, the longest active satellite was put into...
This (static) visualization shows the almost 3000 satellites that were still active in space around September 1st, 2020. By turning each satellite into a separate circle, but grouping them by the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
As part of my semesters project, I created infographics explaining the european interconnected system. The project contains three posters, a give-away product and one explanatory book. The aim of...
Rising deductibles and out-of-pocket costs are increasingly leaving patients responsible for bloated medical bills. A new analysis by Johns Hopkins University reveals that many of the top 100...
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...
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 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...
A visual summary of the fallen meteorites on Earth from 1400 until 2013. The website is composed using different Javascript libraries to have a creative and classic approach to data.
Firstly, an...
This datavisualisation shows the age, gender, and experience (number and duration of missions) of astronauts. It mimics a galaxy and highlights key patterns in the data: the oldest, youngest and...
Epigenetics is a field of research that examines molecular changes in the genome that are influenced by external factors such as nutrition or stress. The latest research results offer great...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Our data visualisation for Nature’s feature shows how such ‘planetary health’ diet should look like according to researchers and how it compares...
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...
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,...
The History of Space Exploration is hard to capture in one place, let alone define! Here you can view at a glance the growth of space exploration across countries and time.
Space exploration...
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.
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 visualization shows the incredible patterns created by the relative orbital positions of different pairs of planets in our solar system. Each section represents a different pairing and the...
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...
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.
Using data from water sampling tests conducted by volunteers and members of Estuario, a conservation non-profit in Puerto Rico. Metrics assessed include bacteria levels, chemical compositions and...