As young researchers, we all strive to aim high in our careers. But how high may we plan? This project was born out of curiosity to see what statistics say about our chances to be published in...
PeCan Knowledge Base: Making sense of complex genomics
PeCan Knowledge Base (PeCan) on St. Jude Cloud (part of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) is a pioneering resource that began as a...
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) interface is the cornerstone tool of the medical consultation, through which clinicians review, collect, interpret and curate patient data. Widespread criticism...
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.
The advent of...
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...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently released their “State of World Population 2023” report. This report, produced by a group of external advisers, researchers and writers, working...
This self developed website breaks down the inner workings of a wind turbine in a fun and innovative way. After a quick scrollytelling you can explore a 3D model of the turbine and adjust...
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...
Last April was the 50 years anniversary of the first call done by Martin Cooper using the first mobile phone in history, which was big as a brick.
I wanted to find out more about that first model,...
Toxic levels of air pollution contribute to serious health complications and premature deaths.
In the UK, the legal level of air pollution (measured by PM 2.5*) is currently 20µg/m3, with...
How does it feel to not hear? According to Xu Kaifeng, a person with near-total deafness, living in a world without sound feels like you don't exist at all. For those with healthy ears, it's hard...
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...
Lab24, the visual area of Il Sole 24 Ore, has published “La Guerra dei chip”, a longform that explains why semiconductors are the most valuable and disputed piece of technology today, with analysis...
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...
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...
For at least 9,000 years agaves have been an integral part of Mesoamerican culture, identity, and tradition, supporting rural communities and healthy ecosystems. In Mexico today, intensive farming...
In October 2021, the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME) published a report highlighting the huge impact of noise on people’s health in France. According to the report, noise in France...
Space debris poses a threat to both satellites and future space missions. The littering of space with defunct satellites and old rockets has accelerated dramatically these last years, mainly due to...
After 50 years of relative quiet, La Palma—one of the youngest
and most volcanically active islands in the Canaries—saw a
dramatic eruption in 2021. The event was one of the most dev-
astating...
In the wake of the rapid advancements of AI technologies and multiple reports of their issues, regulation efforts are currently catching up. Hence, I wanted to visualize the current progress of...
Since 2022, global reports of medication shortages have surged, affecting countries like Australia, Canada, USA, China, Japan, and Europe. Antibiotics, critical for saving lives, have been...
As the amount of personal data held by governments and companies continues to grow, the personal and systemic cost of not securing this information properly also mounts. ABC News Story Lab...
We used 3D modelled cylinders to represent the victims of sexual abuse in the UK's National Health Service recorded by health trusts. Working collaboratively to a tight deadline we used stark...
In June 2023 the sky over New York City turned dark red. In this graphic analysis, we show why dust clouds cover one of the largest cities in the world.
When we tried to tell the story of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s business empire, we had a dilemma. His holdings are so vast, the products traced back to his companies so numerous, it couldn’t...
This is an interactive summary chronicling the evolution of the A.I. field from the 1950s until the present day.
For each decade, key technical milestone events, pop-culture inspirations in film...
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.
The advent of...
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...
Reuters documented and analysed more than 10,000 aftershocks that struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria in the weeks after the two massive earthquakes in February.
The team were able to...