Scientific studies have shown that bipolar mood switches can sync with the phases of the lunar cycle under certain circumstances. Since I live with bipolar, I tracked my mood for 72 days and...
Part 1 of The Bat Lands. A recent Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana highlights how the thirst for resources is driving destruction of the world’s most biodiverse areas and putting humans in...
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...
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...
In January 2011, protests broke out across Egypt to demand an end to the despotic and repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak. The protests were largely organized online, through social networks like...
"But what about protein?" is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions to vegetarians. The doubt arises from the simple view - surrounded by problems - that meat and eggs are the main...
This short data essay merges personal data with scientific research about sleep. The visualizations reflect on my sleep patterns during the final semester of (remote) university in comparison to...
Turkey’s deadliest quakes in modern times may have also unleashed a health catastrophe for generations to come. Asbestos, silica, mercury and lead are among thousands of toxins released by the huge...
A double-page graphical Timeline of over 100 Darknet markets offering drugs. The purpose was to try and show how prolific the darknet market is and how new marketplaces quickly took the place of...
A series of visualizations to accompany the conclusions of a report by Unearthed & Public Eye on the sales of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) by the CropLife companies. The main visuals...
As part of a classroom assignment to visually represent a data set, I took up the challenge of conceptually redesigning the Nutrition Label found on packaged food products, issued by the FDA. The...
Some animal groups have displayed more than 20 ways of using tools while others demonstrate just a few, scientists say.
Orangutans borrow canoes to forage for aquatic plants. Octopuses carry...
This was a data-driven explainer detailing what “psychobehavioral segmentation” is and how we can use this approach to drive vaccine uptake. Rather than just looking at demographics, the approach...
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...
The infographic shows that, after excluding the geographical latitude factor which indicated the strongest correlation, the most significant correlation was between per capita car ownership and...
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...
An interactive essay that walks a reader through the process of building a histogram, from an unordered clump of values to the finished chart. The essay highlights how parameter choices throughout...
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...
The dashboard serves to illustrate the trends and attributes of blood donor activity in Malaysia. The availability of an ample supply of blood is of importance for the efficient functioning of the...
Our World in Data publish yearly stats on energy usage by country and energy source type (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), and this makes for an intimidating dataset on an increasingly urgent...
This work presents changes of the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth's surface during the year. It is aiming to explain what causes the change of seasons.
I calculated the angle of...
Resurfacing the Past is a data-driven story that explores the naval history of World War II. Underpinning the story is a manually curated dataset of more than 15,000 sunken ships. By visualizing...
There's a good chance you experienced an earthquake today. Every day there are hundreds of thousands of earthquakes all over the world, except most are so small they are never felt. But what...
This browser-based computer simulation lets the reader explore for themselves how various infectious diseases spread and what the effect of vaccination is. It demonstrates that the decision to...
"Deep Space" is based on a hypothetically developed vision of the future on the planet Mars in the year 2100, assuming a dystopian past of the planet Earth and humanity and defining it as a search...
The Natural Resources Inventory is an interactive collection of metrics and data visualisations that depict the stock, value and use of Queensland’s natural resources.
It is the world’s first...
At any one moment in time, thousands of measurements are being taken of the world’s weather. Across land, sea and sky, data is being gathered manually and automatically using a range of...
COMMIT is a data visualization and sonification work created by Ren Yuan. By getting the commit history of more than 400 developers on the Processing, p5.js, Processing.py and Processing for...
This Tableau project summarizes my four-year Ph.D. project, exploring the key metabolic features of a recently discovered bacterial lineage, Dehalobacteriia. These bacteria are found predominantly...