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...
The ENTITY MAPPER is an open source web application for visualizing qualitative data as an interactive node-link diagram. By abstracting away the time-consuming process of constructing a...
Wide-ranging applications of data science bring utopian proposals of a world free from bias, but in reality, machine learning models reproduce the inequalities that shape the data they’re fed. Can...
WE ARE ALONE ARE WE? is a set of four visualizations on the questions behind the search for extraterrestrial life: Is there any? How could we reach them? What would they look like? And how would we...
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...
Medical School is extremely competitive. You need to have nearly perfect grades and MCAT scores. Then there is an overwhelming number of schools to consider. Inspired by Priestley this chart tries...
Centuries ago cities designated 12pm as the moment the Sun reached its highest point overhead. These days that would be too inconvenient, and thus we have time zones. However, depending on...
A visualization of wind direction, frequency, and speed at the airports of nine major cities in the US from January to October, 2018. Cities in include New York, Charlotte, Jacksonville,...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have defied easy categorization since they burst into the public consciousness last year, fueling an intense debate over how they should fit into the average...
For the past two and half years, the world has been overtaken by an unprecedented global pandemic that changed our behaviors, economies, and uprooted our lives. From the start, scientists and...
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...
This story explains how and why hunching over your phone is destroying your posture and exposing those around you to manifold dangers. Data, diagrams, videos and animation show how and why we get...
The Ring Central Global Business Activity Visualization was designed as a large-screen lobby display showing the aggregates global business activity data (including phone, text and Glip, a...
Liquid Gold was built for this year’s World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week runs annually in August and is designed to bring awareness to breastfeeding and its benefits and the...
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...
How do we begin to evaluate the impact of autonomous vehicles and shared mobility services on congestion? How do we embrace the uncertainty surrounding these new mobility technologies?
Cities...
Since the 1970's there have been attempts to introduce a kind of a unitary patent; all unsuccessful. Will it be different this time? Will the UK participate regardless of Brexit? Interestingly,...
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...
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...
‘Meat the Future’ is an infographic design based on the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) data of ‘World Meat Consumption and Production’. The design is intended to...
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...
As a key figure in the IPCC Synthesis Report, Figure SPM1, panel c, captured global media attention and inspired many related visualizations. Figure SPM1c breaks new ground for IPCC as it ties...
«Energy industry in Ukraine» - our special issue that was fully dedicated to the issues and possibilities of the energy industry. The purpose of the report is to demonstrate our expertise and...
Our business model enables unprecedented data science, not only in recommendation systems, but also in human computation, resource management, inventory management, algorithmic fashion design and...
Research on creativity has shown that people tend to produce their most important works when they are young. This is true for scientists too. But a new study finds that this is simply because...
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...