“Satellites Charts” examines current and past artificial satellites orbiting around Earth, pointing out how our terrestrial life became so dependent on what we sent out in space. With topics...
Making with Data is a physical data-driven papercraft sculpture that serves as the cover of our upcoming book, “Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data Driven World.” The paper waves...
Hear The Blind Spot is a data sonification experience that champions greater digital inclusion for visually impaired people in Ethiopia. It tells the story of a visually-impaired young woman called...
I learned last summer that the rescue dog who accompanied one of my favourite YouTube musicians had died. To pay tribute to her (and him), I made a slightly whimsical series of charts showcasing...
The number of cases is rising, more and more people are dying and yet: we read and write mainly about statistics and hardly about people. How can we bring humanity back to the emotionless...
Yaps and fin slaps, growls and groans—whales use a wide range of sounds to communicate. But only five whale species are known to sing, with humpbacks the unrivaled musical masters of the sea. This...
This infographic was an experiment in visualizing the flow of emotions in Edgar Allan Poe's iconic poem, The Raven. Using the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon to identify the prevalent...
2020 forced many of us into survival mode (think empty toilet paper shelves), and heightened our awareness of how vulnerable we actually are to securing basic necessities. This map documents all of...
‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...
Since music albums with cover art became the standard during the vinyl era, these two have become inextricably attached. Now, in the streaming era of digital distribution, a new call is open to...
This piece was created for 2022's Lunar New Year and used 42 mini line charts superimposed on the image of a tiger to give an overview of recent positive news during a time when I was often driven...
Did you know that more than 1,900 edible insects are consumed around the world? Did you also know that there are 1,400,000,000 to 1 insects for every person on Earth? This visualization is an ode...
This project represents a data art system that I made for Sony Music Entertainment to create data-driven re-imaginations of the ‘Gold record’, the record certifications plaques that celebrate...
This is a data art collection of 4 + 1, both hiding and revealing data about some of the most important elements that we humans (now) need to live; Earth, Water, Air, Sun + Digital. They all stem...
Every year Novartis, Roche and about 60 other pharmaceutical companies pay a lot of money to doctors and hospitals. Now imagine that this world of pharma money was a universe: what would it look...
I discovered a new Korean snack spot in Toronto called Chungchun Rice Hotdog. The rice hotdogs are made of a chewy rice flour batter that’s deep fried with a hotdog in the middle. During my first...
I spent an amazing vacation on the island of La Palma in 2019. And as a memento, I wanted to keep something else besides photos. So I collected statistics about the trip and made a set of five...
An experiment in cognition pitting human choice (with emotion) against machine random choice (without emotion). Explore the irrational aspects of human thinking behind the process and the answers....
Much of our Universe is too distant for anyone to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to understand what objects in our Universe are like in different types of...
Can sound and visuals be used in tandem to accurately convey what chronic migraines feel like to someone who has never had the experience? What can a migraine look like? Sound
like? Is there a...
It all began with a simple question, “Am I a reader or just another hoarder?”.
During the lockdown when all my belongings came to my house, I realized the number of books I owned. So, I decided...
A set of two plates — a gift for a loved one — tells how we corresponded during 2019. How many messages we sent each other in different periods of the year
One day I decided to analyze how much time I spend with my iPhone. I calculated the data for July 2020. As a result, I decided not only to reduce the time in social media, but also to turn the...
This visual, inspired by a Du Bois visualization from the 1900 Paris Expo, tracks the birthplaces of the Tuskegee Airmen to their base in Europe, reversing the path of slave trade shown in Du...
This is a comparison of different sectors of the economies of 27 EU countries, their pay levels, and gender balance. Representing data in an immersive way. I want people to feel, touch, and enjoy...
What if there are roads that match your veins?
Roads in You is an interactive biometric-data artwork that allows participants to scan their veins and find the roads that match their vein lines...
A visualization coloring cook includes over 20 of the original Du Bois visualizations from the 1900 Paris Exposition, with re-creation outlines to color.
created with decksh
The motivation behind this project is to make it possible to experience wealth inequality interactively. Analog and unfiltered. To achieve this, I turned data on wealth deciles into ten table...
A handmade data object designed by three members of Starschema’s Data Visualization team; created purely for experimentation and outside work hours. The project was originally submitted to the Dear...
Where in the world would you end up if you dug in a certain direction?
As part of my master’s in interaction design, I explored how data physicalization and tangible interaction could be...