Joyful Data is a tool for making custom data-driven graphics in a live, interactive editor. It narrows the gap for non-programmers to create bespoke visualisations while maintaining design control....
Displaying in an internal class exhibition, a series of data visualisations are displayed to reveal the story of water consumption in households. Soap is chosen to be the media and main theme of...
Loud Numbers is a data sonification podcast, created by Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick. Data sonification is the process of turning data into sound, and we take it a step further by turning those...
"Groovescape" transforms auditory data into a visual experience. The user is given the opportunity to have his individual Spotify playlists displayed as a shimmering tornado. The shape and dynamics...
w̶o̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ is a physical installation where a visualization is projected over a bowl of water. The visualization animates through four years of my photos, with each dot representing a photo...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, my company requires its employees to get a new wristband from the front desk each day when we go into the office. The wristband indicates that the employee has tested...
DashboardBot is an algorithm-driven design tool applied to data visualization. It generates variations of designs for dashboard and different graphs.
Inspiration
DashboardBot is inspired by...
This book project takes an unusual approach to the use of data visualisation: it presents a thematic analysis of written correspondence between a poet and historian about difficult histories and...
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...
This map depicts what the actual geography looks like when my family is all on a zoom call together, i.e. all "in" the family room at the same time. The map layers the ~.3 mile radius road networks...
Dates in a Life Walking Project 2021, was a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walk each day. I've documented my steps in paintings for the years 2016 through 2020 and I decided...
A tool that enables readers to model nearly any seashell they can imagine, all based on the same parametric equation. Nature is full of mathematical principles, and this is one illustration meant...
In December 2020, Digital Shelter — a nonprofit organisation in Somalia — carried out a crowdsourcing survey asking Somali women to share their experiences of online harassment and abuse on social...
The Dates in a Life Waking Project 2020 is a year-long painting project documenting the number of steps I walk each day.
I prefer to walk for exercise, as time permits, outside in addition to...
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...
CONTEXT
In 2020, the pandemic brought the world to a complete standstill. Our reality was limited to the 4 or 5 walls of our house. Our homes became our whole world.
On the other hand, media...
This work follows my father's death in 2019 and reflects on our relationship, especially on the loss of my favourite photograph I had with him. I thought the best way to reconstruct our lost...
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...
'Hitting the Pillow' is an exploration to visualize my sleep data over 45 days. This tangible data visualization helped me understand how the time at which I sleep affected the quality of my...
Struggling with gift ideas for Mother's Day in 2021, I knew that I wanted to give my mom something personalised and handmade. This time, though, I decided to make some illustrated data...
My son was born during the pandemic. We spent a lot of time visiting parks and being outside in nature. In the past year he's gained a huge appreciation for the environment and he loves to gather...
My Plastic Footprint is a physical data visualisation project.
It began in an attempt to understand my own plastic use. For one year, I kept and recorded every piece of plastic I would normally...
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...
“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...
Dates in a Life: Kidney Donation documents time after I was accepted as a kidney donor, and everything connected on my end toward my son receiving a kidney, my donation, and some of my...
On my flight to Lisbon, ready to start a new exciting, but scary experience alone, I sketched this idea I had for a handmade data visualization in my notebook. From that first moment, I kept...
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
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....
This piece uses AI-generated art to visualise text analysis data.
AI art is created from complex neural networks that generate images from word prompts. In simple terms, the AI turns text into...
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...