Data Beyond Vision was an experiment in data physicalization to create tactile, tangible representations of data in order to defamiliarize and refresh the insights that the best data visualizations...
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...
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...
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...
Data Dance Movement is a response to Asian hate incidents and bystander intervention mainly related to Covid-19. In this design research project, I collected qualitative information through...
Bio: I am an information designer and data sonification artist. I'm passionate about creating short, impactful data stories as well as nuanced, complex data-rich long reads. Throughout the design...
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...
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
Why not combine my love of data with my love of sewing and embroidery? Creating an embroidered viz has been on my list for awhile, so I decided to create a personal project that shows a snapshot of...
The Saros cycle governs the periodicity and recurrence of solar eclipses. When two eclipses are separated by a period of one Saros (period of around 18 years), they share a very similar...
In one of my first forays into hand-drawn data visualisation, I documented my first ever blood donation session in the hope that others would also be motivated to give blood. More details of my...
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...
What is the relationship between art + tech + death + life?
Data Meditations: An Abstract Koi Pond explores these questions. Created by Kristin Henry and produced in collaboration with Reimagine...
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...
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...
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...
In daily life, when people face things, the first action idea from their heart is their willingness to act. In modern society, there are many invisible forces that restrain people's willingness to...
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...
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...
Introducing a clear and concise framework for a developing discipline at the intersection between data science, data visualization, graphic design, coding, journalism, and communication, this book...
The project, From the Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India, investigates and spotlights the seat’s relationship with its sitter, and other people in its periphery. The attempt is to...
Seven Days is an ongoing project where I gather volunteers' unique stories as data-sets and explore new ways of visualizing them through drawing. I work with participants to examine how art might...
This chart shows the nutritional ingredients in McDonald's food in a fun way. Each portrait represents one item on the McDonald's menu. According to Shape.com, the classic hamburger is the...
‘Play Bikes!: A Sonic Alleycat’ is a multi-sensory data experience built as a love letter to bikes, to maps, and to data. Personal bike ride data collected from a fitness app is transformed into...
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...
The pandemic has affected so many aspects of our lives, amplifying disparities and challenges that already existed. For far too many households simply having access to enough food to eat is a daily...
Debris is an embroidered data visualisation of the plastic waste that washed up along beaches in different countries.
Each stitch of kantha embroidery represents one piece of plastic waste that...
Here is my Multi-University Transcript. During my undergraduate period, I studied at 3 different universities, 2 of them as an exchange student, and received 3 different transcripts in total. This...
This is a quantified-self project based on Instagram stories. Since 2018, the year I entered the university, I have used my Instagram as a diary. Especially, I uploaded stories more than posts...