Driving to work recently I heard Baz Luhrmann's infamous 'Everybody's free to wear sunscreen'. Great song, big hit in the UK, but it got me thinking - did anybody listen to him?
What does Google know about me? What data does my bank save about me?
In my final Graphic Design BA thesis I want to show how much and what data is collected from different corporations, like the...
The US holds only 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners. Was it the war on drugs? Mandatory minimums? How we got here – the global leader in incarceration – is one of the...
The American Time Use Survey is an ongoing program from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that asks thousands of people, as you might guess, what they did during the last 24 hours.
Using the data...
Mission No. 91 is an attempt to portray the scale of the effort and sacrifice of the men who flew long, dangerous bomber missions in World War II. The 91st mission of the VIII Bomber Command was...
This project aimed to visualise the key elements of the global sport of Formula 1. It focuses on the drivers and cars in F1's 67 year history with attention also given to the ever-changing engines,...
Sound as Color is an exploration in converting audible frequencies to electromagnetic waves. This makes them perceptible to the human eye, creating a colour palette which corresponds to the audible...
The National Center for Education Statistics maintains a variety of metrics related to various levels of schooling. Poking around, I wondered what the kids these days are learning and how it might...
Brazil is formed by 26 states, divided into 5 570 municipalities.
The first edition of the Data Book was about the state of Minas Gerais, with 853 municipalities. The data book contains...
Language has two aspects - sound and meaning, and yet we don't tend to care about sound as much as we care about its meaning when using language. This project attempts to draw attention to sound...
The data is driven from CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of new born babies each year who did not pass a screening test for hearing ability.
The color scheme is pastel pink and...
“A Matter of Time” takes a comprehensive look at the nature of long prison terms in the U.S. – how time served in state prisons has grown in recent years, who is serving the longest prison terms,...
Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz tracks the American dialect in these...
The impact of changing demographics and social change.
This was the overall theme of ING Bank online magazine The View, issue 8.
The request was for an animated infographic that explores the...
President Donald Trump finally took his first foreign trip—after waiting longer than any president since Lyndon Johnson—raising an intriguing question about his past: Where did he travel when he...
Each year, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases the results of a survey of the state of global "happiness." This World Happiness Report ranks 155 countries by...
This project is an exploration of how much swimming has improved since the beginning of the 20th Century. It includes three different visualizations: the first one focuses in the average speeds of...
The River of Authors is an enormous mural celebrating 250 of literary history at the offices of book publisher Hachette UK. Using data from the British Library, it features the names of 5,000...
From food storage to furniture—we use plastic for everything. In 2008 alone 245 million tons of plastic were produced. These plastics often find there way into our waterways. Every year 6.4 million...
This work is the first visual atlas that offers a wide overview about the phenomena included under the notion of water grabbing. Stealing, limiting, disrupting or interfering local communities...
Distributing Information can save a life.
It is important to provide updated preemptive Information in different Forms in certain Essential Products.
Many regions face major challenges nowadays...
Inspired by rebuses, a narrative method dating from as early as the 15th century that uses pictures to represent words, Bloomberg journalists tackled the Space X story in a compelling new way....