The work discussed is a map of Malleshwaram, more than a hundred years old dwelling in the city of Bangalore India with a spirit of its own. Malleshwaram mesmerizes, the heart of it—a potpourri of1...

Displaying a cities density (people per square kilometre) by creating city-like typographic expressions of that density. The more crammed and taller the buildings within the boundaries of the type,...

On July 21, 2016, Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination at the RNC. Since the beginning of the primary season, Trump has been accused by pundits of...

Cities on similar latitudes: Something I wanted to do for a long time. Vancouver is south from Berlin? Crazy.

This is the average day of 1,000 Americans. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I modeled a day as a time-varying Markov chain and simulated their time to the minute. The animated...

The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?

This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

Does every female character in Disney / Pixar movies have basically the same face?

How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...

The visualization effectively replaces the pdf print annual report of this society, which consisted of text and tables only and had little appeal, even though it contains important information on...

Information design is to use reasonable design methods to analyze and organize the data and information, and make the data, passing on the information in a reasonable way, let the complex noise to...

At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...

People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in...

Subject: people do not worry is the trend of the donation, donation is not too clear, resulting in concerns, in order to break the people's concerns, I design the information visualization of...

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There’s heavy competition in the fintech space and no shortage of moving parts. However, this infographic helps to put most things in perspective.

War and Peace — a vast novel with many characters and events, historical facts and locations. We visualized relations between the characters and how these evolve, movements of the characters on the...

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, regions will face drastic changes and will be increasingly affected by climate hazards.

We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...

A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...

Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...

The nature of the data being represented concerns migration patterns to Johannesburg from across all South African provinces as well as living patterns within the physical space of Johannesburg...

Kobe Bryant's 30,699th and final field goal came from 19 feet with 31 seconds left against the Utah Jazz. During his 20 years with the Lakers, he fired up more than 30,000 shots, including the...

The refugee crisis was all over the news in the last year. This short video explores what impels people to leave their homes, which role the situation in Syria plays for those events and how that...

Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

Information visualization has traditionally limited itself to 2D representations, primarily due to the prevalence of 2D displays. While techniques that utilize immersive environments, such as...

A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age glaciation.

The project aims to raise awareness about the growing number of war victims in a continent too often forgotten. Data on armed conflicts in Africa since 1900 have been collected and made available...

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