In the HBO megahit Game of Thrones, characters, houses, and allegiances continue to change as new kings and queens gain power, opposing sides do battle, and characters meet one another across the...
Visual narrative in video developed for the World Editors Forum congress in July 2016 in Cartagena. Design and animation were signed by Datadot and the visual narrative was idealized by Ricardo...
Metal Underground imagines the sub-genres of heavy metal and related rock as nodes on a transit map with their relationships to each other traced out by subway, tram, and light rail routes. Route...
The EPFL Data Monolith presents an immersive data perspective on the complex microcosmos that constitutes university life. It is on display at the Data Square exhibition in the ArtLab building at...
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...
This is the animated story of the rise, and the eventual fall of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate. The video was produced by the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, NOS. It came about...
One of the challenges of parenting is that you have to spend a lot of what was once your own time caring for your kids. This time must be taken from an existing activity. After all, there is a...
This map was made by overlaying two publicly-available NASA maps showing light from cities at night. One map was recorded in 1992, the other in 2010. By overlaying and tinting them red and blue,...
The inaugural address contains the first words uttered by a new president. It is an untarnished moment during which the American leader can set the presidential tone, inspire a country, put an...
Anna Karenina has one of the greatest opening lines in all of literature: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This project investigates the connection...
The 2016 count of the homeless population, taken in January, revealed that our county has more than 43,000 people living on the street or in shelters. (Long Beach, Glendale and Pasadena were not...
A TASS project devoted to the development of the first-ever Soviet aircraft carrier equipped with a ski-jump. The text, photos and infographics are stylistically blended into one element, which...
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...
A few weeks ago I set on trying out new WebGL 2.0 features with deck.gl. WebGL 2.0 brings plenty of new goodies to be used for game development, creative coding and data visualization like...
Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics.
There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It...
In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...
A world map projection exposing the shortcomings of the time zone system; what would the world look like if time zone divisions were actually accurate?
This is probably the first projection in...
Never before has the state lost so much money through tax trickery. How did the largest tax scandal in postwar German history come to pass? We have the details.
Life in Clay explores the possibilities of turning data about my life and the lives of my loved ones into functional pottery. My goal is to give our elusive personal data a physical presence by...
Canada's Indian Residential School System was a network of boarding schools, industrial schools, and federal hostels created to remove indigenous children from their homes, their families, and...
Beautiful Trash visualizes a week of trash collection routes in Cincinnati, OH using the open data from the City of Cincinnati.
In addition to the visualization, there is also a YouTube video...
“It worked very well in New York… it brought the crime rate WAY DOWN” – Donald Trump
“It was ineffective” – Hillary Clinton
“The argument is that it is a form of racial profiling” – Lester...
Data Africa is an open data platform designed to provide information on key themes such as: agriculture, climate, poverty and child health for 13 countries in Africa South of the Sahara at the...
"How big is...?" is an ongoing series of infographics for children which I created for the Warum!-magazine. It started out as a series about size, but quickly became focused on trying to make...