Each row of this cross stitch represents the average temperature for that year. It starts from 1880 (top row) to 2017 (bottom row). White is the average temperatures of the years 1900 to 2000. The...
Fear & Loathing in Cinema Theatre is based on the idea that genres — as prototypical narratives — are constructed in such a way as to evoke a characteristic viewer's emotions. The project shows...
Our annual Kuijpers family get together is approaching and this year I’ve been working on this idea to visualize my family tree in a more challenging way. And since I can’t memorize all family...
Missing masterpieces draw headlines, but most stolen art is crushingly quotidian-a family portrait "lost" by a moving company, a landscape snatched with the jewelry during a break-in. The FBI's...
We've seen our country's borders countless times, on maps, train schedules, weather forecasts. But how well can we draw them from memory? For the national holiday, we challenged our readers with a...
Every weekend, Shanghai People’s Park will be packed by groups of people, who are mostly middle aged and have children that they deem should get married soon, if not already late, and who're in...
Trends in sea-ice thickness and volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize a ocean-ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and...
When should you pitch your tent in Yosemite? Or when is it better to opt for lodging in Grand Canyon? And when should you visit Yellowstone to avoid the crowds?
This visualization explores...
ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing extremist and anti-Semitic incidents around the nation. ADL experts in its Center on Extremism developed...
A double-page graphical Timeline of over 100 Darknet markets offering drugs. The purpose was to try and show how prolific the darknet market is and how new marketplaces quickly took the place of...
How Hong Kong has changed since handover from music to politics, fashion to infrastructure, these graphics explore the evolution of Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from...
Using the "BioFabric" method of depicting network diagrams, "A Chamber Divided" looks at historical co-voting percentages within the U.S. Senate. Over time bi-partisanship and intra-party variation...
For most of the 12 million people living with disabilities in Iran, basic needs such as healthcare, education and transportation are inaccessible. One of the main reasons why is because Iran has...
America's neighborhoods are highly segregated, and we often assign children to schools based on that underlying geography. But many of America's school districts actually draw school zones to make...
Using the 2012 Agricultural Census data, we sought to answer three related questions about U.S. Farm Size:
1. Do small farms really have greater crop diversity?
2. Do government payments...
During the 2018 World Cup we predicted the results of each game in real-time. The result was a collection of animated charts visualizing the triumph and heartbreak of the entire tournament. Readers...
Mercury Retrograde is something I just got into this year and have found super interesting. Basically, 3 or 4 times a year, the planet Mercury does this weird thing where it looks like it's moving...
Streets and squares are an archive of both language and history. We discovered some fascinating patterns in the distribution of the 450,000 street names in Germany. They tell the story of almost...
Individual event medal data from the previous five Commonwealth Games is presented in radial form and shows how individual countries regularly achieve success at specific sports.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have defied easy categorization since they burst into the public consciousness last year, fueling an intense debate over how they should fit into the average...
A tribute to Anthony Bourdain, this work visualizes all the places that Bourdain visited and shared with the world through his television shows---A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, The Layover, and...
Our team wanted to investigate how data could be used to enhance the experience of sporting events. Using professional cycling tours as an example, we developed a design concept for a sport...
After the Cambridge Analytica leak and the GDPR introduction in the EU, we became much more aware about our "data pouring". How big is the amount of data we give to Tech Companies for free? Is it...
This bilingual atlas provides for the first time a comprehensive, easily accessible and detailed overview of all Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel. All maps were specifically designed for this...
“How Faster Trains Draw China’s Cities Ever Closer” is a visual-dominated piece reviewing the changes of time-distances between China’s cities.
China’s rapid development of high-speed railways...
This project tells a story about the poverty levels and flood damages through physical visualization. This map shows the flooded residents from Tropical Storm Allison in Houston, Texas in 2001. The...
We are immersed in a digital age where our data is collected, mined, and shared by companies trying to target and control our behaviors. To inform people about targeted advertisements, a...