Every year, humanity is leaking more and more plastic into the world's oceans.
Plastic does not dissolve. Instead it is ground into smaller and smaller pieces at the micrometer and nanometer...
With a large data-art landscape and accompanying charts I show the data on suicide numbers of 2017 from the Netherlands. Elements like trees, waves and clouds represent the categories of suicide...
I visualized the movement of the buses running in NYC in the morning on February 12, 2019. The bus records are gathered from the MTA website. Each line shows a movement of a bus between one record...
The Ching Ming Festival is not just a traditional Chinese cultural festival. It is the most sensational festival of the year for Chinese Zhuang people.
When the 10 Year Challenge hit social media in January 2019, I challenged myself to do a datafied version. One of the few personal data sources I have that goes back 10 years is my Last.fm logs and...
This infographic comprehensively maps out all the ways of winning in different sports, clustering the world's sports according to what counts as winning (eg, being the fastest, being the most...
Eating a poor quality diet high in junk food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death.
This...
During the civic-military dictatorship of Argentina, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police stations. Military bases expropriated houses and...
Since 1980, there have been 101 mass shootings in the United States in which four or more victims were killed, most recently on August 31, 2019 in Odessa, TX, where 7 people died. As painful as it...
The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...
There are still many people in the world who experience hunger and have gone without food for days. The problem of hunger transcends beyond developing nations as it brings us to another topic of...
OilMap is an independent initiative to monitor the Oil & Gas industry of the world promoting transparency and accountability in decision making and investment.
It's a web...
Water doesn’t respect borders. Globally, 263 lakes and rivers are shared between at least two countries, according to the United Nations. Of the 195 states in the world, 145 have at least one of...
I analyzed the "um's" I used during a talk I gave at the 2018 Tableau conference, noting the average number of um's per minute, their increase over time, and the relationship between the um's and...
After two Boeing 737 MAX planes crashed within six months of each other, the Journal set out to answer the question of what went wrong in a visual explainer created with painstaking accuracy. This...
The poster provides an overview of the pig market in Switzerland in 2018. The structure of the poster follows the production chain (inputs, production&prices, slaughter&processing,...
Webeyez product oversees the front-end performance of your eComm website. It helps your tech team to identify, analyse and evaluate technical issues in comparison to your competitors....
An animated flow map showing numbers of commutes in the Netherlands in 2016. Commutes are shown as trains, and locations which attract them are shown as glowing stars. Inspired by the cf. city...
Think you need fast internet speeds to stream Netflix, Amazon or YouTube smoothly? Think again. The Wall Street Journal’s extensive test data shows that typical U.S. households don’t use most of...
Mawangdui No.1 Han Tomb is an influential cultural heritage in China. It has a lot of elegant unearthed cultural relics which includes a variety of fabrics.This work makes a brief introduction of...
Privacy Label is a ranking system that aims to address privacy concerns, not just online but also offline. It consists of circular stickers in the form of letter grading; from ‘A’ the best through...
Language is an extension of individual identity, as vocabulary is freely chosen on social, cultural, and economic base.
This map presents the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 through its...
A series of maps explain how President Assad’s military – backed by Russian warplanes – have been waging a harsh campaign against an array of rebel factions in Syria’s bloody conflict.
The...
There is a big problem in economics regarding tragedy, as in this field someone's pain is normally reduced to a figure for commensuration, here I would like to address that.
Most people find it...
A new analysis conducted on startups failure data set available on www.failory.com* from 100 startups within a 23 years, shows only 3 out of 100 startups have remained active by the year 2017;...
With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...