Are we what we read? Women's relationship to books is as nuanced as the reasons they have for reading fiction in the first place.
Feeding the Print Tooth is a visual exploration of weekly New...
Scientific studies have shown that bipolar mood switches can sync with the phases of the lunar cycle under certain circumstances. Since I live with bipolar, I tracked my mood for 72 days and...
This book project takes an unusual approach to the use of data visualisation: it presents a thematic analysis of written correspondence between a poet and historian about difficult histories and...
Mom! For years, there was no other word I wanted to hear more. Three kids later, there may not be another word that I hear more often.
When the COVID pandemic hit Maine in March of 2020, my job...
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Our data visualisation for Nature’s feature shows how such ‘planetary health’ diet should look like according to researchers and how it compares...
"Mission Weather" and "Mission Climate" are two interactive web applications, which were designed and implemented for two large touch screens, as part of the exhibition "Mission Earth" of the...
Addiction recovery has traditionally been quantified by counting days of sobriety. This project is focused on showcasing a new measure being introduced to the addiction recovery community that...
Ein Ratgeber-Haushaltsbuch zum Thema Wäschepflege. Es geht darum, zu besserer Wäschepflege zu motivieren, Genderrollen in der Waschküche aufzulösen, auf die Wertschätzung von Kleidung aufmerksam zu...
I was challenged by friends to show how bars are distributed in Brazil. I received data on registered companies that have the word "bar" in their name and made a poster out of that.
The main...
Every year Russian deputies publish their income declarations. In addition to earnings, MPs and their family members should declare real estate owned or rented (apartments, country houses, garages,...
How can we address common misconceptions about obesity related to fitness and encourage higher exercise rates amongst leisurely populations?
One Exercise Fits All is an informative infographic for...
This project is part of my M.Sc. graduation thesis in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. The research is developed around the contemporary debate on LGBT parenting: a current, delicate...
During the time when I was learning about Minard's famous visualisation of Napoleon's battle gains and losses, I was also increasingly interested in battles for civil rights in the United States....
This infographic takes the reader through the complex and taboo history of the vibrator in a bright and accessible way. I began with an intense research phase charting just how the vibrator's...
During the lockdown, it became clear that our world has changed forever. And I became interested in capturing it the way it was before the pandemic. I created a series of five Suprematist maps...
This piece explores nearly 9000 natural disasters that have occurred globally over the last 60 years. Which types of disasters occur most often and which ones take the most lives? Which parts of...
Places and street names define how a person interacts with a city. Often they are named after important personalities, gods, and goddesses. The project aims to study and visualize the distribution...
Between 2011 and 2021, Zambia's national expenditure increased by a staggering 482%. This DataViz explores this growth by sector.
This viz was featured in the Tableau Conference Viz Gallery in...
When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore.
As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...
The Climate Orb project is an awareness campaign that aims to use data aesthetics to spread awareness about Climate Change and its causes and consequences.
This project explores data aesthetics as...
This piece is a timeline depicting the history of the Rugby World Cup (rugby union) and includes a visual representation of the scores of all matches at each tournament. The majority of matches are...
The infographic describes the British Library's daily newspaper archive in general and the development of British daily newspapers in particular.
The material consists of:
- A print,...
Using the American Time Use Survey in combination with commonly accepted research for how long it takes to accomplish common dream-oriented tasks such as running a marathon, reading the Bible, and...
StockX is a popular online marketplace for buying and selling sneakers and clothing. As someone interested in both sneakers and data, I felt that it would be interesting to see what insights I...
County-level data can be very rich, and detailed enough to extract meaningful geographic disparities and reveal distributions that may be problematic and require attention.
A county-level analysis...
2020 News
Was All So Bad, But Maybe
Less Bad as Haikus?
Prompting and visualizing 2,700 gloomy haikus about news events from 2020 (from ~2,000 authors on Mechanical Turk), forever...
“Quaran.tiles” is the physical representation of a collection of expressive geotags created on Instagram in 2020 as a response to quarantines during the first wave of infections of COVID-19. Due to...
Combining analysis of historical rainfall data with deeply reported explanatory graphics, this project provides a visual overview of shifting rainfall patterns, their causes and their consequences...