An experiment in cognition pitting human choice (with emotion) against machine random choice (without emotion). Explore the irrational aspects of human thinking behind the process and the answers....
Making with Data is a physical data-driven papercraft sculpture that serves as the cover of our upcoming book, “Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data Driven World.” The paper waves...
Aisin Gioro Nurhachi was the founder of the Qing Dynasty. He had a remarkable military record all his life. With the time latitude as the logic and the space latitude as the clue, we deeply study...
This piece aims to show in detail the comparison of war forces between China and India, puting the territory and its geography as a context.
It opens with an enumeration of the war capabilities of...
If you were a piece in a game of chess how long would you survive? In this visualisation I put you at the disposal of the greatest chess players in some of their most famous matches but will you...
A data-driven analysis shows how India’s public, COVID-19 patients, and hospitals inundated Twitter with desperate pleas for help.
Pleas for oxygen, hospital beds, ventilators, access to...
Augusta National Golf Club was founded by Bobby Jones, the legendary amateur golf champion, and Clifford Roberts, a New York investment banker in 1932. Bobby Jones helped design the golf course,...
A mere 1% of the world’s habitable land is human built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure. While agriculture takes up half of the world’s...
The US is in political crisis. Also economic crisis. And health crisis. And climate crisis. And, you know, our foundational racism crisis. Plus the swelling income inequality! What does it mean to...
Numerous statistics show Bucharest is one of the most polluted cities in the European Union. In addition, it ranks second in terms of the social costs of pollution, including premature death. To...
The Color of Things is a graphic novel made up entirely of infographics, just like my project SWANH.NET,
This 200 pages graphic novel tells a story in the form of diagrams and infographics. I...
An immersive exhibition focussing on the use data as a creative medium to tell stories about people & place.
Our brief was to design an immersive permanent exhibition space that uses data to...
This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...
In the last years, the way people communicate has radically transformed: thanks to digital technologies, and in particular online platforms, new relational possibilities have opened up, together...
This experimental work I did in memory of the deceased inhabitants of Russia. The bars and curves of the standard graphs faintly reflect the drama of people's deaths. While searching for a visual...
As part of its 150th anniversary, Nature, the world’s leading science journal, collaborated with network scientists led by Albert Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University in Boston. The...
This project is an animated visualization of a series of video conferencing sessions held by design professors at the University of Minnesota. Gathering on a bi-weekly basis for one hour during the...
The explosion of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at 1.23am on 26 April 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The dose of radiation released by this disaster was...
The project is about learning the design process and solving the problem through data. Being curious about online learning, I really wanted to research it. The inspiration was to study about online...
I took the gps positions of vehicles from a small route here in Toronto and graphed them as dots progressing around a circle instead of dots on a map. Then I change the radius of the circle to...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
Carved Currencies is a real time data art exhibition made for Ledger 0p3n, a conference by web3 innovators for the digital asset ecosystem.
The exhibition proposes to discover the height main...
How Humans Are Causing Climate Change
“The primary driver of global warming is the human emission of greenhouse gases,” says Dr Noah Diffenbaugh, Professor of Earth Systems Science at Stanford...
The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. This viz displays a 360° overview of a project's status and key performance indicators...
This project is a visual essay called Game of Words. In it, I analyze and present narrative patterns in Russian state media during the war in Ukraine in a scrollytelling format. These findings...
This project was a follow up on a map I designed as a response to Laura Trump's "Try to impeach this" tweet (https://twitter.com/karim_douieb/status/1231216013313789955). The essay try to explain...
A tool that enables readers to model nearly any seashell they can imagine, all based on the same parametric equation. Nature is full of mathematical principles, and this is one illustration meant...
Studio NAND and Truth & Beauty (Moritz Stefaner) were commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with Cosmonauts & Kings to build the single source of truth on...
‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...
This work shows a stream chart that breaks down the categories of goods and services that are responsible for driving inflation up in Brazil. Each stream represents the percentual variation of...