With Ukraine’s counteroffensive well underway, the battle around Crimea proved a prime example of the novel ways in which Ukraine would probe and attack Russian defenses. This piece focuses on the...
Last April was the 50 years anniversary of the first call done by Martin Cooper using the first mobile phone in history, which was big as a brick.
I wanted to find out more about that first model,...
The Nobel Prizes are awarded to laureates who, "during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind" in accordance with Alfred Nobel's will of 1895. The five original prizes...
The grooming culture in the Arab world goes back centuries.
Harem existed for women to gather away from the sight of men and exchange information, stories, jokes, and experiences. Some rituals...
From the vast lakes of the US to the mangrove forests of Bangladesh, everything is at stake as the world heats up. In this piece for Earth Day 2023, we look at 16 species and landscapes at risk of...
The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...
We are all impacted by the air we breathe. Between 2015 and 2017, air pollution in New York contributed to approximately 2,000 deaths and 4,000 hospital admissions per year. The quality of this...
This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...
We analyse the production and consumption of electricity and energy in this infographic poster where white represents light and black represents darkness, using artificial intelligence to predict...
Hi, I’m Neelam. And I’m Timour. Together, we are excited to present to you this one-of-a-kind information embroidery commission. It combines information design (timour’s expertise) and visual...
I play Wordle every day and built this visualization to satiate my own curiosity. I consistently found myself asking questions like: "how many words have Y as the only vowel?" or "which position...
On April 14th, 2003, the Human Genome Project announced the successful sequencing of approximately 20,000 human genes. Since then, genomics has profoundly impacted public health. Despite the...
A data visualisation which looks like a cake with icing dripping from each tier, exploring how the contestants performed through each episode of the 2019 series of the Great British Bake Off.
My infographic is about spreading awareness that plastic isn't getting recycled like we think it is. And that, most of the plastic collected sits in landfills and a lot of plastic ends up in our...
In May, the World Health Organization asked the Viz for Social Good community to help them visualise what disability looks like across the globe through a digitally accessible lens.
Leveraging...
Unseen, our plasticising planet
Microplastics are much closer to us than we thought.
According to the scientific journal, the global average weekly intake of microplastics per person is almost...
After 50 years of relative quiet, La Palma—one of the youngest
and most volcanically active islands in the Canaries—saw a
dramatic eruption in 2021. The event was one of the most dev-
astating...
Re-count, is a sound archive and speculative educational tool that measures human lifetimes. Containing audio clips of memories lasting varying durations juxtaposed against an illuminated timeline,...
Media is often considered the fourth pillar of democracy and represents the voice of the common populous to shape the country's politics. And as for a country with vast diversity - India - the news...
This case study was part of the Google Data Analytics Certificate Program. The task was to analyze rider behavior of the fictional company, Cyclistic Bike Share, to understand how members and...
Summer 1973 America was embroiled in Vietnam and Watergate, and desperately needed something 'Red, White and Blue’: Big Red and his signature checkered silks provided it. Fun facts on the 50th...
Beautiful Music features sixes pieces of music which are each remarkable compositions in their own way. Visualising the notes shines a light on the different elements of each piece. Through...
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been a topic of fascination and controversy for decades. With the advancements in technology, more and more sightings are being reported and documented...
Brazil is the country with the largest number of murders of trans people. Expressing yourself as a member of the LGBT community in this country and fighting against homophobia is almost the same...
What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...
They are the foundation of life on Earth, providing food, medicine, building materials and clean air but across the world, plant species are disappearing fast.
The world contains around 423,000...
The Binge Blanket is a hand-woven blanket embedded with data regarding my Netflix viewing activity for 2021. The Data is embedded into the strands of each yarn used to weave it. Each thread of the...
Cyberattacks are increasingly threatening industries and sectors in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The consequences of cyberattacks can be severe and lasting, causing disruptions to the supply...
For our 15th anniversary we have analyzed and visualized different aspects of our daily work. The result is a series of posters that use abstract patterns to highlight various topics from the past...