Visualizing polarization in the US Supreme Court from the 1946-2015 terms. Justices are color coded by the party of the appointing President and sorted in order of decreasing perceived conservative...
In a “Tempestry,” each color represents a temperature, and each line, the daily high temperature in a specific location. Put together three-hundred-and sixty-five of these lines, and you get a...
The Washington Post weighted the style of facial hair, or lack thereof, of all active ballplayers on a scale of 0 to 8 — zero being clean shaven, eight being the grizzliest — then calculated...
Between 1973 and 2013, $367 billion of development aid has been distributed worldwide. Who has provided aid, and who has received it? This deceptively simple graphic shows the flows of global...
A year into the economic war between the U.S. and China, all signs are that the conflict will continue to get worse, with both sides raising tariffs and signalling an unwillingness to...
This project translates a bird's migration journey from South Arabian Peninsula to North Asia into a series of map images in traditional East Asian landscape painting style with haiku poems...
We made a small analysis of how often and in what part of a word each letter of the Russian alphabet appears in the language as a whole. This graph shows the relative distribution of each letter,...
Coming almost 450 years after the world's first Atlas, this Atlas for the End of the World audits the status of land use and urbanization in the most critically endangered bioregions on Earth. It...
Russian modern artists' network visualization, made for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, summer 2015. Size 15x5 meters. Data source: Garage Museum. Tools: Gephi, Adobe Illustrator
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes hourly Air Quality readings at hundreds of sites nationwide, and produces an Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures how healthy the air is at...
Freshwater has been described as the oil of the 21st century. In the wake of extreme water stress events across the globe in places like Cape Town, Mexico City, and Australia, I wanted to explore...
This year was the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair. What was it like to experience those three days in 1969? This project examines the data from the event to try to get some...
This map uses NASA data to visualize the estimated maximum near surface air temperature on August 28, 2100 at over a million points on the earth's surface. Users can compare the situation with...
Around 1.9 million people work in creative occupations across the UK, which is approximately 6% of total employment. But where do these creatives live? And do some areas of the UK have a higher...
With roots stretching back more than 100 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved to be one of the world's most intractable. Through animated maps, we explain how the political boundaries...
For this collaboration with the International Detention Coalition, we have been asked, following the IDC brand guidelines, to design a few visualisations adequate for both print and digital...
Government, statistics & data visualisation? What’s going on here then?
For years the UK Office for National Statistics releases lacked imagination; yet there was so much potential to inform...
The project presents a generative approach to the book cover creation process. As a basis for generation, I chose a Peter de Jong attractor. Such text features as average word length, average...
You may think buying that particular color shirt or houseware item was your decision, but color analysts and forecasters actually anticipated the color you may choose a few years in advance. Here’s...
A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...
The Joy of Painting was a television show created and hosted by painter Bob Ross which taught techniques for creating landscape oil paintings. The show ran from 1983 1994 and, during that time, 403...
US and allied naval deployment in the Eastern Mediterranean off Syria's coastline. You can navigate all over the graphic in two zoom level. A general level, with information about US and allied,...
The way that people invest money has a big impact on how the world evolves. So far, making a financial profit has been the key incentive for the majority of investors. But with the increasing...
NB: This project is only viewable on a mobile device in a portrait orientation.
High quality education comes at a price in China, a high price indeed. In 2008, Beijing reformed its middle school...
In Copenhagen - one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world - 50% of all citizens commute by bike daily. This poster illustrates the bicycle counts in 2014 on four different streets in...
The typical red/blue U.S. election map is in some ways deceiving. Since there is no adjustment made for population density, the balance of colors often tells you very little about which candidate...
This map shows the many places mentioned in interviews with Anna Patipa and Jacob Brodman, two Holocaust survivors. You can follow the sequence of places in their accounts by noting the number of...