This is a project that worked on a digital remix of Stephanie Posavec and Giorga Lupi’s acclaimed “Dear Data” project, drawing inspiration from the analog data graphics to develop novel dynamic and...

This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years. Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...

The work "IMDB Top Movies" presents the highest-rated movies from imdb.com. It examines movies with a rating of 7.5 or higher, which received 50,000+ votes. In total, just over 1000 films are...

This project stems from a Datatón focused on childhood and adolescence in Mexico in 2023. It is aimed at researchers, decision-makers, and individuals with an interest in obtaining preventive...

This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. This network-graph visualisation depicts the mental library of the...

Shrinking glaciers, a changing economy and environmental worries are forcing the Bhutanese to question whether their dependence on hydropower is the realistic way forward. This is a story of a...

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What's on the menu? Exercise or extra fries? Either way, hope you are hungry enough for information on the fast food industry! Order up and curl up to explore the real data of 10K food...

In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists commissioned artist Martyl Langsdorf to create a design for their magazine’s cover, and the Doomsday Clock was born; a boldy simple depiction where...

The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....

Climate change continues to pose a significant challenge, especially in India which is highly vulnerable to climate extremities. However, active steps can be taken to mitigate the effects of...

Hill Mapper is an interactive online map of hilly streets in San Francisco. My goal was to show both the steepness of hills and the direction of their incline, using a design that would be more...

Commit is a series of visualization and sonification works based on GitHub commit history. By analyzing developers' code commit data on GitHub, the work uses data-driven generation to generate...

The first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China on December 8th, 2019. Here i visualized the first stage of the spread of COVID-19 cases in China, USA, world. Updates were provided daily. Had...

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...

When Didi Chuxing merged with Uber China in a $35 billion mega-merger it further complicated the already interconnected world of ride-hailing, tech, and transportation. Business Insider compiled...

A visualisation of search trends and patterns for health issues via Google searches. The project explains how seasonal factors can affect the interest in certain diseases and tells the story of...

The writer Victor Hugo advised looking for letters to know someone's personality because there were the marks of his heart. Now we do not write so many letters but whasaps. This infographic counts...

This animation of an “infinite map”—a “data dream”—depicts the density of restaurants in central Tokyo, with an imaginative twist: it’s morphed into a traditional Japanese ramen dish. This creative...

This is an "interactive data comic narrative" of the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank on the challenges women face in the quest for economic opportunity around the world.

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

Greg Wyler’s first space Internet startup, O3b Networks, has positioned a ring of satellites in medium-earth orbit around the equator—high enough to cover large portions of the planet, but not...

“ZOOM-CALL-LOOK” Data Visualization Project focuses on the evolution and impact of the make-up usage and dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic. The whole project started by a data collection based...

More frequent and intense extreme heat is one of the major impacts of climate change. To assess how the incidence of extreme heat has changed over time, Carbon Brief examined which regions...

In just two decades of the new century, Russia did come so far. And so did it’s people’s lifestyle and social structure which changed along with rising economic well being. This long read is an...

State of the State is an initiative where Deloitte analyses open data using advanced analytics techniques to gain insights that have a social impact. This year one of the theme’s that was studied...

What makes a great city? Is it political stability? Low crime rates? Access to education or healthcare? We took one metric, looking at how easy it is for people to move within cities. We calculated...

As part of an ongoing project to tell fictional stories through Data Visualisation, I thought I'd see if I could tell the story of the Hobbit through charts and infographics with the war between...

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...

Infographic series around the World Cup and the countries participating. Published by OnLab