This project is part of a permanent exhibition at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella) and was created in collaboration with some local organizations.
The theme is water: from the laws that regulate...
#AChartADay, launched on our Instagram account in september, 2016, is a side-project born as a graphic experiment with data visualization. A daily updated feed shows both the classic and the less...
There’s no surefire way to win a Nobel Prize, or is there? Nature crunched the data on every science laureate to work out which characteristics can be reliably linked to medals.
Animations and...
I visualized the movement of the buses running in NYC in the morning on February 12, 2019. The bus records are gathered from the MTA website. Each line shows a movement of a bus between one record...
The world famous Russian salad has a different name and a century long history in Russia, where it was invented by renowned french chef. This feature cherishes the favorite staple of national...
Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data?
The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....
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 article, published on the anniversary of Australia’s first documented cases of COVID-19, uses a national dataset of every confirmed coronavirus case (a dataset built by our team) to tell the...
Debris is an embroidered data visualisation of the plastic waste that washed up along beaches in different countries.
Each stitch of kantha embroidery represents one piece of plastic waste that...
In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...
9/11 came as a gift to NSA, giving them more power and freedom to have mass surveillances illegally. And not just through eavesdropping on our phones, they’ve found a new weapon to invade our...
Just hours apart, two massive earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria in early February, killing more than 54,000 people in one of the worst natural disasters of the...
The U.S. military and Hollywood have been actively working together since the dawn of American cinema.
This project visualizes more than 500 film productions (gathered with a FOIA) that have...
Modum is a series of large format canvases that explore the rhythm of commercial activity. By plotting scraped business location data, a new kind of data landscape is created: a self portrait of a...
On 31 October 2019, Nanjing was selected as a World Capital of Literature, the first city in China to receive this title. The number and variety of literary elements associated with Nanjing are...
Unprecedented amounts of money are sloshing about England's soccer clubs – be it revenue from tickets or merchandising, the astronomical amounts spent on players and their wages, or the millions...
Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale.
We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and...
At the start of my journey the outcome was intended to be a dashboard designed to give fleet managers the tools needed to understand bike usage, manage resources efficiently, and possibly uncover...
What if the bond between two people could be traced as a tactile timeline, making it's data story accessible to others and allowing them to explore it with their own hands?
My friendship with C....
Guide dogs are strictly trained dogs and are a type of working dog. I try to introduce guide dogs to the people through information design so that we know how to treat them when we meet them in our...
The dramatic fact that herring gulls are an indicator for the pollution of the marine ecoystem is made visible. Interactive data sculptures were generated from the measured values of toxic...
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual...
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...
Dive into the rich history of the Commonwealth Games with this striking timeline, showcasing which sports have been contested in each edition since 1930.
This visualisation offers a comprehensive...
Sound as Color is an exploration in converting audible frequencies to electromagnetic waves. This makes them perceptible to the human eye, creating a colour palette which corresponds to the audible...
Taylor Swift shifts her sound with each album, creating new "eras" in her discography. From her twangy country origins in Taylor Swift to the indie-infused narratives of folklore and evermore,...
Imagine turning the screen-time dynamics of the show "The Office" into a visual journey through Dunder Mifflin! This data visualization project dives deep into the shared screen time among...
In collaboration with OECD, we created an interactive data platform to help countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies in response. The toolkit supports the...