Each year, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases the results of a survey of the state of global "happiness." This World Happiness Report ranks 155 countries by...

Mom! For years, there was no other word I wanted to hear more. Three kids later, there may not be another word that I hear more often. When the COVID pandemic hit Maine in March of 2020, my job...

From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows...

Spread artwork for Wired US Infoporn section (August 2015 Issue). The map shows hurricanes in America since 1900, color-coded according to category and power.   Source: NOAA

Infographic poster (part of a set of two) detailing the stats for each of the players on the 2013 NBA All-Star teams. The infographic uses radar charts to highlight each player's strongest areas.

Tornado migrations can be mapped like birds or wildebeests or commuters. Like just about everything else on this amazing planet of ours, they have a seasonal circuit and an ebb and flow.

Back in September 2013, President Xi Jinping first introduced the Silk Road Economic Belt during his visit to Kazakhstan. Just a month later, he gave another speech to the Indonesian parliament and...

Intuitive interactive maps & charts visualising an extensive & authoritative database of international trade in natural resources. Chatham House’s resource trade database reorganizes UN...

Migration has great potential to bring benefits to developing countries. worldwide migrant remittances are three times as large as the official development money: More than 400 billion USD. they...

An animated and narrative exploration of the key issues that have created economic inequality in the United States today.

Exoflags is a system that generates flags for newly discovered planets by using data collected about them. To date, NASA and Caltech’s exoplanet archive contains data on 4,044 confirmed planets...

Papercut wordcloud in 3D made from wood slats, fishing line and coloured paper. It is a combination of informativeness and aesthetics: a visualization that can be used for text research (search for...

This set of visualisations is inspired by the novels of Haruki Murakmi. They visualise the rhythm of the stories. Each square is a simplified *shoji* (Japanese sliding doors) and resembles a...

This visualization is based on the systematic review and meta-analysis "Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States." It...

When China’s Place Museum announced plans for a branch in Hong Kong the SCMP visited Beijing and Taipei to study the Forbidden City’s architecture, history and how the art collection was split...

Road killings in Taiwan are becoming more and more severe, with gray in the background to indicate "roads", and red gradients for species extinction to show the spread of blood, like only...

President Donald Trump announced July 27th that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces. The decision reversed a policy...

The Geometry of Urban Life is a parameterised mapping project which aims to break down the cities and towns we live in, into simple polygons and lines. It maps our streets, our buildings, and the...

We make films to capture moments in time, preserve memories and tell stories – yet nothing lasts forever. This set of infographics for ACMI uses publicly available collection metadata to explore...

It has been 30 years since the The Guerrilla Girls' created the infamous poster, Do Women have to be Naked to get into The Met. With this in mind, I began to question if The Metropolitan Museum of...

‘Waste Matters’ – a data driven actionable handbook that addresses one of the biggest challenges inhibiting better management of construction waste i.e. the lack of reliable data on waste...

Are the temperatures over the last few weeks normal? That’s the question the CBC News Climate Dashboard helps users answer by comparing the current forecast with historical data for around 500...

The AAPI Nonprofit Database aims to connect the community to AAPI nonprofit organizations across the country through one comprehensive, up-to-date, and interactive tool. With support from the...

A poster-sized color analysis of the 2,466 story panels in the groundbreaking 12-part graphic novel Watchmen. Built with Python and Tableau, the viz is eighty-odd variable-width bar charts, colored...

As part of the Real World Fake Data #RWFD community project, this dashboard seeks to visualize the cross-functional mobility of a hypothetical company with less than 100 employees, i.e. their...

This project was an attempt to prototype a new way to summarize multiple soccer/football matches and goals into a single data visualization. A lot of existing visualizations focus on the final...

In the visualization "The Tree of Life", the evolution of life on planet Earth is depicted. A distinctive feature of this visualization is that all images of living beings and plants were generated...

An animated data-driven documentary about climate change and public trust in science, Degrees of Uncertainty takes an inquisitive look at the complex relationship between certainty and scientific...

Centuries ago cities designated 12pm as the moment the Sun reached its highest point overhead. These days that would be too inconvenient, and thus we have time zones. However, depending on...

Unlike migrations within the same region, motivated mainly by access to housing, in interprovincial movements the search for better job opportunities plays a very important role. An analysis...