As COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S. in March 2020, Trump administration officials estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans might die. A worst-case scenario, they said, meant between 1.6 million...
Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.
A collaboration lead by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, with GenSpace, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, the BK BioReactor is an investigation into the unseen...
In Nice to Meet You, we visualize measures of ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity across 250 countries and territories in the world. We intuitively understand that what...
By the end of 2022, the number of refugees globally stood at 35.3 million, an increase of more than eight million from the year before, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for...
Ever wonder if we can quantify a gender bias in society?
Using machine learning, we can generate word associations present in a given media source. By looking at those associations we can tell...
Bicycle makers continue to produce lighter machines with better grip and more powerful brakes. Riders have been flirting with unheard of speeds during descents, touching 70 miles an hour. And...
HIV is a global problem, but it is getting rampant in Russia. One of the key reasons is the lack of awareness and the taboo nature of the topic.
According to the UN, Russia has one of the...
Silicon-based civilization is already integrated into people's lives. Carbon-based civilization is the culture formed by organisms, while silicon-based civilization is driven mainly by data, which...
Coastal cities need billions of dollars to build defenses against sea level rise. Tensions are growing over where that funding will come from: taxpayers or private companies with waterfront...
Climate change is what the world’s population perceives as the top global threat, followed by global economic instability and Isis, according to research conducted by the Pew Research Center
The Economist's defense correspondent in 2013 revealed to the world how close Iran was to building a nuclear bomb. But it took a 3-page article to explain. So our graphics editor intricately...
One of the biggest challenges in comparing the best modern-day players to those of previous eras is the changes in the the way the game is played. Season length, roster size, and schedule strength...
Nanjing, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, has the titles of "Ancient Capital of Six Dynasties" and "Metropolis of Ten Dynasties". It has a special status and value in Chinese...
This is a personal map of New York City showing all of our movements during one year. We tracked our location with OpenPaths which is represented in blue and red. The yellow dots are locations...
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...
My son was born during the pandemic. We spent a lot of time visiting parks and being outside in nature. In the past year he's gained a huge appreciation for the environment and he loves to gather...
'Perfect Laundry Day' was created as part of my master's graduate thesis project at Parsons School of Design (class of 2023) This project aims to deliver a sustainable and attainable solution that...
The language and cultural heritage has a particularly important protection value. The popularization of Putonghua is important, but we cannot abandon dialects and national art because of this. My...
One of the most memorable moments during my first date with my partner was when we gushed over our love of movies. I told him that I used an app called Letterboxd to track the movies that I...
This scroller piece invites users not just to see but also to feel the severity of income inequality in the US. With 1 pixel representing 1 dollar, the amount of scrolling required to earn what the...
The artwork shows the satellites launched from 2003 to 2015. It represents the type of institutions that were focused on projects and the nation that financed them. On the left it is shown the...
Analysis of over 100 years of Indy 500 races, with a focus on the changing speeds, going from an average of only 81mph in 1911 to a fastest of 190mph in 2021. Enjoy the analysis being told through...
The intersection of cancer genomics with novel immunotherapies is revolutionizing patient care. The number of mutations found in tumors has been associated with overall survival of lung cancer...