This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...
For the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I marked every siren, helicopter and construction noise I heard on paper. I charted it here, and included other sounds and events within earshot from my...
The visualization work presented here arises from the desire to synthesize and visualize in a single graphic document the multifaceted methodological structure of the Monitoring Program that the...
During the pandemic, we were forced to avoid physical contact with people close to us. In order to maintain social contact, we fall back on a reliable method – making phone calls as a substitute...
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:...
Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).
The aim was to briefly illustrate the history of papermaking in a clear and visually interesting way.
We...
There are two halves to my infographic about women's underwear: information from the U.S. and information from around the world. The U.S. half includes visuals of women's underwear showing the...
Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...
Interactive bracket breaking down every world cup finals since 1986. Explorable information includes goals and scorers, draw, results, squads, and more. This piece was also updated live during the...
If I'm on a road trip, I'm stopping at McDonald's.
I wanted to look at McDonald's restaurants in a way that shows just how far they stretch across the country, while always maintaining those...
Data design created with the blue lagoon ingredients.
A successful cocktail is a matter of proportions. Yes but which ones? Here is the visual recipe of the famous Blue Lagoon. A diamond of color...
Imagine if you could see the way the world is interconnected. News Explorer makes this possible by channeling IBM Watson's Alchemy News API—up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K...
These beautiful cats are threatened by growing human populations, loss of habitat, illegal hunting (of both tigers and their prey species) and expanded trade in tiger parts used as traditional...
This visual and interactive report shows how the combination of several different types of data can be leveraged to provide a more systematic understanding of the efforts made to save lives in the...
ghg worked with Save the Children to communicate the impact and prevalence of child malnutrition around the world, particularly in developing nations. As a leading non-profit organization...
How far do people migrate between childhood and young adulthood? Where do they go? How much does one’s location during childhood determine the labor markets that one is exposed to in young...
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy had just hit the Northeast US when the theories about "Sandy babies" started trickling in. As the story goes, whenever people are stuck in one place for a long time...
The impact of internet use on the environment is a contradictory topic. This impact differs according to the reduction/increase of carbon emissions that end up affecting the environment. For...
"Earth Carillon" is an interactive three-dimensional data visualization that explores the relationship between the human species and our planet's ecosystem over a decade. Our aim was to use modern...
Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...
The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth highlighted a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could actually cause damage. Reuters...
Commissioned by Future Earth Media Lab and Global Carbon Project to produce an infographic for presentation purposes as well as for highlighting the budget report on social media outlets.
The idea...
Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...
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...
This was a semester long project that was created during my studies at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. This project shows the impacts trough deforestation. From the...