The Binge Blanket is a hand-woven blanket embedded with data regarding my Netflix viewing activity for 2021. The Data is embedded into the strands of each yarn used to weave it. Each thread of the...

Dear Judges: When Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential debate received a boost in polling after her exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden in the first democratic debate, we wanted to know...

There is something wrong with the global financial system. While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...

Immagine Sonora is a flexible visual system that maps temporal patterns in Spotify music streaming behaviours. It reveals when, throughout the year, people listen to music using real streaming...

4.7 million Colombians live abroad. 400,000 of those who left have refugee status or are applying for it. They live in 45 countries worldwide. Credits:  Data Visualization Chief: Alejandro...

How long does a citizen have to work in order to afford common medicines? This data analyses the price to income ratio in each country.

Visualizing Shark Numbers is an interactive story that incorporates data visualizations and scientific illustrations with the purpose of highlighting the diversity of sharks and shedding light on...

Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is one of the EU's cornerstones in its strategy for cutting emissions of manmade carbon dioxide (CO2). This visual piece explores how it works...

“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads. The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...

In 2016, around 31 075 Million US$ (SIPRI Trend Indicator Value at constant 1990 prices) worth of arms were traded all around the world. In 2015, this figure was 28 448 Million US$. In 2016, this...

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It last made voice contact less than an hour...

As large amounts of genealogical data made open, people could trace back their family roots. Our data source is the China Biographical Database of Harvard University. We further explored the...

Emoto captured and visu­al­ised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic Games on Twitter. The project consisted of an interactive online visualization, realtime data-journalism...

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...

This data visualization mobile emphasizes that geographical distance and physical presence or absence no longer dictate a relationship's significance, relevance, or depth in today's interconnected...

This study explores the relationship between human communities and natural ecosystems, focusing on what happens when they intersect. We aim to understand how conflicts and losses are seen and...

During the 2020 Lockdown in the UK I would play the game Drawful 2, a pictionary game, with my family. One family member makes very challenging drawings, can you interpret them? And what can we...

Dutch Data Design is run by Mirjam Leunissen, an Amsterdam-based data visualization and infographics specialist with a scientific background.

Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...

The best places in Italy that every foodie has to visit and why, with a unique gastronomic journey.

"The Next Bechdel Test" was a months-long project searching for and testing ways to measure inclusion and representation in the American film industry. With input from professionals in and around...

This visual shows 20 recreations of W.E.B Dubois' data portraits from the 1900, many of which were shown in the “The Exhibit of American Negroes”. It was a part of the Dubois Challenge on twitter...

In 2022, I went with my husband to Billie's Craft Beer Fest in Antwerp. When I got home, I decided to make an analysis of the beers we drank that day and how we scored those beers. You can see the...

This project attempts to visualise the results of an online survey about women's health in a beautiful and functional dashboard. The data were collected by Yonder Data Solutions on behalf of Women...

This visualization illustrates the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision and subsequent state laws, such as the Florida 6-week abortion ban, on abortion access in the United States. It...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

The maps and visuals in Scientific American’s “Sacrifice Zones” illustrate the catastrophic fallout from a concerted nuclear attack on U.S. land-based missile silos, which are deliberately designed...