How High We Go in the Dark is a novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu. Told through interconnected short stories, this book follows a climate-induced global pandemic over thousands of years, exploring themes...
In the Fall of 2021, I decided that I wanted to do a personal data visualization for the year. Perhaps it was a bit late in the year to make that decision, but with the help of my online library...
'In Rainbows' is one of my favourite Radiohead albums. I love every single note of it. I decided to look at this album from a data perspective. I used the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital...
A visual exploration of the trajectory of success for 25 of the most loved (and most unloved) movie franchises.
The 'falling stars' chart shows each movie's audience and box office success,...
I created this piece for the Data Is Plural challenge, which invited us to visualize data about Bob Ross, an artist that painted an oil painting on each episode of his TV show, The Joy of Painting....
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:...
After following the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in ten years, I got curious about the divergence between the public televote and the juryvote. We had watched the results on our way...
The project was timed to coincide with the centenary of the execution of Emperor Nicholas II and his family. It focuses on the remaining members of the Romanov dynasty who emigrated after the...
A nonlinear narrative is a storytelling device that portrays events of a story out of chronological order. Story curves visualize the nonlinear narrative of a movie by showing the order in which...
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...
This project is part of the 2022 #30DayChartChallenge Day21 Timeseries: down/upwards. For this topic, we got curious about how Taiwan’s most iconic street snacks shifted in popularity over the past...
A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...
This visualization shows the shared storylines of the TV show, Modern Family. Data was gathered by analysing the summaries of each episode and identifying the number of times characters appeared...
There are many aspects to the Harry Potter franchise: books, movies, a new play, studio tours and theme parks. But when it comes to gauging fan reaction, there’s probably no better place than...
In this visualization, I use film fandom to understand how the film Parasite (2019) portrays social inequalities through architecture. The motivation behind it was to combine film analysis,...
This visualization was created using open source data containing every word spoken by character and location, in the first 27 seasons of the Simpsons. The size of each circle represents the number...
One of the things that make Berghain amazing is the great artists curation. I find myself going to Berghain's website and looking at the listings just to discover great techno and house music...
Explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe like never before!
Each main character and actor is connected to the movies they appear in, allowing you to see the connections between your favorite Marvel...
This visualisation is to understand the current trends of students' adherence to the cuisine of their ethnicity in comparison to what they had in childhood when their parents cooked for them. It...
In the twenty years since its 1998 release, Joel and Ethan Coen's neo-noir buddy comedy 'The Big Lebowski' has emerged as a cult sensation. A yearly festival is devoted to the film and its...
History always repeats itself, and the fashion industry is certainly no exception to this rule. Over the years, trends have been recycled decades down the line.
What’s interesting, though, is...
I published this data visualization of mine on April 21, 2021 and in short, I’m displaying the racial diversity for each of the four main acting categories winners.
Design form: designed in the form of information chart, the whole work is 70cm wide and 567cm high, in the form of vertical scroll.
Design content: to seven different era style "permanent" word...
A visual compendium of the Marvel universe showing each character and their history with the franchise.
Since the series kicked off in 2008, the Marvel films have become a part of culture...
Researchers studied how many times various North American Songbirds fed at the same feeder at the same time. I visualized this data by connecting the birds spotted feeding at the same time. The...
“Decoding Everything Everywhere All at Once” was my thesis project at Parsons. The inspiration came from personal experience of really loving the movie but still feeling confused by the end. When I...
So, I decided to map some pub names.
Because, like chicken shops, streets and pizza chains, if we zoom out a bit, pub names tell us a bit about the geography, culture and history of the people...