The lantern is also called the sky lantern, also known as the wishing lantern. It is an ancient Chinese handicraft and used for military purposes in ancient times. Modern people put the lantern as...
Did you know that the card game itself is a symbol of love? Mostly we just know the basic symbols of love. But what do we know about the stories behind them?
The differences between stories and...
The visualization shows the stamps issued in Italy from 1945 to 2017. Artwork for Visual Data, the column on 'La Lettura', the cultural supplement of 'Corriere Della Sera'.
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 data visualization was inspired by Rebecca Yarros' 2023 fantasy-romance bestseller "Fourth Wing". This project bridges data science and literary engagement by allowing readers to explore the...
Charts (graphs, diagrams and tables) are symbolic representations that communicate complex information using the basic elements of design such as shape and color. The use of charts has become...
The IMDb ratings of the Original, Prequel, & Sequel Star Wars films (those released as of 30th May 2017). Hovering over the x-wings provides more information about each film, hovering over the...
Ten Bamboo House Edition
by Nanjing University of the Arts
Shizhuzhai watermark woodcut is the most outstanding representative of color prints in the history of Chinese millennium printmaking....
Separately, we looked at marrying age, divorce rates, and those who never married. Now let’s look at marital status all together, with the addition of the widowed status.
As you switch between...
Huizhou ink is a treasure of Chinese ink making skills and one of the “scholar's four jewels”,It has distinctive features, unique skills, high quality and rich scientific and technological...
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...
Museums are bastions of culture, they hold artifacts from all over the world. These artifacts hold different meanings to different people and some want their artifacts repatriated. Repatriation is...
Visualisation about two books written by Jules Verne.
The Journey to the centre of the Earth and the Around the World in 80 days.
The colour divides the visualisation in 2 parts, where the darker...
How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify.
This project looks at the decline...
"Dataviz in Perspective: teaching and professional practice of data visualization in Brazilian Design" is the first-ever original publication entirely dedicated to data visualization, from the...
Subjects selected from the founding of one hundred years, China's textile industry system from scratch, the past prosperity, aims to comb through the way of information visualization development...
A look at 20 of the most popular films and their similar five act story structure.
Using the TMDb movie database and The Script Lab's Five Plot Point Breakdown blog, I was able to look at the...
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...
This interactive visualization allows users to select their favorite adult beverage then helps them determine what type of that beverage is best paired with a variety of foods.
“Poltava, Сarl!” is a historical longread, filled with various maps, charts and pictures, dedicated to the 310th anniversary of the battle of Poltava. Both Russian and Swedish historians agrees on...
Technology meets audio. Analysis of consumption trends in Spain of the main forms of expression: podcasts, audiobooks, smart speakers and voice assistants. Preference of use by area, reasons for...
Do you know K-pop? Did you hear about BTS? You should have heard about them, or you may be regarded as out of date.
Korean pop culture, known as K-pop, is a genre of popular music originating in...
INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979) is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2015) and hosted by...
Escher’s Gallery is a one-page interactive visualization exploring the 455 works by M.C. Escher through the years.
After learning that Escher is famous for Optical art and tessellation, I’m...
Hudson Yards in NYC has arrived to many mixed reviews, but how it's new art venue The Shed performs remains to be seen. Is it filling a void, or entering a glut? Here's a snapshot of it in context...