Music is an important part of my life and I imagined what it would be like as a hearing-impaired person to experience a song by what it "looks" like, instead. This is a "map" of the song In the...
A biathlon race combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. If an athlete misses a shot they need to ski a penalty loop (or in some formats extra time gets added to their total time).
This...
After more than 20 years of writing and performing genre-defining music, the post-hardcore band mewithoutYou retired in the summer of 2022. The band was known for playing impressively diverse...
The way that people invest money has a big impact on how the world evolves. So far, making a financial profit has been the key incentive for the majority of investors. But with the increasing...
Every year, Laudes Foundation publishes its annual report containing the institution's objectives, accomplishments regarding the previous years and challenges for the future. In 2021 we were proud...
Music is a fundamental part of me. For years, I've been building a playlist with the most representative songs of my life. This playlist became the dataset for this visualization.
Each star...
In a pandemic, it's critical that the community understands the nature of the threat to make informed decisions. But too often, science communication is impenetrable.
In this piece we combined...
A visual representation of the demographic, economic and political power of each generation in Romania, along with the opportunities and challenges they encountered in their lifetimes regarding...
London Under the Microscope is a short data-driven film, commissioned by the Museum of London, which narrates through visuals and sound the first year of the pandemic.
As the world was reshaped by...
Land animals have developed countless solutions to a single challenge: how best to get from one place to another. Modes of travel vary depending on an animal’s size and environment, with the goal...
The NDA sent us the research data in a large Excel spreadsheet with a dozen tabs for different products. In addition, we received the survey results of the target group — another 15 pages of...
Many of us grew up playing Spades. But very little information exists on how the card game developed and grew to become a fixture in African-American households. This Spades project is an attempt...
Aisin Gioro Nurhachi was the founder of the Qing Dynasty. He had a remarkable military record all his life. With the time latitude as the logic and the space latitude as the clue, we deeply study...
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a business loan program established by the United States federal government in 2020 to help certain businesses, self-employed workers, sole proprietors,...
This is an interactive force diagram which allows visitors to see instances of officer-involved violence in their cities.
It allows exploration on two fronts. First, visitors can group the...
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...
Luxun Art has contributed his great strength in major historical events. Some of the materials we have found have detailed introductions, while others are just a few words. We believe that there...
Making with Data is a physical data-driven papercraft sculpture that serves as the cover of our upcoming book, “Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data Driven World.” The paper waves...
The US is in political crisis. Also economic crisis. And health crisis. And climate crisis. And, you know, our foundational racism crisis. Plus the swelling income inequality! What does it mean to...
An experiment in cognition pitting human choice (with emotion) against machine random choice (without emotion). Explore the irrational aspects of human thinking behind the process and the answers....
Through the years, Taylor Swift has changed her musical style drastically, going from country radio to pop to indie – and now, as she re-records her old albums, she is cycling through the genres...
Four full-page graphics show that no place in the world is safe from the consequences of climate change. Raging Fires devastate huge areas, and even in temperate climate zones, droughts wreck the...
The fear of an “unknown” illness without a definitive cure creates uncertainty, leading to anxiety and increased sharing of misinformation. Thus any senseless forward of a message, meme or video...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
Reuters transformed printed Covid-19 case data into a slick, browser rendered animation of Singapore's explosive worker dormitory clusters. The piece documents and explains how and where clusters...
I teach digital studies at Davidson College, and for the past several years, I've assigned my students prompts that build off of Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi's Dear Data project. By following...
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
Numerous statistics show Bucharest is one of the most polluted cities in the European Union. In addition, it ranks second in terms of the social costs of pollution, including premature death. To...
Using the American Time Use Survey in combination with commonly accepted research for how long it takes to accomplish common dream-oriented tasks such as running a marathon, reading the Bible, and...
Relying on memory, I feel like I mostly wasted my time or I didn’t have enough events where I could say, “Yeah, great year. I really enjoyed it!” That’s mostly because I’m forgetful, but data...