After the Golden State Warriors won their third NBA championship in four years in 2018, I started thinking...Of all the cities to field a professional or college level team in the last 150 years,...

The extent to which guns from states that are better for gun owners are used in crimes in states less friendly to gun owners is a topic of much study. We explore the same question visually using...

Infographic showing the order of succession in the royal family of Saudi Arabia since Ibn Saud, founder of the country in 1932. The complexity of the royal family of Saudi Arabia was a challenge....

The summer of 2019 witnessed a very active market where NBA teams traded in and out many relevant players. The research digs into the flow of players exchanging teams, focusing on the value of...

This visualisation shows the location, characters and sentiment –based on dialogue– of Star Wars over the course of Star Wars: A New Hope.

Missing masterpieces draw headlines, but most stolen art is crushingly quotidian-a family portrait "lost" by a moving company, a landscape snatched with the jewelry during a break-in. The FBI's...

The digital era has opened the door for new forms of communication and has not just allowed more people to communicate, but engendered new modes of communication; a powerful tool, yet unfortunately...

Exploring the professional leagues and teams of the players in the 2018 World Cup.

Beautiful Music features sixes pieces of music which are each remarkable compositions in their own way. Visualising the notes shines a light on the different elements of each piece. Through...

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

A timeline of when the elements were discovered.

COVID Gowns is an interactive online visualization of Canadian COVID-19 cases. A common horizontal timeline or horizontal bar chart is limited by how much data can be included because the data will...

Where does the UK government get its money? How much does it then spend? And on what? Here you can review spending in your abstract metric of choice: billions, percentage of budget, or amount...

Drugs, guns and sex. Also some data in a project that opens up the Czech crime statistics for the first time in history. Comprehensive and appealing look into police statistics. An important voice...

In celebration of 100 years of bird banding, Scientific American (Jen Christiansen) commissioned me to create a visualization for the March 2021 edition. The Bird Banding Laboratory has been...

This is the second part of a three-part series investigating the flow of money from the gambling industry into Australia’s political system. It combined sophisticated data mining techniques with...

A “unicorn” is every venture capitalist’s dream. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of funding a startup that surpasses a $1 billion pre-IPO valuation? While Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the...

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

Which famous painters have works of art in the Musem of Modern Art? How many of each?

This visualization reviews the data discovery process through the example of the 'discovery' of the Americas by early European sea explorers and cartographers. Original maps from David Ramsey...

The Triple J Hottest 100 countdown is the world’s largest music poll. Each year more than 2 million Australians pick their favourite songs and the tracks with the most votes are revealed one-by-one...

An illustrated and animated graphics story on how the movement to recognises a spectrum of genders is changing languages around the world.

By analysing a huge amount of data, this project shows a statistical analysis of more than 2 million chess games and throws light onto the most common openings, winning moves and interesting...

Handcrafted offline visualization of the population density around the world, using a styrofoam ball and over 600 toothpicks .

People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in...

The myth origin and Godzilla on the screen and some other monsters related to the film.

refugeemovements.com provides spacial and temporal interactive visualization of migration data collected by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. It addresses the following questions: How have global...

This data art piece conveys the intricacies of a year’s worth of flights performed by Transavia, a Dutch airline. Each flight is turned into an abstract shape whose appearance is completely...

Since dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has had six presidential elections with a total of 29 candidates, including two women. Examine Boris Yeltsin’s unexpected resignation and steady rise...

Public opinion on 32 big issues over the past eight years