The Arctic seascape plays an important role in North American trade and defense; however, in recent years, the Arctic has undergone radical changes, altering current shipping routes and opening up...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American TV series originally aired between 1997 and 2003. Too often, the show is not judged seriously, as many Young Adult fiction works. Yet, it is highly enjoyable...

More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...

Donald Trump has broken the mould of the American presidency in almost every major category. He is the country’s oldest commander-in-chief, its richest and the only one in history without any...

Description: Our new digital age unfolds unseen forms of data tracking. Nowadays these are mainly used for the sake of advertising. What would it mean to collect this data on a personal level? I...

Harlequins are a rugby team based in West London, known and loved in the sport for their distinctive kit. This visualisation uses the quadrant style of their home shirt to display point for and...

The embattled Old City of Jerusalem has grown over the centuries into an architectural patchwork reflecting the styles, beliefs, and priorities of conquerors past. The rulers who rebuilt or...

Being passionate about the films of Quentin Tarantino, I decided to do a dataviz project exploring his non-linear scripts and interconnected characters. I started watching all the movies and...

‘Inspiring a Movement: The Warming Stripes’ is a visualisation depicting and evaluation how Ed Hawkin’s famous ‘Warming Stripes’ graphic has grown over the last 4 years, becoming a global symbol of...

This is a blog post about a recent academic paper of me and a co-author. The blog text is written by both of us while the visualization is solely my work. The article is about whether populists in...

This infographic reveals the 20 most congested cities in the world, measured by the increase in travel times compared to the free flow of traffic

Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...

A data visualization of how the world can be rearranged to national music preferences identified through Spotify. Spotify currently has 232 million active users a month and hosts over 50 million...

Sometimes we have to challenge readers' sensibility so we can build a better world. This cut-out infographic includes a mid-upper-arm circumference (or MUAC) bracelet, which is used to help assess...

This visual story explores the Romantic Comedy's rise and fall in popularity at theaters in the U.S. and how the genre could make a comeback.

China’s rapid economic growth has been the envy of the world for two decades

I was curious to understand the invisible threads between people, what the work and social connections look like at Barabasi Lab. With the help of a custom-made script, all active colleagues filled...

An outbreak of green algae, or hutai in Chinese, has invaded the seawaters off eastern Shandong. It looks harmless and lots of fun, as beachgoers are pictured frolicking in the green mass. But...

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...

The most famous train ever, a legend, an epic journey surrounded by a shade of mistery, glamour and the charm of the past golden times. How well do you know the Orient Express, its lines and the...

I wanted to create a visual that highlighted two things as simply as possible: 1) the distribution of the world's population and 2) the locations with the highest population densities. That's how...

A data visualization using a dataset from the Open Data BCN portal focused on complaints registered by the Barcelona City Council for five years from 2016 to 2020. An analysis into the...

On May 2, 2018, Enrique Ochoa Reza left the presidency of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, one of the ones with the poorest trajectory of the last 20 presidents of the PRI. This visualization...

Visualizing the 2016 metric tons of coffee produced and the coffee belt between the tropics of cancer and capricorn.

An interactive web app presenting key funding trends and a dedicated dashboard for each funder.

From selfie to wavy, everyday people turn to Google Search to learn definitions, ask questions, and find information. When we add up each of these moments and searches, we see interesting changes...

Transit isochrone maps are incredibly pretty and tell us lots of things about the cities we live in. They show the area that is reachable within X minutes from an origin. I decided to animate...

Visual Thinking Nucleus showing dots for each tweet. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2]

A data-driven investigation into the politicization and perception of crime in New York City. Although violent incidents are up since the pandemic began, crime is at decades-lows. Media coverage...