Unseen, our plasticising planet Microplastics are much closer to us than we thought. According to the scientific journal, the global average weekly intake of microplastics per person is almost...

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...

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...

This project is a web-based application that focuses on exploring the spread of music genres in Western Europe clubbing culture. The application is mainly exploratory. Based on all the events...

The Data Driven Experience opens the web page. You dive in and scroll back and forth along the timeline. The space you enter is divided into a left and a right sphere. On the left are the...

For a decade, the Pew Research Center has rigorously tracked restrictions on religion around the world — both those imposed by governments, as well as hostilities committed by individuals and...

While experiencing the beloved "Fast and the Furious" films, one might ask: How fast? How furious? A scrappy team of Bloomberg designers and reporters meticulously analyzed the first seven movies...

Based on film budget, revenue and rating data, Film Money tells the story of the fickle relationship between business interests and public taste. Often demanding huge amounts of effort, manpower...

Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...

When China’s Place Museum announced plans for a branch in Hong Kong the SCMP visited Beijing and Taipei to study the Forbidden City’s architecture, history and how the art collection was split...

For decades, everybody in the music business knew one thing: if you wanted to break a new artist, you had to get their songs played on the radio. But with the advent of streaming services, times...

I have always been fascinated by data visualization as a tool for literary exploration. It not only provides an “overview” of the entire text but also sheds new light on classics, allowing us to...

This infographic is an experimental blend of movie box office data and artistic design. Its purpose is to serve as both an informative visual representation of statistics and a captivating poster....

This is not a graphic experiment to represent Beethoven's work, but a precise research that attempts to narrate the musical and stage performance by the Quartetto Sincronie. So we decided to tell...

This interactive visualization is accessible through a website or at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana the Milanese museum, which conserves Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. The project opens up new...

Traditional colors carry rich cultural genes, and traditional color libraries can connect design creativity with national aesthetic standards. However, the current online color libraries need help...

An analysis of the more than 21,000 words in the Hamilton musical, and a write-up of the relational and thematic insights that were found. Includes an interactive exploratory tool at the end, where...

A web application that visually reconstructs the thoughts and feelings which occurred during a classical musical performance. Keynote and documentation at...

Thangka is the unique fabric-painting art of Tibet, and few modern people know the origins and production processes of Thangka. I used the form of the temple city to explain the production process...

Created for a Cannes Lions panel—where Adam Bly, Spotify's VP Data, interviewed burlesque performer Dita Von Teese—this visualization shows how your music streaming habits offer a window into who...

Data-driven poster about the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar"

What would David Bowie’s music look like through the lens of data visualization? This is what designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick set out to explore in OddityViz – a visual...

Bauhaus was the first college in the world to be founded entirely for the development of modern design education. It was founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius. The establishment of...

A Data Visualization Project presenting Richard's Wagner opera - 'The Ring of the Nibelungen'. The opera is a cycle of four German-language epic music by Richard Wagner. In this project I...

We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places. See where songs dominate across the globe

Orchids are valuable, ornamental plants. In China, the orchid is called the national orchid mainly referring to the spring orchid, lily orchid, cymbidium, jianlan, cold orchid, merlan, spring...

Beer is the most popular drink in Brazil. Its importance has grown more and more in the past few years and there has been a boom of new craft and industrial labels. This growing plurality...

What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.

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...

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...