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...
When a story is well-written, you can become so immersed while reading that it becomes your world. All your surroundings disappear and all that remains are the words on the page guiding you through...
With "Made To Measure”, the filmmaker group Laokoon illustrates how online companies, advertisers, and other data traders use the information they collect – by telling an interactive story based on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We looked through decades of rap lyrics and categorized every mention of Donald Trump and other presidential candidates, and presented the results with graphics, sound and an interactive database.
The intention of this visualization was to give music a new dimension and perspective by making it pleasing to the eye as much as it is to the ear.
The Infernal Dance is a part of the Firebird...
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...
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...
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...
This story is about the most recent restoration of Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece. We received high resolution images of this world’s...
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...
In this article, we investigate about the castles that can be found in Spain, from the information collected by the spanish Nonprofit Association "Amigos de los Castillos" (there is no government...
The aim was to visualise the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible... no pressure!
An epiphany came to visualise God speaking either side of that silence. Data was...
From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. Tens of thousands of works that touch on countless...
This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. This network-graph visualisation depicts the mental library of the...
Fear & Loathing in Cinema Theatre is based on the idea that genres — as prototypical narratives — are constructed in such a way as to evoke a characteristic viewer's emotions. The project shows...
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...
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...
Palette of Art is a poster series investigating the frequency of color occurrence in famous masterpieces throughout history. The series interprets color through an adaptive color wheel,...
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...
Pagodas were introduced to China with Buddhism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. They have changed significantly in form, structure, material, layout, and function over a long...
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...
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...
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...
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...