We looked at the Best Picture winners from the past 90 years and analysed the number of nominations in other Oscar categories that they received in that year (nominations, not necessary...
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...
What and how did Fontane read?
We present a visualization of Theodor Fontane’s author library. The inventory of ~64000 pages in 155 books contains works from the personal library of Fontane, a...
This visualization measures how many films members of the three different packs (The Rat Pack, The Brat Pack, and The Frat Pack) appeared in together, as well as the IMDB ratings for those films
This visualization uses a series of relatively simple but well-designed charts to tell an intriguing story about diversity. The first sections aim at quantifying the lack of diversity in the first...
IN COLLABORATION WITH CJR, a team of Columbia Journalism School students transformed our Pulitzer demographics database into an interactive graphic. This project, part of a graduate course on media...
I turn music lyrics into sentiment data using the Google Natural Language API. I visualise this data in a scatter plot. After that, I remove all the axes and put the dots of the scatter plot on a...
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...
Head on a spike? Check. Shot on the privy? Check. Baked into a pie? Check. Over the past 6 seasons of Game of Thrones, more than 100 characters have been killed off the show — but only one has...
According to WikiSein, Jerry had 50 love interests, both past and present, over the course of 180 episodes. The following is a timeline showing his love interests. Elaine, who was a past girlfriend...
This visualization uses data from the Spotify API, to describe 26 music genres across 8 musical dimensions:
Energy, Instrumentalness, Loudness, Duration, Tempo, Valence, Danceability, and...
The friendship of an American Girl Doll is a rite of passage for many young women.
This visualization combines American Girl dolls (represented by Blue bars) with girls born in the US with the...
This data visualization was inspired by Rebecca Yarros' 2023 fantasy-romance bestseller "Fourth Wing". This project bridges data science and literary engagement by allowing readers to explore the...
The infographic describes the British Library's daily newspaper archive in general and the development of British daily newspapers in particular.
The material consists of:
- A print,...
Released by Telos Publications late last year, 'Infogothic: An Unauthorised Graphic Guide to Hammer Horror' is my first book, analysing the horror films from Britain's Hammer Films. Rather than...
In this project, I mapped out the coverage areas of FM radio stations (and TV stations). The maps are styled to evoke the night sky--which may appear silent, but actually flares with noise if you...
This flow visualisation allows you to follow the castaways from Australian Survivor, Season 2 through their alliances and eliminations of until there is only one 'sole survivor'. The twists and...
"Mapping Dada" is a piece that uses the Wikipedia link structure, combined with a modified version of Google's 'PageRank' equation, to track the movement of Dada through history.
There are many reasons why I love Stranger Things: the characters, the script, the style just like the ‘80s… all these elements make it undoubtedly magical. Nonetheless, I believe it’s the music...
This artwork is a visual analysis of the London Stage Database. It explores the top 5 performances in London measured in number of shows from 1700 to 1800, where these performances took place most...
Papercut wordcloud in 3D made from wood slats, fishing line and coloured paper. It is a combination of informativeness and aesthetics: a visualization that can be used for text research (search for...
This infographic is meant to visually portray the cuisines of 5 very different countries from around the world. Illustrations of each country's signature foods are housed on dinner plates, with...
The streamgraphs show the appearance of the most common X-Men characters (Wovlerine, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Storm & Gambit) during the so-called "Claremont Run".
Chris Claremont is a famous...
Malaysia is a multiracial, multilingual and multicultural country. The Chinese, as the second largest race, has also influenced the cultural development of the local society. Malaysian Chinese...
Being an ardent reader, I read tons and sometimes end up reading more than one book simultaneously. It becomes tough to keep track and later to ponder upon and I was looking for creative ways to...
To mark China’s 40th anniversary of economic reforms we look at the impact they had on ordinary people by comparing the average family’s living space in 1978 to 2018. We also look at how peoples’...
Food safety is a popular issue that people have been paying attention all the time, which the pesticide residues in fruits have directly endangered the survival environment and health of human...