The Sign of the City explores how urban signage reveals hidden layers of a city’s cultural, economic, and lexical fabric. Challenging the concepts in Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City and...

How far can you drive in one hour in different European capitals? This visualization attempts to answer that question.  

Dubai is known to be home to several expats who come here to make their livelihoods. While looking at a country's attractiveness and in order to make decisions to move and/or settle in a place, a...

This visualisation shows the bathymetric contours of the Gulf of México. The light and shadow accentuates the otherwise flat blue palette to highlight the depths of the gulf. The visualisation is...

Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...

In Copenhagen - one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world - 50% of all citizens commute by bike daily. This poster illustrates the bicycle counts in 2014 on four different streets in...

Hot air balloon model by LowPolyBenjamin from CGTrader. Video: https://youtu.be/4rNZxua2_qE #MapboxGL #MapTiler #ThreeJS #WebGL #3D #maps #buildings #hotair #balloons #fly #nyc #manhattan...

Only 15% of young people aspire to become a scientist. This is part of the wider STEM crisis happening in the UK. Terrific Scientific is the BBC's new science campaign for Primary Schools aimed at...

This project is an interactive website illustrating the dynamics of Shenzhen through data analysis on 165 metro station areas. With this metro searching tool, the readers can have a better idea of...

This project uses satellite imagery to find the average colors of each US county across 2020. It was an awful year, and I found a form of solace in zooming out, ignoring all our human activities,...

Insect biodiversity in the City of Melbourne

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

These infographics show the constellations of various countries around the world. The data used to create the maps draws on areas of artificial brightness, which occludes the visibility of stars in...

Ever noticed what’s outside a classroom window? Schools in Austin can apply for City of Austin grants for school-based projects that could include up to eight environmental areas. These areas...

Almost 100 years after Carter G Woodson had the idea of Black History Month, Mona Chalabi examines the geography of black America.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes hourly Air Quality readings at hundreds of sites nationwide, and produces an Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures how healthy the air is at...

I did a survey and observed cycles in and around my college campus based on their condition if they are geared or non-geared, where they are located, whether they are locked or not and much more....

Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damages) is a visual journalism project which sheds a light on the destruction of historical heritage during the Syrian civil war. Text insights and maps...

The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...

This visualisation explores which countries in 2010 produced the largest amount of plastic waste and what percentage of this was inadequately managed, but more importantly how does this management...

The USDA updated its plant hardiness map for the first time in 11 years. The updated map opens up new possibilities for home gardeners, but there are limits. Let’s explore how the map has changed...

The Map represents 30 years of changes in the Brahmaputra River’s meandering patterns and surface water footprint in Assam, India. Using satellite imagery and GIS tools, the study maps and depicts...

Goal 11 of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This project starts with UN Goal 11 and...

We compare land prices in different cities to find out what kind of home you could buy (and, above all, what size) after collecting the prize from the Christmas Special Draw and paying the...

Mapping the cities and places with the worst access.

This is a collection of notebooks about drawing and animating ‘waterlines’—an old technique for showing water in maps—in JavaScript. The notebooks walk through different approaches in code, connect...

I've focussed on data and the opportunities for better understanding cities in continuous movement, in this example, I’m having fun using Waze data with Python and R scripts in Power BI that...

The “A Day in the Life of the Tube” viz summarises the 5 million daily journeys on the underground using the 2015 Rolling O&D survey, and splitting the data into two-hourly periods. The viz...

Heavy rainfall and freezing winters – how has the climate changed in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region over the last 40 years? This multi-page data tool was created by Aeon Collective,...

This website renders every single road within a city. It uses OpenStreetMap public data and allows users to view roads of nearly all cities of the world, and if they so desire export them into SVG...