In summer 2016, there were a series of massive floods in China, affecting more than ten million people and killing thousands across the country. In some regions of northern China, the loss was...

For this project, we analyzed over 500 photographs of bird species provided by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, whose extensive media collection helps researchers identify...

Forest fires is an important problem that affects both the natural and built environment as well as the inhabitants of these areas in various ways. Forest fires, which can occur as a result of...

An exploration into high altitude mountaineering. This project takes two different approaches to visualise data on the highest peaks on earth – one digital, one analogue. Drawing on data from...

We need to communicate data in a way that it makes people stop and think. In this data video the climate stripes blend with an animated emoji showing annual global temperature anomalies. The...

All 4.5 million Uber pick-ups, and 82.4 million yellow cab pick-ups between April and September 2014. The rise of Uber is well documented, but the geographic complexity is often harder to see as...

The wolf – 2 sides of the discussion The wolf is back in the Netherlands and causing a big stir. While reading and listening about the wolf, I learned a lot, for example: - the wolf needs 4 kg...

Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale. We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and...

This interactive data visualisation project answers the question of what fruits and vegetables are in season throughout the year. Picking food locally when it's in season usually means it'll be:...

This comprehensive, trans-boundary atlas contains over 100 maps of Arctic marine mammals, seabirds, sea ice, subsistence, and more. The Atlas is organized into six sections that build, layer by...

The project was intended to capture the essence of a place through a particular lens, using abstraction and schematisation as the key tools to form a mental model of the place. The image of the...

This visualisation shows the Holocene volcanoes of Japan as illuminated points atop shaded relief. The visualisation is created using the free and open-source R statistical computing language,...

This is what would look like, if the annual emissions from cars in Los Angeles would form a big bubble instead of mixing into the air. That bubble would be hovering right over Downtown Los Angeles...

These ‘Monsoon Rainfall Clocks’ describe the monthly rainfall totals between 1905-2015 for India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the UK. Each gradated coloured curve represents one year, its distance from...

A creative and experimental map-like visualisation crafted for cheese and wine lovers. Depiction of the principal vineyard regions in Metropolitan France as red wine spills fallen on a...

Modum is a series of large format canvases that explore the rhythm of commercial activity. By plotting scraped business location data, a new kind of data landscape is created: a self portrait of a...

This map shows the flow of all domestic freight between states in 2015 using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, which is a comprehensive accounting of all commercial freight movement between...

How Hong Kong has changed since handover from music to politics, fashion to infrastructure, these graphics explore the evolution of Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from...

The Minimum Fleet Network model proposes efficient vehicle-trip assignments that reduce the empty time between trips with a passenger onboard. This way, a taxi can serve more passengers in the same...

"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...

This project takes a deep dive into how the climate in Russian cities has evolved since 1950, exploring the changes from several perspectives. The Yandex Researches team worked closely with...

Environmentalists have warned for decades that Mekong River dams were threatening the natural flow of sediment – a centuries-old system delivering nutrient-rich mud down the 5,000-km waterway to...

The Climate Bracelet encodes decades of temperature changes in Arkhangelsk, Russia, using the Warming Stripes method by Ed Hawkins. Each pair of bead rows represents a year, with red for warmer...

Your one-stop-shop for the 2024 eclipse.

This wiz maps the numbers of tigers before and after the conservation program worldwide, as well as in India.

This is an interactive edition of my previous static map titled The United States of the Blooming Risks. Using FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) dataset, this map aggregates the county-level scores...

Visualise the sun's position through the seasons and see the sunlight’s effect on your surroundings in augmented reality. With the 'Hello, Sun.' app you’ll never be left wondering where the sun is...

Looking at just one flower, what does it need to survive and how might those needs be impacted by climate change? A flower represents, in and of itself, its surrounding climate as well as the...

The U.S. is filled with towns and cities that were named after foreign places: You can take a trip to Naples, N.Y., or Paris, Texas. — and go on a world tour without ever leaving your home state....

This data visualization explores the main milestones in the quest to summit the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Over the decades this pursuit has become synonymous with our...