A report from ETH Zurich recently re-published by Harvard economics department, mapping out the various ethnic groups around the world. We were curious how this might compare with modern...
I initially created this map for a GISMO exhibit at the Queens Museum, "Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World". There, the map existed in print form and focused only on Queens.
The data comes...
Fear wields significant influence in our daily existence, often operating beneath our conscious awareness. Many of our choices stem from the instinctual urge for self-preservation and the desire to...
Online censorship consists of the control or the removal of certain contents that are accessible to the public. It exists because some governments and platforms want to regulate content. In...
Poster about veganism. The central image explains guidelines for how to carry out a healthy vegan diet, and the elements around it explain data related to this position.
The Directory – Mapping Sexuality in India – is a compendium of the names of institutions, organisations, publications, audio-visual material, digital outlets, and events in the broad sphere of...
Flags of Inequality is a work that would not exist if there was full legislative equality for the LGBTQ+ communities in 49 European countries. This work is based on ILGA Europe's Rainbow Index, a...
“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads.
The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...
An exploration of how age, gender, and race affect casting of professional productions of Shakespearean plays. A deep dive into data from 1,000+ productions of 10 Shakespearean plays produced...
Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective.
The...
Gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women, and we need data to hold tech companies accountable. Viz for Social Good collaborated with Dear Tech People to visualize diversity...
I created a comic series that explores a range of data literacy concepts that's accessible to those who don't consider themselves "data people." We follow Becky, who describes herself as a bit...
This infographic shows a wide collection of writing systems, arranged accordingly to their respective phylogenetic relationships. Lines skirting the outer edge represent existing systems, while...
These are four interactive data visualizations that are based on the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary. The application provides additional information on the authors of...
Perfect Match is an annual Valentine's Day matchmaking service built for Cornell University that algorithmically pairs students with their perfect matches. The set of visualizations, based on the...
You traverse an American’s family tree, and eventually you find an immigrant. And most of the time, you don’t have to go back that far.
So … what if everyone went back where they came...
What we search for reveals something of ourselves: our interests, our fears, our curiosity, or simply what we have forgotten. And it's not just what we search for, as how we search reveals...
A visual experiment that evaluates the evolving graphic symbolism of the United States, True Colors is a collection of flags generated from the 2016 American Community Survey. Each flag is based on...
Analysis and comparison of the word usage in six of the world's major sacred texts—Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), Bible (Judaism and Christianity), Dhammapada (Buddhism), Quran (Islam), Tao Te Ching...
Every day we use social media to share with the world everything from the inane to our innermost thoughts. But could this digital footprint be misinterpreted as something more sinister? Can the use...
Zhang Jian advocated "industry to save the country" and "education to build up the nation", and was an early pioneer in the field of cotton textile and education in China. He made great...
In the process of contemporary urbanization in China, new workers are the main body and practitioner of urban space construction. However, there is no room for them to live in the beautiful city...
I’ve always had a special relationship of curiosity and affection towards languages.
Languages can be seen as living structures. They develop in a given context, they evolve, they change and...
This animation shows the early start of all public transport on Monday morning 16 November 2020. The date is not a specific choice.
However, the weekday is. Monday is the start of the (work)...
Dogs are amazing, man’s best friend you might say! But for any dog owners, you’ll know that they come with some unusual habits, like snoring, excessive farting and howling in their sleep.
To...
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As a kind of non-material wealth, Dalian dialect is the carrier of regional culture, and its scope and frequency of application are shrinking. This map describes the development process...
With the release of the annual health report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I looked at the subcategories of mortality, as defined by the World Health Organization, focusing...