This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...

In late June, Deb Roy approached me to ask if I would be interested in doing some visualization work for a presentation he’d be giving at Twitter’s all-hands event with Bridgit Mendler. The...

The Banda Ultralarga (Ultrafast Broadband) Strategic Plan ("BUL") for Italy was announced in 2015 with a promise that by 2020, infrastructure to support broadband internet connection would reach...

This project is an interactive visualization of a scientific publication on the topic of the global oxygen budget and its future projection from Jianping Huang et al. (2018). It shows where and...

Our brains allow us to do all sorts of things unique to humans: use sarcasm, solve crossword puzzles, envision our future. Their complexity also leaves us susceptible to conditions we don’t see in...

This map visualizes the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000...

The maps and visuals in Scientific American’s “Sacrifice Zones” illustrate the catastrophic fallout from a concerted nuclear attack on U.S. land-based missile silos, which are deliberately designed...

How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results. The advent of...

This dual language (English/Russian) digital artwork visualises the flights and fates of all the known Soviet Space Dogs. The sad story of Laika, the first animal to go into orbit, is known...

We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day. Reuters sourced, shredded, weighed then visualised real piles of plastic to illustrate how much enters our...

The rating of Moscow public schools since 2020 year

This artwork shows the periodic table structured according to the nation and year of discovery of each element. Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

With help from Google, police can drop a virtual dragnet over crime scenes that locate people’s phones within about 10 feet of accuracy. A warrant launches a three-step process, which starts with...

This project is called Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to analyze Unsub data. Unsub is a collection analysis tool that many academic libraries use to analyze their journal...

Every year since 2010, software provider Adobe has published its Digital Trends Report: results of an international survey taken by marketing, advertising, e–commerce, creative, and technology...

Centuries ago cities designated 12pm as the moment the Sun reached its highest point overhead. These days that would be too inconvenient, and thus we have time zones. However, depending on...

Merck can trace its roots all the way back to the seventeenth century when Friedrich Jacob Merck opened up shop as an apothecary in a small city in what is today southern Germany. After the...

This piece encodes part of my DNA sequence (the first chromosome) as a Sierpiński fractal triangle. Twenty coloured triangles make up the base units corresponding to twenty distinct genotype calls....

The Climate Spiral is a data visualization originally designed by climate scientist Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading in 2016. The present...

The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...

Toxic levels of air pollution contribute to serious health complications and premature deaths. In the UK, the legal level of air pollution (measured by PM 2.5*) is currently 20µg/m3, with...

Happiness is a deeply personal experience, yet everyone pursues happiness. Growing up in Beijing and living across the globe sparked my curiosity about the ways different cultures perceive and live...

What is a recommendation in the modern age? We explore this question with RecSys, a modern fable that examines through an every day event (a birthday party) the news ways we explore the world...

Animal hearing frequencies, visualized.

I am a space nerd, so when I found data on NASA’s exoplanet database, I had to visualise it. The result is this visualisation - created for community project #IronQuest. The visualisation asks...

Over the last decades, the industrial processes behind animal food production have become increasingly complex and diverse. Nowadays, their description presents challenges of technical nature to...

Cosmograph is a novel (and fastest) network graph visualization tool which can draw large networks consisting of up to 1 million nodes and several million edges in real-time. Even on a...

The story of climate change in the United States over the last 100+ years - specifically the level by which temperatures are rising (or not) - is a story told across millions and billions of data...

What Middle-eastern thinkers discovered long before the west.

THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEM IC—ALSO KNOWN AS THE SPANISH FLU — wreaked havoc into 1920 and earned the dubious honor of being the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. In 2020, as many parts of the...