Many of us routinely force our bodies to fight sleep. We drink caffeinated beverages by day to stay alert and alcohol to wind down at night. Some of us work all night and sleep in daylight. Others...
Dimensionality reduction is a powerful technique used by data scientists to look for hidden structure, producing visualizations that reveal patterns and clusters in data. Even though the data is...
America has a love affair with pickup trucks. For the last 40 years, the Ford F-150 has been the best selling car in America, but during that time trucks have shifted from humble workhorse vehicles...
An Infographic related to safety tips around mobile phone usage, with handy information pieces in three parts. The first part is dedicated to 10 short tips, such as: ‘What safety conditions do i...
When the world wide web was first released publicly in 1991, it was quickly adopted. As technology advanced and its benefits became clear, many people started integrating the online world into...
In June 2023 the sky over New York City turned dark red. In this graphic analysis, we show why dust clouds cover one of the largest cities in the world.
This visualisation explores the use of plastic bags in the UK. Specifically, I focus on legislation aimed at reducing plastic bag usage and what impact this has made.
The entrant has supplied an...
The chart introduces the formation and evolution of oil into the necessities of our life, from which we can understand the changes of oil from beginning to end. From the chart, we can understand...
In celebration of 100 years of bird banding, Scientific American (Jen Christiansen) commissioned me to create a visualization for the March 2021 edition.
The Bird Banding Laboratory has been...
Atlas is a data visualization catalog inspired by the groundbreaking work of William Playfair and his "The Commercial and Political Atlas," published in 1786. While chart catalogs aren't new, what...
The work we do with our client, the Canadian Climate Institute, is always an opportunity to be bold, collaborative and to gain creative confidence. In this new project, the objective was to reveal...
For thousands of years, humans have used plants for medicinal purposes, and we still source drugs from plants today, including breakthrough treatments for cancer, malaria, neurodegenerative...
Health insurance companies buy prescription drugs the way U.S. consumers buy cars: There’s the sticker price (which few people actually pay) and there’s the negotiated price.
With the development of science and technology, people in the future will be able to set up a lunar orbiting laboratory, and use the moon as a foothold for more distant planets. Flying to the moon...
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...
The first issue of Nature was published in November 1869. Our 150th anniversary issue explored the past, present and future of Nature and of science. A data graphic analysis of the archive shows...
DATA SCIENCE vs FAKE is a video web series to fight against generally accepted ideas, rumours, false informations…
20 short films of DATA about AIDS, gender and climate warming, Available on the...
Bean is an adult green sea turtle from Costa Rica; one of only 90,000 nesting females remaining in the wild. Bean was tagged with a satellite transmitter by the Sea Turtle Conservancy so we can...
WE ARE ALONE ARE WE? is a set of four visualizations on the questions behind the search for extraterrestrial life: Is there any? How could we reach them? What would they look like? And how would we...
As the WHO worked to uncover the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters created this data-driven, visually rich explainer on why bats make the ideal hosts for viruses.
A new analysis conducted on startups failure data set available on www.failory.com* from 100 startups within a 23 years, shows only 3 out of 100 startups have remained active by the year 2017;...
Curative Design is a set of 20 infographics designed for medical students. Our goal was to make beautiful, accurate posters that could be used as both a decoration and a study guide for the US...
Dog genetics reveal surprising relationships among breeds. When it comes to traits, genetics-based lineages are more telling than human-made categories. Includes comparison plots and explainer...
This visualization explores the messages we’ve beamed into the cosmos over the last sixty years. Some are serious scientific endeavours, others less so. Together they represent a time capsule of...
Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...
This infographic is the product of a graphic communications class I took last spring. I chose forest bathing as my research topic because I had read about it previously and found it to be a super...
"But what about protein?" is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions to vegetarians. The doubt arises from the simple view - surrounded by problems - that meat and eggs are the main...