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  • Medium

    AR Space Poster Long

    This infographic was produced as an alternate outcome of my final major project at university. I decided to research how to communicate the possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality...
    must-be-mishka.wixsite.com
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    The Multibillion Euro Theft

    Never before has the state lost so much money through tax trickery. How did the largest tax scandal in postwar German history come to pass? We have the details.
    www.zeit.de
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  • Medium

    Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves

    A nonlinear narrative is a storytelling device that portrays events of a story out of chronological order. Story curves visualize the nonlinear narrative of a movie by showing the order in which...
    storycurve.namwkim.org
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  • Medium

    2016 US Campaign Expenses

    How did candidates spend their money in the 2016 US Election cycle? Data from the FEC
    zhaoanna.me
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  • Medium

    Interactive Brain Art

    An innovative digital art installation on the ground floor of the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus invites visitors to peer inside the brain and meet the...
    news.columbia.edu
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  • Medium

    Human Municipal Development Report

    Datadot developed the Human Municipal Development Report (IDHM) of United Nations Development Programme (UNPD). In this project, Datadot was responsible for data analysis and visualization,...
    atlasbrasil.org.br
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  • Medium

    Great Britain and the European Union of 27

    This latest visualization has its genesis in this reddit thread. I wanted to represent the data therein in a way that would be easier to compare than a print-screen of an Excel table. As time went...
    arnoldplaton.wordpress.com
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  • Medium

    Future Present

    The artwork shows data regarding the utilization of robotics in the future
    visualoop.com
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  • Medium

    Election results 2017: seat by seat

    Latest general election results from the UK’s 650 constituencies. Theresa May’s gamble has failed; the Conservatives have lost their parliamentary majority and have turned to the DUP to support...
    www.theguardian.com
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  • Medium

    The New Top 10 Furnace Cities in China

    Many large cities in China, especially Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing, were traditionally known as “furnace cities”, suffer from long-lasing hot weather in summer. In recent years, with the global...
    www.dropbox.com
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  • Medium

    City of Women

    In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—we tried on what it would look...
    www.newyorker.com
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  • Medium

    Surviving the Titanic

    Choose a Class and / or Gender by clicking on the images to view the survival rates for the people in that group and select ages in the chart below (desktop only). Explore their stories by hovering...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    The Year in Language

    From selfie to wavy, everyday people turn to Google Search to learn definitions, ask questions, and find information. When we add up each of these moments and searches, we see interesting changes...
    googletrends.github.io
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  • Medium

    Making the Connection

    Right now, more than half the world is not connected to the internet, and almost 75% of Africa is offline. Why does this matter? For people living in the poorest parts of the world, access to the...
    www.one.org
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  • Medium

    The Shape of Slavery

    This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    Gazing Poetic Sound

    Language has two aspects - sound and meaning, and yet we don't tend to care about sound as much as we care about its meaning when using language. This project attempts to draw attention to sound...
    www.behance.net
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  • Medium

    Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

    In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    Two Government Agencies. Two Different Climate Maps.

    This story is about how two government agencies differ in their approaches to mapping where differ plant species can survive in which parts of the country. The USDA is constantly improving their...
    fivethirtyeight.com
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  • Medium

    A Constellation Guide to the Sixth Mass Extinction

    A Constellation Guide to the Sixth Extinction is a web VR data visualization project on the modern, man-made episode of mass extinction. The visualization incorporates species datas from IUCN...
    www.6constellation.com
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  • Medium

    Multimodal Symphony

    New York City's transportation system moves millions of people every day, from MTA buses to regional Metro-North rail lines to the omnipresent subway . Multimodal Symphony animates 24 hours of NYC...
    vimeo.com
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  • Medium

    Where each country should be, based on its time zone(s)

    A world map projection exposing the shortcomings of the time zone system; what would the world look like if time zone divisions were actually accurate? This is probably the first projection in...
    xkcd.com
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  • Medium

    UK Government Incomes

    Where does the UK government get its money? How much does it then spend? And on what? Here you can review spending in your abstract metric of choice: billions, percentage of budget, or amount...
    www.informationisbeautiful.net
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  • Medium

    Those Who Did Not Cross

    This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...
    archive.org
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  • Medium

    NAFTA Trade Flows

    What does trade within NAFTA look like? Driven by trade data from the UN Comtrade dataset, this interactive explorable analysis of trade within NAFTA profiles trade over time and across commodity...
    blogs.thomsonreuters.com
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  • Medium

    Let's go on a Pokemon safari!

    Safari zones are nature preserves are different regions where Trainers can catch wild (and sometimes rare) Pokemon. What's unique about Safari Zones is the mechanics by which a trainer can catch...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    #tagsandthecity

    #tagsandthecity renames subway stations after the Instagram hashtag which is most popular around them. So it draws a picture of how a city is photographed and what is going above each...
    tagsandthecity.net
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  • Medium

    The Map of Physics

    Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics. There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It...
    www.youtube.com
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  • Medium

    I am the Greatest

    When Muhammad Ali died in June 2016 we wanted to create a visual tribute to the finest boxer who ever lived. As we run a Slow Journalism magazine, which reports on events at least three months...
    www.slow-journalism.com
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  • Medium

    Wealth Divides

    The growing gap between the top and bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder has been a prominent topic of public discourse in recent years. Statistics vividly portray this phenomenon. According...
    storymaps.esri.com
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  • Medium

    How the opioid epidemic became America's worst drug crisis ever

    Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than HIV/AIDS did at its peak. These maps and charts tell the story.
    www.vox.com
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