Few things are more frustrating than collecting your belongings only to realize that your pants pockets can’t fit them. For wearers of women’s clothes, the struggle is real. Like many things on the...
Wall Street is entering a new era. The fraternity of bond jockeys, derivatives mavens and stock pickers who've long personified the industry are giving way to algorithms, and soon, artificial...
NYPD has significantly reduced arrests for subway turnstile jumping. But who gets arrested hasn’t changed: 9 out of 10 of those arrested for turnstile jumping are black or Hispanic. Across the...
Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but...
Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this?
"To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...
Mapping the movement of Pigeons - Mapping Municipal Market, Ahmedabad
Located adjoining one of the busiest streets of the city of Ahmedabad, the municipal market hosts a lot of visitors every day....
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump promised he’d protect American jobs by weeding out cheap foreign steel and aluminum. To make good on that promise, he has launched investigations into...
This visualization (interactive version here) is a musical history of one of my favorite artists: Bruce Springsteen. It focuses on his 200 songs and 17 original studio albums over a 45 year career....
Academic affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic...
If we take the pleasure and abstractness of the senses when we appreciate music in the daytime and use the physical model to image the emotion on the crystal, you will get a great feast. The...
The HICP is the best economic indicator of the real cost of living across Europe. However most people don't know about it.
In a self initiated project we took the challenge of introducing the...
This page lists media reports, collected by Google News, about hate crimes and bias incidents. The “keywords” column contains names and places found in the news reports in the “articles” column....
Both men and women have crafted the world as we know it. Now, just for a minute, take a quick look around. Think about your work or your hobbies. How many women are a reference in those fields?
Trends in sea-ice thickness and volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize a ocean-ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and...
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods, with poor nutritional value, that people eat a lot of.
Thankfully we have The Michelin Guide | Main Countries of Europe...
Cruising to a fourth term in the March 18 elections, Vladimir Putin is relying on a deep well of support based on two main factors: the huge rise in living standards over his 18 years in office...
A healthy Twitter conversation can be seen as one with long chains of replies that have little to no toxic messaging. For a conference talk urging cultivation of healthier conversations, I...
Up to 79,000 Mexican migrants has been deported from the US back to Mexico. This view shows each record graphically to gain a better understanding of the data. Who they are, born city, skills,...
Using data visualization can improve the effectiveness of human rights work that involves data. In particular, combining data and visuals in the promotion of human rights enables advocates to...
NASA registered 2016 and 2017 as the hottest years in Hong Kong’s history. On August 22, 2017, the mercury soared, measuring record temperatures of 36.6°C, making it the hottest day since 1884....
The experiences of female sex workers are widely misrepresented and misunderstood. This three-part series invites viewers to consider the experiences of these women including, 1) Risk factors that...
During this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, the English golfer Tommy Fleetwood shot a record-equalling final round of 63 (7 under par). Although Fleetwood missed out on the...
The project “Wall of Silence” reflects on the systemic conditions that allowed for the sexual abuse of 265 young gymnasts at the hands of their physician, Larry Nassar. While media coverage has...
A year-long project featuring a friendly monthly competition between two data professionals. This project involves community participation and an opportunity to learn and experiment.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report is an important measure of our economy’s health. But much of the news coverage overestimates the importance of early numbers that are subject to...
Funding Trends is a free and interactive web app visualising data to present key trends on donations from UK grantmakers and a dedicated dashboard for each funder. It uses a variety of...