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    August 28, 2100

    This map uses NASA data to visualize the estimated maximum near surface air temperature on August 28, 2100 at over a million points on the earth's surface. Users can compare the situation with...
    08-28-2100.com
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    Guns on the Move

    The extent to which guns from states that are better for gun owners are used in crimes in states less friendly to gun owners is a topic of much study. We explore the same question visually using...
    gunsonthemove.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
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    Inflation Conundrum

    Growth rates among the world's major economies are rising at levels not seen in years, yet the missing link to the boom is inflation. In much of Europe as well as the United States, inflation...
    tmsnrt.rs
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    Queering The Map

    Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping project that locates queer moments, memories, and histories in relation to physical space. As queer life becomes increasingly less centered...
    www.queeringthemap.com
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    Cost of Activism: Deaths of Political Prisoners in Iranian State Custody (1999-2018)

    In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...
    www.iranhumanrights.org
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    Navigating Brexit Waters

    As part of the transition deal announced in March 2018, Britain agreed to remain within the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy for around 20 months after Britain leaves the EU on March 29,...
    tmsnrt.rs
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    Mass Exodus

    Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to neighboring Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. The exodus was sparked by a fierce military response...
    tmsnrt.rs
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    Film or Digital? Breaking Down Hollywood's Choice of Shooting Medium

    In 2017, there are still directors who shoot on film (sometimes exclusively). Others use both film and digital when it serves a purpose. In this project, I explore the filmmaker's choices. When we...
    pudding.cool
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    My Uber Rides

    A data visualisation designed as a classroom project to representing an aspect of our own lives, with the aim of discovering new insights and communicating our findings clearly to the viewers. This...
    www.behance.net
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    Exodus - Visualizing Refugee data

    Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a...
    www.behance.net
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    A Visual Guide to 'The Big Lebowski'

    In the twenty years since its 1998 release, Joel and Ethan Coen's neo-noir buddy comedy 'The Big Lebowski' has emerged as a cult sensation. A yearly festival is devoted to the film and its...
    fluidencodings.com
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    UNHCR StreamGraph Explorer

    This visualization project comissioned by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) shows flows of refugees and other persons of concern over time using an interactive StreamGraph. Clicking on a...
    unhcr.github.io
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    What Is A Trillion Dollars

    How much is a trillion dollars? Exactly. Who knows? Nobody. But here are a load of trillion dollar values visualized so you can at least *see* what $trillion looks like.
    informationisbeautiful.net
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    Billboard Music Evolution (2007 - 2017)

    How different are the songs from each year? This is a data visualisation showing the evolution of Billboard's top-charting music between 2007 and 2017. This was originally a university...
    www.behance.net
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    Casting a Wider Net

    Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.
    tmsnrt.rs
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    Climate Change Cross Stitch

    Each row of this cross stitch represents the average temperature for that year. It starts from 1880 (top row) to 2017 (bottom row). White is the average temperatures of the years 1900 to 2000. The...
    tinyurl.com
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    Narco Arruina Exportaciones Ticas Para Llegar A Rentable Mercado Europeo

    Drug trafficking infiltrated the national export logistics to control farms, packers, transport routes, shipping companies and ports. Hidden in containers with fruits and vegetables, they sail...
    www.nacion.com
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    Artificial Senses

    Artificial Senses visualizes sensor data of the machines that surround us to develop an understanding how they experience the world. In current times, machine learning and artificial...
    artificial-senses.kimalbrecht.com
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    Arctic sea ice volume/thickness

    Trends in sea ice thickness/volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize the ocean and sea ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang...
    sites.uci.edu
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    The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

    Almost half of Americans believe that immigrants make crime worse. But the data tells a different story. This visual piece examines the relationship between immigration and crime in American cities...
    www.themarshallproject.org
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    YAAY Year Review 2017

    Inspired by the approach of our design studio we created an interactive annual review for 2017 based on the hours we worked. Through a navigable timeline, you can see projects that we've worked on...
    yaay.ch
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    Anthropocene Footprints

    The growth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is alarming. This is a handmade visualization of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions for 1990, 2010 and projected for 2030. Three wearable creatures...
    innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    The movie is amazingly complex in its visual language. You can ultimately tear it apart, and each and any one of it has its own meaning. All action unfolds only in 5 places, the 6th one appears...
    www.behance.net
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    Getting so much better all the time? Think again.

    Respondents to polls say they expect their lives to improve with time. In general, they do not.
    www.economist.com
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    The African Water Crisis

    Water scarcity continues to be one of the world's largest problems. Without access to clean water, residents are at constant risk of disease.
    public.tableau.com
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    Twenty Years, 20 Visualisations

    How Hong Kong has changed since handover from music to politics, fashion to infrastructure, these graphics explore the evolution of Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from...
    multimedia.scmp.com
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    Dasavatara : Semiosis And Iconography

    Hindu Mythology is a rich treasure trove of legends and fables. Vishnu is one of the Holy Trinity in Hinduism, responsible for protecting the Universe. The legend of the Ten Incarnations of Vishnu...
    www.behance.net
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    A Better Way To Think About The Jobs Numbers

    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...
    projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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    Visualising Financial Market Contagion

    On the ten year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, how do we visualise financial markets contagion? It may seem an abstract question but abstract financial ideas cratered the world...
    vimeo.com
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    The Colors of Bob Dylan

    Each piece of music has a key: the note on which the whole harmonic composition is built.  How can we use this information to visually represent the complexity of a musician's production over...
    www.behance.net
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