At a time where the internet continues to distort our perception of truth, our trust in the content we consume online is diminishing. Data Obscura is our response to this current and pressing quest...

If the world is made of narratives, the best way to forecast our future is to understand which stories are influencing our thinking and technological imagination. By looking at outstanding top...

Visualisation of Russian traffic deaths.

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...

A study on the non-invertibility of translation between languages, Loss in Translation analyzes how the top thousand nouns in English are translated to other languages and back. This is interesting...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...

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...

After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.

Hard-earned lessons from our notebook about information design and infographics. Hands-on, honest and condensed.   We’ve been working in the field of infographics and visual information for...

Park Life is a physical installation consisting of painted panels that visualizes the diversity of animal life found in five U.S. National Parks: Death Valley, Glacier, Grand Teton, Hot Springs,...

I grew coffee and drank it, made some notes.

This data visualisation consists of handmade paper trees. There are 20 trees, one for each of the 20 largest UK funders. The features of each tree, such as the lengths of its branches and its...

The number of days we’ve gone this year without a mass shooting. As a nation, our longest streak ends at only five days.

We found ourselves reading more than we’d like to admit of the 312 page testimony of Glenn Simpson for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Realizing that the testimony itself didn’t provide enough...

Pima Air Museum is a large aviation museum in the desert of Arizona, known for its vast "Bone Yard" of aircraft. The overarching purpose of this rebrand is to create a unique experience for...

A big data revolution is reshaping the world – and transforming football. From the first kick to the last, football is flooded with datapoints giving fresh insights into player and team...

This infographic is about the long trail of death and destruction that “category 5” hurricanes leave every year on their path across the United States and the conterminous seas. The visualization...

The path to power means checking certain boxes.

SORTING is an algorithm visualization and sonification work created by Yuan Ren. Through computer programming, the sorting history, data comparison, data swap, absolute error, residual sum of...

A deep dive into dog breeding history and the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Dogs have been companions to humans for thousands of years and as the relationship has developed, so have various...

A Voronoi diagram visualisation of air quality in Bristol, England.

Everything that is a department store must converge.

Since the 1970's there have been attempts to introduce a kind of a unitary patent; all unsuccessful. Will it be different this time? Will the UK participate regardless of Brexit? Interestingly,...

A beautiful way to visualise which funders are supporting the growth of user-led organisations.

The spending bill deadline has come and gone. Here are the federal workers that will be affected.

IKEM teamed up with the design agency Ellery Studio to develop the first-of-its-kind Infographic Energy Transition Coloring Book! The book tells the story of climate change and the energy...

We have a created a platform featuring 50 years of Billboard US Top 100 (1965-2015) showcasing 50 years, 5000 songs, 2500 artists and 5 emotions.

This is an infographic comparing and contrasting two of the most popular social media apps, Snapchat and Instagram. This piece follows a timeline orientation and shows the different milestones each...

COMMIT is a data visualization and sonification work created by Ren Yuan. By getting the commit history of more than 400 developers on the Processing, p5.js, Processing.py and Processing for...