This microsite is an accessible introduction to a historically inaccessible topic: city budgets. The tool allows visitors to learn about the Houston budget, build their own, and then share their...

Modum is a series of large format canvases that explore the rhythm of commercial activity. By plotting scraped business location data, a new kind of data landscape is created: a self portrait of a...

I spent an amazing vacation on the island of La Palma in 2019. And as a memento, I wanted to keep something else besides photos. So I collected statistics about the trip and made a set of five...

The Close-up Cloud visualizes a selection of 144 negatives from a collection of around 1700 glass negatives by early photographer and previous draftsman Wilhelm Weimar (1857-1917) that has been...

Epigenetics is a field of research that examines molecular changes in the genome that are influenced by external factors such as nutrition or stress. The latest research results offer great...

The Sagrada Família is a one-of-a-kind temple, for its origins, foundation and purpose. Fruit of the work of genius architect Antoni Gaudi, the project was promoted by the people for the people....

The U.S. military and Hollywood have been actively working together since the dawn of American cinema. This project visualizes more than 500 film productions (gathered with a FOIA) that have...

Four full-page graphics show that no place in the world is safe from the consequences of climate change. Raging Fires devastate huge areas, and even in temperate climate zones, droughts wreck the...

In March 2021, I participated as a volunteer in Viz for Social Good's collaboration with Vera Aqua Vera Vita. “90 Seconds in Piura” is an interactive dashboard that shows the extent of the water...

The Book of Songs is regarded as the origin of Chinese literature and has a prolonged impact on Chinese culture, aesthetics, and morality. In this work, we will share how we analyze the 305 poems...

This infographic shows a wide collection of writing systems, arranged accordingly to their respective phylogenetic relationships. Lines skirting the outer edge represent existing systems, while...

This work sprung from a database on the titles of papers of NBER programs. I kept only papers between 1980 and 2020, removed stopwords, and unified some terms. Then, I obtained the 5 most used...

Global Forest of Endangered Plants This project provides an objective scientific understanding of the proportion of endangered plants in each region/country (Data Source/ IUCN Red List Index May...

Every year, Laudes Foundation publishes its annual report containing the institution's objectives, accomplishments regarding the previous years and challenges for the future. In 2021 we were proud...

People spend on average a third of their lives sleeping. During this time, a multitude of processes take place inside the body, which people are often not even aware of. One of the most complex...

Although the pandemic of novel coronavirus caught humanity unawares, scientists worldwide rapidly started vaccine development. That led to a significant breakthrough in immunology: many developed...

The beauty and benefit of the scientific process is its iterative nature over time. Each individual discovery fits into a body of work, and firm conclusions develop only after many years and many...

Dates in a Life Walking Project 2021, was a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walk each day. I've documented my steps in paintings for the years 2016 through 2020 and I decided...

This story investigated and explained sanctions during the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially why certain individuals/entities were not sanctioned over their critical...

While we all strive for it, happiness is a hard thing to achieve. This was especially true for 2020 which according to the Hedonometer was the saddest year on record. Living these sad thoughts...

I was challenged by friends to show how bars are distributed in Brazil. I received data on registered companies that have the word "bar" in their name and made a poster out of that. The main...

At the heart of climate change lies the increasing amount of fossil fuel emissions and the consequent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Since the beginning of the industrial...

A streamgraph of the Beatles discography showing song writers along 13 core albums between 1963-1970 + 8 top songs issued as singles . The songs are spread below the albums as black dots or a...

As part of our light-hearted Christmas issue in 2020, we published an article investigating the toxological impacts of the ingredients of George’s Marvellous Medicine from Roald Dahl’s famous book....

Visualizing the annual literary awards for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements.

Visualizes the what percentage of your life USA is at war according to your birth year.

Sunny Street is changing the world by providing heartfelt healthcare to our community’s most vulnerable people. They partnered with Viz for Social Good in collaboration to articulate their social...

Although there's been other databases that have tracked LGBTQ characters on TV, Insider produced a first-of-its-kind database to track the historical presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

The Witcher, a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, has inspired multiple computer games and was even launched on Netflix in 2019, with the latest season airing in December 2021. Fictional...

Two Soviet steppe tortoises had already flown around the moon by the time Neil Armstrong set foot on it in 1969. Initial animal studies focused on adaptability to and logistics of travel as many...