Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

Two data visualization enthusiasts take on a year-long data visualization project. Tracking quantified-self data In the spirit of Dear Data, but with the twist that we traded data sets to be...

Grand Playbill transforms century-old Peking Opera playbills from the Capital Library into an interactive dual-screen installation. Visualizing over 3659 performers and their connections, it...

For this collaboration with the International Detention Coalition, we have been asked, following the IDC brand guidelines, to design a few visualisations adequate for both print and digital...

This data visualization is an encoded self-portrait. It is an interactive piece of data art that explores the concept of Intersectional feminism and the Matrix of Dominance. Using the metaphor of a...

"Schematics: A Love Story" is a unique and experimental board book that pairs found scientific line graphics with simple prose to form a narrative in which life is mapped, charted and diagramed....

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

Access to good-quality affordable housing is a fundamental need and key to achieving a number of social policy objectives, including reducing poverty and enhancing equality of opportunity, social...

Skateboarding Skateboard is the ancestor of extreme sports history, many extreme sports are extended from skateboarding events. Skateboarding, which evolved from surfing in the late 1950s and early...

With abolitionist Harriet Tubman coming to the $20 bill, the women-on-currency issue deserves some context. Though men are featured on bank notes far more than women, the Tribune tracked down...

An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow

Diagrams of daily wind and temperatures during one year for the most populated city in each state. Colorful diagrams display five daily measurements for an full year in each city: wind direction,...

Analyzing Shakespear's play, we look at main characters (spoken word dialog accounts for at least 10% of total dialog) and their spoken words in each scene. Outer bands represent each scene in the...

Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...

BlurM3Not is a physical installation that bridges the digital world, leveraging data as a tool to spark conversations and reflections on social behaviors in the digital realm and the biases that...

Assessing population well-being is as complex as it is sensitive, requiring careful consideration of various factors contributing to individuals’ quality of life. While established metrics such as...

Apart from waypoints and natural jet streams, there are many man-made constraints such as political, legal and financial restrictions on airspace. Countries use airspace to collect fees or leverage...

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:...

In collaboration with the NFL's 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report, Playfair Data presents an analysis of occupational mobility patterns within the NFL. The annual study, now in its 10th year,...

Eloise was born across town at the same hospital as Dorian. Hospitals, as it turns out, are full of data visualizations. We were at the hospital for some routine tests when the adventure began....

After a year of conflict, two-thirds of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed, leaving behind 42 million tonnes of rubble and a mountain of health risks. Reuters visualises the scale of...

Centuries ago cities designated 12pm as the moment the Sun reached its highest point overhead. These days that would be too inconvenient, and thus we have time zones. However, depending on...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life, being educated and having a decent standard of...

Collection of every job that was performed on the USS Enterprise in The Original Series listed by individual episodes. Main characters and the regular extra are shown with unique icons. All others...

Metal Underground imagines the sub-genres of heavy metal and related rock as nodes on a transit map with their relationships to each other traced out by subway, tram, and light rail routes. Route...

A fun interactive chart which lets you model various outcomes of the election results, selecting how each US state votes to see the impact on the election.

I wanted to understand how much time it takes superstar musicians to play in countries around the world. This project looks at how concert culture has changed over the decades and how music is...

The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...

In advance of Arrested Development‘s long-awaited fourth season, we created an interactive visualization of the show’s running jokes. The website allows visitors to click on an episode to see every...

The aim of this project is to represent invisible data on the topic of gender-based violence by displaying it in a poster and a data physicalization. Since July 2023, following the violence known...