In 2016, around 31 075 Million US$ (SIPRI Trend Indicator Value at constant 1990 prices) worth of arms were traded all around the world. In 2015, this figure was 28 448 Million US$. In 2016, this...

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It last made voice contact less than an hour...

As large amounts of genealogical data made open, people could trace back their family roots. Our data source is the China Biographical Database of Harvard University. We further explored the...

Emoto captured and visu­al­ised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic Games on Twitter. The project consisted of an interactive online visualization, realtime data-journalism...

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...

This data visualization mobile emphasizes that geographical distance and physical presence or absence no longer dictate a relationship's significance, relevance, or depth in today's interconnected...

Interactive visualisation with data from the UN's Human Development Report about well-being and development. The website is designed with the aim of presenting well-being in a visual way through...

This study explores the relationship between human communities and natural ecosystems, focusing on what happens when they intersect. We aim to understand how conflicts and losses are seen and...

During the 2020 Lockdown in the UK I would play the game Drawful 2, a pictionary game, with my family. One family member makes very challenging drawings, can you interpret them? And what can we...

ghg worked with Save the Children to communicate the impact and prevalence of child malnutrition around the world, particularly in developing nations. As a leading non-profit organization...

Dutch Data Design is run by Mirjam Leunissen, an Amsterdam-based data visualization and infographics specialist with a scientific background.

Dissecting thoughts through languages: Consciously extracting and quantifying the components of the languages I use on a daily basis. In this project, I looked at my WhatsApp messages and voice...

Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...

This infographic classifies the adherents of major religions to visualiSe the relative (and changing) sizes of different faiths. The chosen format takes inspiration from the imagery of a sceptre,...

The foremost social network focused on professionals, LinkedIn gathers valuable information on individual job-seekers, job-holders, and businesses worldwide. We work with LinkedIn to highlight some...

The best places in Italy that every foodie has to visit and why, with a unique gastronomic journey.

"The Next Bechdel Test" was a months-long project searching for and testing ways to measure inclusion and representation in the American film industry. With input from professionals in and around...

This visual shows 20 recreations of W.E.B Dubois' data portraits from the 1900, many of which were shown in the “The Exhibit of American Negroes”. It was a part of the Dubois Challenge on twitter...

In 2022, I went with my husband to Billie's Craft Beer Fest in Antwerp. When I got home, I decided to make an analysis of the beers we drank that day and how we scored those beers. You can see the...

This project attempts to visualise the results of an online survey about women's health in a beautiful and functional dashboard. The data were collected by Yonder Data Solutions on behalf of Women...

This visualization illustrates the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision and subsequent state laws, such as the Florida 6-week abortion ban, on abortion access in the United States. It...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

The maps and visuals in Scientific American’s “Sacrifice Zones” illustrate the catastrophic fallout from a concerted nuclear attack on U.S. land-based missile silos, which are deliberately designed...

The idea of 'home' to me is an intriguing one - many people associate it with a constant physical location, but in my case, my location was constantly changing.This infographic is aimed to chart my...

Climate change is an increasingly significant phenomenon and it’s likely to become irreversible. In this website, we analyzed how the international community is acting to mitigate the human...

The 360Giving Trend Engine application allows users to quickly explore the UK grant making landscape. Users can browse who has funded which themes and track the location of grants recipients over...

Re-count, is a sound archive and speculative educational tool that measures human lifetimes. Containing audio clips of memories lasting varying durations juxtaposed against an illuminated timeline,...

Fear wields significant influence in our daily existence, often operating beneath our conscious awareness. Many of our choices stem from the instinctual urge for self-preservation and the desire to...