How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...

A decade into America’s deadly fentanyl crisis, the supply chain fueling the narcotic’s production has grown into a ruthlessly efficient global trade, but one that’s almost a complete black box....

Water is a fundamental resource that shapes ecosystems, industries, and individuals. However, managing this currently plentiful resource in Alberta is increasingly complex due to the impacts of...

The National Football League (NFL) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) partnered more than eight months ago to challenge students minoring in Creative Technology to reimagine all of the...

For traditional Chinese medicine, many people have misconceptions that traditional Chinese medicine has no scientific basis and is very old and will be eliminated. But in today's China, traditional...

Every day we hear about weather conditions for the future times, what happen if we take a step back and try to see what happened in the past years? The aim of this project is to visualize the...

Poster about veganism. The central image explains guidelines for how to carry out a healthy vegan diet, and the elements around it explain data related to this position.

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual...

Aisin Gioro Nurhachi was the founder of the Qing Dynasty. He had a remarkable military record all his life. With the time latitude as the logic and the space latitude as the clue, we deeply study...

Tributary poster for Nicolas Feltron, renowned for his “Annual Feltron Reports”, is a pioneering information designer whose work has shaped the way we understand personal data storytelling.

People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in...

Communication is critical during a public health emergency like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But misinformation and rumors about COVID-19 and COVID vaccines, undermine efforts to keep people...

The UN's Net Zero 2050 plan is currently off track, with mixed progress across countries that have signed up. While over 130 nations have pledged net-zero targets, only a few are making substantial...

This story describes the agricultural implications of a potential nuclear conflict in terms of calories, both the amount that crops might produce and the amount that we might consume under...

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

When it comes to sand mining, the Singapore government is often closed to scrutiny. As a result, it is often cast as a villain, guzzling sand from its neighbours while it grows bigger through...

To move within the universe of emotions is important to understand its structure and know what we will find elements in it, such as galaxies, emotions, comets and different types of lines, and...

Displayed on touchscreens and mobiles at HP Discover Las Vegas, HP What Matters uses data visualization to showcase the results of a survey of 3 500 IT executives.

MapInSeconds lets people create choropleth maps just by copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet/Excel. A major goal of this is to make map-making straightforward and accessible. The maps can...

The Contracts Portal was developed as a research project for the City of Montreal, as it moves towards greater transparency within its contracting. The city has been actively researching,...

Gender inequality does not start in the workplace - many women are born into unsafe environments with inadequate access to health care and technology.

Santiago, Dominican Republic, is developing a 12.8 km monorail to improve its public transportation network. This system will connect 14 stations along a northwest-to-south route, with the capacity...

Where a divided nation stands, half a century after Martin Luther King’s death

I analyzed the "um's" I used during a talk I gave at the 2018 Tableau conference, noting the average number of um's per minute, their increase over time, and the relationship between the um's and...

This piece is a timeline depicting the history of the Rugby World Cup (rugby union) and includes a visual representation of the scores of all matches at each tournament. The majority of matches are...

The project started with a walk of little steps through the forest of server infrastructure, big data and nuclear power stations. It continued with forming an estimate of electricity used by the...

The inspiration for Sensory Realm stems from the regulatory abilities of the American flamingo in the field of perception, giving birth to a jewelry installation. Sensory Realm endeavors to...

Through the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi I got interested in network science. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks impressed me. After...

This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...