I went through the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction from 1950 to present, and for each year measured the ratio of books-written-by-women to books-written-by men and tracked that over...
Kim Jong Un’s policy of nuclear brinkmanship is based on North Korea’s ability to build and launch ballistic weapons with nuclear payload. We assess and map the country's efforts to fulfil this...
This (static) visualization shows the almost 3000 satellites that were still active in space around September 1st, 2020. By turning each satellite into a separate circle, but grouping them by the...
Joyful Data is a tool for making custom data-driven graphics in a live, interactive editor. It narrows the gap for non-programmers to create bespoke visualisations while maintaining design control....
The circular visualizations show the average daily temperatures from 2011 to 2020 for selected major cities around the world. The cities were purposefully selected to represent different seasonal...
The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, breaking the previous record set in 2016. This temperature record was driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El...
Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...
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:...
The Pharma Transport town shows the complex routes through which the pharmaceuticals we use every day end up in the environment (and come back to us through food and water). It uses the visual...
The World Cup is a weeks-long feast of sport. This suite of pages gave readers an expansive way to follow the action with live match stats and commentary, team lineups and history, a fun take on...
From First Spark to the Personal Computer
From Michael Faraday to Steve Jobs, innovators have improved upon the work of those before them—in both direct and indirect ways—to push human progress...
In December of 2015, the Supreme Court heard Evenwel v. Abbott, a case that could have drastically altered how election districts are drawn by counting eligible voters instead of all residents....
An ambient, animated map that reveals the city’s transit rhythms. Leverage NYC open data, the map turns hourly ridership data into a dynamic, time-driven map. Each station is represented as a point...
This project uses an interactive 3D globe with over 1,000 relatively evenly distributed points over Earth's landmasses to tell the story of climate change. You can animate each point's temperature...
A web application that visually reconstructs the thoughts and feelings which occurred during a classical musical performance.
Keynote and documentation at...
This project represents data getting breached in selected amount of sectors, from the year 2004 to 2022, and the number of records lost due to it. It gives insights on the intensity of sensitive...
Our annual Kuijpers family get together is approaching and this year I’ve been working on this idea to visualize my family tree in a more challenging way. And since I can’t memorize all family...
Reuters investigates the persistent use of flammable cladding materials in high-rise buildings, including those used on Grenfell Tower in London.
The piece focuses on a devastating fire that...
This print is an infographic documenting the loves of Marilyn Monroe, it shows where Marilyn met her love, what his occupation it was, what year they met and what type of relationship it was. This...
I can't read music but I can parse it. The talent of reading music has always escaped me which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family. However, I've always enjoyed how sheet...
In recent years, an increasing number of terrorist attacks have shocked communities around the world. Many of the gravest attacks have occurred in nations often overlooked by Western media, such as...
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...
Gerrymandering is having a moment. A number of cases concerning the fairness of district maps have been heard in both state and federal court over the past year. But although district boundaries...
General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha. As India awaited the outcome of the 2024 General elections, this...