Enrolment of children in elementary school in Costa Rica dropped 12% across six years (2009-2014). This feature visualises the situation in the nation's classrooms and looks to the next five years....

The UN is promoting the compilation of a global database in order to know countries achievements towards a more sustainable sea. ‘Life Below Water’ is the 14th goal of Sustainable development for...

"Synthetic Landscapes" is an immersive multimedia installation featured at La Biennale di Venezia 2023. The exhibition draws a parallel between two regions: the Midwest in the U.S.A. and the Niger...

The Tour de France features a number of “races within the race” beyond the overall competition for the winner’s yellow jersey. There are other winner’s jerseys for the best young rider, the best...

What counts gets counted: 6 years of numbers in radio news

For their ten year anniversary issue, WIRED magazine asked me to create a detailed visualization to accompany an article about how the UK tech industry has flourished over the last decade. The...

People naturally come together to meet shared needs, whether it's navigating the intricacies of financial interdependence, finding a balance in power dynamics, dealing with time constraints,...

A handmade data object designed by three members of Starschema’s Data Visualization team; created purely for experimentation and outside work hours. The project was originally submitted to the Dear...

This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...

Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...

In June 2013 the scale of government mass surveillance of agencies, like NSA and GCHQ, were leaked by Edward Snowden. This project intends to raise awareness by designing a fictional monitoring...

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FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.

We plotted every country’s national record in the 100-metre dash. Hit “start the race” to find out where each country’s fastest sprinter is when Usain Bolt — the fastest man ever — reaches the...

This story aims to show and tell a visual story of the widening gap between men and women in Sweden in their political preferences and identification as left- and right-wing. I wrote this...

50 YEARS OF THE GERMAN SOCCER LEAGUE: The graphic shows all end-of-season placings from 1963 to 2013. By the way it's a homage to the well know record cover "Unknown Pleasures" from Joy Division.

Style, skills, power, character, charisma. The noble art is much more than a bunch of numbers, but what does data tell us?

This colorful graph shows when and where the oceans' surface temperatures have seen warm and cold spells in the last 10 years. Mind you that temperature, latitude, longitude and time add up to...

Flags of Inequality is a work that would not exist if there was full legislative equality for the LGBTQ+ communities in 49 European countries. This work is based on ILGA Europe's Rainbow Index, a...

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. 8.3 billion devices around the world automating our lives with the ease of AI. But, few understand how these systems work. That’s why we created the Watson...

Incisive analysis and opinion around data visualization techniques, plus tutorials from the renowned University of Miami Knight Chair of Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo. @albertocairo

The design thinking project on "staying up late" identified a need for a broader perspective. Both system thinking & design thinking goes hand in hand. To achieve a more holistic understanding,...

This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...

From 1973 to 2015, my grandfather notes down all his bicycle rides in a diary. My aim is to give an overview of and insight in the biking history of my grandfather and the places he visited. The...

The findings, while limited, point in one direction: Gun control can save lives.

This interactive visualization shows the inter-office romances of different characters across all seasons of the hit T.V. show, The Office, the length of the relationship, and when the romance...

AirQ visualizes near real-time data and historical data of concentration on particulate matter less than 2.5 microns (PM 2.5) in diameter in the air. The portal allows users to spot global...

Comparative analysis between the number of smokers and total population of the european union member states. The indicator is defined as the number of current tobacco smokers among the population,...

w̶o̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ is a physical installation where a visualization is projected over a bowl of water. The visualization animates through four years of my photos, with each dot representing a photo...