Over the last few hundred years, maps have divided territory into political administrative units (countries, states, etc.). Newer spatial realities, however, are driven by the flow or inhibition of...

For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...

Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize winning musical created by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. I first heard this musical in 2009 and was instantly hooked. The story is about the Goodman family, a family...

​​The first chart shows the age and gender distribution of shooters in the United States from 1999 to 2022. The radial line graph shows the differences in mental disorders according to gender,...

Dimensionality reduction is a powerful technique used by data scientists to look for hidden structure, producing visualizations that reveal patterns and clusters in data. Even though the data is...

Everybody know Van Gogh and colour yellow are intrinsically related. But, to what extent? Please note that the paintings are created pixel by pixel! Besides, each sunflower is a year and, each...

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...

'50 Years of Ways of Seeing' is a data narrative about the impact of John Berger's seminal book Ways of Seeing (1972). I have incorporated multiple data sets into the two A1 posters, to show how...

A ten step map to survive in the jungle of self-publishing.

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...

Romancing the American West is designed to survey the Western film and television genre, and to test a hypothesis set forth by Robert McKee is his book, Story. Robert McKee describes a...

Maternal mortality rates world wide have been dropping, but in the United States they've been rising. After the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v Jackson, many states are denying access to abortions...

Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics. There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It...

US and allied naval deployment in the Eastern Mediterranean off Syria's coastline. You can navigate all over the graphic in two zoom level. A general level, with information about US and allied,...

The issue of segregation of immigrants has generated a lot of interest in many Western countries, not least in Sweden in the run up to the 2018 elections. In the midst of many alarmist stories...

Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...

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...

100 Years of Rock is an ambitious visualisation that displays a century’s worth of musical history. Lasting 33 seconds, the automated scrolling animation leads you through the many evolving genres...

This piece is my re-envisioning of how we visualise humanitarian disasters like COVID-19. Given the rapidly growing nature of India's outbreak, I decided to draw attention to both its magnitude and...

Population ageing, driven by rising life expectancy, is a problem in all developed countries. Our interactive visualisation enables users to sort countries by life expectancy (purple circles). But...

Are U.S. territories and the District getting a fair deal?

Since December, our model has taken in all published constituency-level polls, UK-wide polls and polling conducted in the nations, and projected the result in each of the 650 Westminster...

Timescapes is a series of photographs and videos that document the patterns and algorithms that define places. This project uses "slit-scanning," wherein a photo medium is exposed in a single...

Unmask My City is a global air pollution and health initiative engaging doctors and health professionals in actions to improve urban air quality. Shot in 10 cities in 7 countries, each place was...

An examination of the gun killings in the United States.

Urban trees matter to everyone, but especial children. This visualization looks at the American Forest's Tree Equity Score data set for Los Angeles through the lens of kids and their...

The fizzi.io team has worked for two years to take investors to the next level, by bringing financial markets to life with 3D animation in the browser. The results are in now and our app is able...

“Discrimination Is Breaking People’s Hearts” was part of a special package of articles highlighting problems and solutions in health equity. The Scientific American editorial team quickly...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...