This story aims to focus on miners, rather than the precious gems they dig from the earth – exploring the complexities and exploitation in the mining industry in parts of Asia. We decided to...

On April 8th 2024 parts of the United States experienced a total eclipse. This occurs where the moon crosses the path of the sun, blocking the sun on earth for a short while. The shadow created by...

China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...

"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...

There are many ways to think about the future - but some are more productive than others. Horoscopes, prophecies and ancient dream interpretations, for instance, are not exactly useful: whereas...

This interactive visualisation shows the gap between men and women around the world. @riblah

When There Are 100 is a patchwork quilt visualizing every person who served in the US Senate since it first convened in 1789. Each person is represented by a 1” wide strip, cut to the length of...

The visualisation was created to highlight the social impact building up to Kate Middleton's and Prince Williams Royal wedding. The visualisations have a simple, clean and clear style that use...

Across the relationship that exists between the brain and human emotions, there is a spectrum that goes beyond the tangible; To explore it, we present this project with the aim of breaking down the...

This data visualisation is a re-imagining of Minard's graph on the French invasion of Russia in 1812. This campaign marked a turning point in Napoleon's reign. Nearly a million men died, equally...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, but until recently, the characters it depicts on screen did not reflect the diversity right outside our...

Worthwhile is an app concept that promotes the act of inspiring and being inspired. Users can upload their creations and link them to other posts that helped inspire their own. The name...

Infographics show median voting scores, representing participants tastes since 1994 till 2013. Outcome flow shows voting statistics, how one country participant voted for another, while income flow...

Data design created with the seven highest summits of each continent - Everest, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Mc Kinley, Elbrus, Massif Vinson and Puncak Jaya - stretched between 4,884 m and 8,848 m....

A comprehensive visualization about wealth distribution around the world. While 10% of the world population own about 85% of the global wealth, the poorest 50% get just 1% of it. The visualization...

Beyond the most popular Chinatowns of major cities, including those of Manhattan, New York and San Francisco, California, the United States once contained over fifty self-described Chinatowns in...

A data visualization of how the world can be rearranged to national music preferences identified through Spotify. Spotify currently has 232 million active users a month and hosts over 50 million...

Group information assignment, featuring data from the group survey of 1200 real data points. The main vision in the form of visual chart directly reflects the relationship between visible and...

After following the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in ten years, I got curious about the divergence between the public televote and the juryvote. We had watched the results on our way...

Poverty & Conflict In the 10 poorest countries of Africa The Project started as an independent initiative to visualize information to convey a specific narrative for the D'source SDG...

This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...

We commemorate 150th anniversary of the unification of Buda, Pest and Óbuda into Budapest with a series of 50 alternative maps, mainly produced from open source or publicly available data. The maps...

Every day we use social media to share with the world everything from the inane to our innermost thoughts. But could this digital footprint be misinterpreted as something more sinister? Can the use...

To investigate the threat from wildfire to communities across the West, The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY carried out a level of analysis usually reserved for academics and scientists. We analyzed...

How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results. The advent of...

Widow fountains, also known as green dragons, are iconic fixtures in Milan, Italy. Since 1931, the Lamperti foundries have produced and maintained these distinctive fountains. Standing at 1.55...

Wikipedia Worldview is a web app to project Wikipedia georeferences onto a 2d plane depending on language choices. The resulting picture of our earth can be interpreted as a worldview formed by...

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

Palm oil production has been an important driver for the deforestation of the rainforests. But replacing the controversial raw material is difficult. If we weren’t meeting global oil demand through...

Nearly 27% of the Netherlands is below sea level with a vast network of polders and dykes keeping the North Sea at bay. Where the cyan and magenta shapes meet it reveals this immense area of land...