When a company or government agency suffers a data breach, the number of records they say were lost are often preliminary estimates, whether they say so or not. Typically, the investigation has...
This project visualizes the boat traffic in Amsterdam's canals, with actual data. It explores the different types of vessels in the water and their speeds, and watch the traffic ebb and flow as the...
In August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo regarding public access to federally funded research articles. This website hosts interactive versions...
This visualisation shows the railway lines of Germany. The visualisation is created using the free and open-source R statistical computing language, which makes it accessible and reproducible.
This visual shows all the stars that we’ve discovered within 20 light years from our Solar system, and the exoplanets belonging to 12 of those stars. When comparing the types of stars, it becomes...
This project is an infographic illustrating all 276 women who won gold medals at the London Olympics. While watching the London Olympics, Wendy Fox was fascinated by the vast variety in body...
Much of our Universe is too distant for anyone to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to understand what objects in our Universe are like in different types of...
What do Uber, Blue Apron, Classpass, Deliveroo, and Ticketmaster all have in common? They are all apart of the On-Demand Ecosystem --a model built on instant gratification. Since 1976, 673...
In the race to put self-driving vehicles on the street by 2021, major automakers and suppliers are partnering with, investing in and acquiring smaller component makers and technology start-ups
The Directory – Mapping Sexuality in India – is a compendium of the names of institutions, organisations, publications, audio-visual material, digital outlets, and events in the broad sphere of...
Transit isochrone maps are incredibly pretty and tell us lots of things about the cities we live in. They show the area that is reachable within X minutes from an origin. I decided to animate...
The U.S. experienced the unthinkable loss of one million people from COVID-19 in May of 2022. Using CDC data, this visualization displays the peaks and valleys of death rates in each U.S. state...
Tech blogs. They don't agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. If there's...
A 2018 study found that listening to birdsong can boost mental well-being for more than four hours.
This project, intended for sharing on social media, aims to encourage people to engage with...
What will really increase your average life expectancy and lifespan? Why do women live longer than men? What’s the best method of life extension? Diet and exercise? Or polygamy and pets? Let the...
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...
Traditional "year in charts" retrospectives usually consist of rehashed newsroom graphics from the year gone. This project takes a fundamentally different approach.
Instead of revisiting the key...
Brood X is known as "The Great Eastern Brood" and is the largest of all the Cicada broods. They appear every 17 years in the Eastern United States. This visualization explores these curious...
China’s demand for a traditional medicine known as e-jiao is fueling the slaughter of millions of donkeys every year, according to animal welfare groups and veterinary experts.
E-jiao, which is...
Explore how Harlequins pulled off one of the greatest comeback in English Rugby Union play-off history. 28 points down after 30 minutes, all looked lost.....
The U.S. has a long history of droughts that have impacted humans and ecosystems. But in the last 100 years, five periods of drought stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and...
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war" -- Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example -- we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with...
Venezuela's fortunes rise and fall with the price of oil, and when crude prices tanked in 2014, its economy was thrown into chaos. A government that had relied on oil revenues to fund social...
Isreali-Palestine conflict has been ongoing since mid 20th century. Israeli–Palestinian conflict commenced on 10 May 2021, in which civilians and minors bear the brunt. It reminded the world to...
As large amounts of genealogical data made open, people could trace back their family roots. Our data source is the China Biographical Database of Harvard University.
We further explored the...