<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Client on Visual Cinnamon</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/tags/client/</link><description>Recent content in Client on Visual Cinnamon</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:12:58 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.visualcinnamon.com/tags/client/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Rays</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/rays/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/rays/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was asked by a private equity firm to create a collection of artworks to &lt;strong&gt;celebrate the history of the company&lt;/strong&gt; using the company&amp;rsquo;s data. The final collection, drawn using millions of tiny dots, consists of a main piece, two specific specializations and a set of five vibrantly colored monochrome versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_mockup.jpg' alt='A framed mockup of the full artwork' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_main.png' alt='The main artwork' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_monochrome_blue.png' alt='The blue monochrome version' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_detail_1.png' alt='A zoom-in on the main artwork' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_version_2.png' alt='A specialization of the underlying dataset' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-half-width-left' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_monochrome_red.png' alt='The red monochrome version' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-half-width-right' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/art/2026/rays/rays_monochrome_turquoise.png' alt='The turquoise monochrome version' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Growing Cities</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/epfl-growing-cities/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/epfl-growing-cities/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In collaboration with the &lt;a href="https://www.epfl.ch/labs/urbes/"&gt;EPFL Laboratory of Urban and Environmental Systems&lt;/a&gt;, I transformed their scientific research on global urban growth into an aesthetic data artwork. By &lt;strong&gt;visualizing how cities like Shanghai and Beijing have evolved over two decades&lt;/strong&gt;, I created an A0-sized piece that brings their findings to a wider audience in a beautiful, art-oriented way. The team aimed to move beyond traditional scientific charts to showcase their research through a more engaging lens. The design ensures that while the end result looks like abstract art at first glance, upon closer inspection, the viewer can clearly discern the underlying urban growth trends and individual city morphology.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Searching for Birds</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/searching-for-birds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/searching-for-birds/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Searching for Birds&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; is an &lt;strong&gt;interactive data storytelling project&lt;/strong&gt; created for &lt;strong&gt;Google Trends&lt;/strong&gt; that transforms millions of search queries into a visually rich exploration of how people connect with birds. Combining Google Trends data with various public datasets, I designed a &lt;strong&gt;fully bespoke visual language of illustrated birds, playful metaphors, and custom interactive charts&lt;/strong&gt; that invite users to explore patterns across nearly 700 species. It blends rigorous analysis, crafted illustration, and thoughtful UX to turn complex data into an engaging, memorable experience for both birders and anybody even remotely interested in birds.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Visualizing Neglect</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/visualizing-neglect/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/visualizing-neglect/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://endfund.org/visualizing-neglect/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Visualizing Neglect&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; is an &lt;strong&gt;interactive data-driven article&lt;/strong&gt; created for the The END Fund, &lt;strong&gt;exploring the global burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)&lt;/strong&gt;. These diseases affect around 1.5 billion people worldwide, many of them children, causing lifelong physical, cognitive, and economic harm. Despite their enormous impact, NTDs remain underfunded and underreported—hence the term neglected. The project’s goal was to transform relatively dry public-health data into an experience that makes the scale of the problem, and the progress toward solving it, both understandable and emotionally resonant.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Wall Artworks for New DNV Office</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/dnv-wall-artwork/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/dnv-wall-artwork/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was contacted through Avison Young Studio Project Services to create &lt;strong&gt;two large wall-filling artworks&lt;/strong&gt; for DNV&amp;rsquo;s new office in Houston, Texas. They wanted to &lt;strong&gt;visually represent part of the data they provide&lt;/strong&gt;, preferably with an energy and maritime focus, &lt;strong&gt;in a captivating way&lt;/strong&gt;. I used two datasets from their &amp;ldquo;Energy Transition Outlook&amp;rdquo; to show the change in energy &lt;em&gt;consumption&lt;/em&gt; between 2000 and 2050, and the projected maritime energy &lt;em&gt;demand&lt;/em&gt; over the same period as a spiral with time flowing outward and the density of certain colors representing the different energy sources.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>EU Data Stories</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/eu-data-stories-2025/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/eu-data-stories-2025/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Publications Office of the European Union asked me to &lt;strong&gt;create the data visualizations to accompany three of their monthly Data Stories&lt;/strong&gt;, creating three relatively straightforward visuals per story. Each story focuses on a different topic relevant to the EU, and the visualizations are designed to be both informative and engaging, helping to communicate key insights from the data. During 2025 I created three stories: the first story &lt;strong&gt;focused on the future&lt;/strong&gt;, looking at the &amp;ldquo;2025–2027 Horizon Europe strategic plan,&amp;rdquo; the second had a whimsical air as it &lt;strong&gt;explored leisure time&lt;/strong&gt; across the EU, and the third took &lt;strong&gt;a deep dive into health&lt;/strong&gt; and well-being statistics. For the first half of 2026, I created two more stories: about &lt;strong&gt;travel patterns in the EU&lt;/strong&gt; and one about the &lt;strong&gt;adoption of AI&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Radius Gap</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/radius-gap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/radius-gap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Scientific American commissioned me to create &lt;strong&gt;a data visualization for an article exploring the &amp;ldquo;radius gap.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; This is a puzzling absence of exoplanets within a specific size range, larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. The goal was to illustrate this phenomenon in a way that was both scientifically accurate and visually compelling. Rather than relying on a traditional scatterplot, I aimed to &lt;strong&gt;design something more engaging while still making the data accessible to readers&lt;/strong&gt;. The final visualization, inspired by sci-fi aesthetics, uses a polar plot with density contour lines to highlight the two distinct populations of exoplanets: Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes. This approach not only made the radius gap apparent but also provided a striking, intuitive way to compare these distant worlds to our own solar system.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Time For CH₄nge Campaign</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/time-for-ch4nge/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/time-for-ch4nge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was commissioned by the &lt;strong&gt;Environmental Defense Fund&lt;/strong&gt; (through Fourtold) to &lt;strong&gt;create a data art hero image&lt;/strong&gt; for their &lt;strong&gt;Time For CH₄nge campaign&lt;/strong&gt;, designed to raise awareness about methane emissions and their impact on climate change. The challenge was to give form to the invisible: methane is a colorless, odorless gas, making its growing presence difficult to perceive. I developed a full &lt;strong&gt;data art system&lt;/strong&gt; and interactive webpage, inviting users to enter their date of birth and &lt;strong&gt;experience how much methane has been added to the atmosphere during their lifetime&lt;/strong&gt;, making the global issue feel personal and immediate.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>GitHub Commit History Timeline</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/orca-github-commits/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/orca-github-commits/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Through the &lt;a href="https://builders.mozilla.org/"&gt;Builders program&lt;/a&gt; (previously MIECO) of Mozilla, I collaborated with Adam Bouhenguel to create &lt;strong&gt;an interactive visualization that shows the entire commit history of a GitHub repository&lt;/strong&gt;. It includes an option to highlight those contributors that have been awarded with ORCA. (The &lt;a href="https://future.mozilla.org/projects/open-retrospective-compensation-agreement/"&gt;Open Retrospective Compensation Agreement (ORCA)&lt;/a&gt;, conceived by Adam, is a simple agreement for businesses to share revenue with the open source contributors who make that revenue possible.) This visual is created to work for any GitHub repository and includes documentation on how to prepare the data and load the visual for other repositories than the default of &lt;em&gt;pdf.js&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Visualizing the Top Contributor Network of Any GitHub Repo</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2025/01/github-top-contributor-network/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2025/01/github-top-contributor-network/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this blog I want to show you the design process that went into creating the &amp;ldquo;Top Contributor Network&amp;rdquo; visual. &lt;strong&gt;Showing the ecosystem and synergy of the other repositories the top contributors of any GitHub repository have worked on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;How it started from a simple network, and became it&amp;rsquo;s own thing. How it involved endless tweaking, and how it then all broke, before growing into its final form.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;You can find &lt;a href="https://nbremer.github.io/ORCA/top-contributor-network/"&gt;the interactive visual here&lt;/a&gt; (ps: it&amp;rsquo;s not really meant for mobile screens) and you can find all of the code and documentation for the visual &lt;a href="https://github.com/nbremer/ORCA/tree/main/top-contributor-network"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The GitHub Top Contributor Network</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/orca-top-contributors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/orca-top-contributors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Through the &lt;a href="https://builders.mozilla.org/"&gt;Builders program&lt;/a&gt; (previously MIECO) of Mozilla, I collaborated with Adam Bouhenguel, to create an elaborate visualization that &lt;strong&gt;shows the top contributors of any GitHub repository&lt;/strong&gt; and especially highlight those that have been awarded with ORCA. The &lt;a href="https://future.mozilla.org/projects/open-retrospective-compensation-agreement/"&gt;Open Retrospective Compensation Agreement (ORCA)&lt;/a&gt;, conceived by Adam, is a simple agreement for businesses to share revenue with the open source contributors who make that revenue possible. The network shows how top contributors to a certain repository are connected to the (other) repositories that they have made commits to, thereby &lt;strong&gt;showing how providing compensation to these contributors could have a ripple effect throughout the open source community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>GDQS Data Art Collection</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/gdqs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/gdqs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This six-piece data art collection, created for the GDQS Country Story Book by Intake, &lt;strong&gt;transforms Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) data from over 80,000 individuals across 23 countries into vibrant visualizations&lt;/strong&gt;. Each artwork symbolizes dietary patterns, using distinct visual elements — like wavy white lines for “Whole Grains” and bold red circles for “Red Meat” — to represent the 25 GDQS food groups. The centerpiece visualizes individuals’ dietary data as colorful rings, where the size and color of each section reflect the variety and quantity of foods consumed during a single day. Additional pieces explore unique themes: animal source foods, vegetables and tubers, sweets and processed foods, whole foods, and fruits, each inspired by familiar forms like lollipops or fruit slices. Inspired by universal experiences like shared meals, &lt;strong&gt;this collection celebrates the richness, diversity, and cultural nuances of global diets&lt;/strong&gt;, offering a visually engaging narrative of dietary data and its impact.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Amsterdam Startup Landscape</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/amsterdam-startup-landscape/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/amsterdam-startup-landscape/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;ACE was preparing for the soft launch of their rebrand to Cæmpus. They tasked me with analyzing data from the past decade (and beyond), during which they supported academic entrepreneurs in starting and growing their companies. My goal was to &lt;strong&gt;identify trends and interesting patterns that could be shared with the audience at the event&lt;/strong&gt;. Additionally, during the event we highlighted the gaps in the existing data, emphasizing the importance of contributions from the community to ensure that future entrepreneurs can benefit from the collective experience.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>GenCoop</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/swissgrid-gencoop/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/swissgrid-gencoop/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swissgrid&lt;/strong&gt;, the national transmission system operator in Switzerland, requested two animation about solar panels that they wanted to use for a specific project. One shows &lt;strong&gt;the immense rise of solar panels over the past 35 years&lt;/strong&gt; since the first was registered in 1988. While the second one reveals &lt;strong&gt;a model of the expected daily energy production of each panel across 2022&lt;/strong&gt; using weather data. The design of each element of the animation, from the map to the line charts has been a highly custom process to create a unique and visually captivating result.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Global Plastics Outlook</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/oecd-global-plastics-outlook/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/oecd-global-plastics-outlook/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2022/06/global-plastics-outlook_f065ef59.html"&gt;Global Plastics Outlook&lt;/a&gt; published by the OECD in June of 2022 I was asked to create 4 of the visualizations. About the &lt;strong&gt;flow of plastics&lt;/strong&gt; in 2019 and how it would grow to 2060, visualizing the leakage into our rivers and oceans of plastic, about the &lt;strong&gt;life cycle analysis of several polymers&lt;/strong&gt;, and the change in GDP for all countries between 2019 and 2060.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/portfolio/2022/oecd/oecd_plastic_flow.png' alt='Plastic Flow figure' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;div class="portfolio__highlight" style='background-color: #08c8e3' &gt;&lt;p&gt;I was asked to tackle the four visuals from the report that the client felt were the most difficult to handle, such as showing a flow while also being able to compare two years.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Small World of Words</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/small-world-of-words/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/small-world-of-words/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://smallworldofwords.org/en/project"&gt;Small World of Words&lt;/a&gt; project had celebrated its 10-year anniversary and wanted to create a poster about the data it collected during this time to celebrate. This research project, led by Simon de Deyne, &lt;strong&gt;looks at how people associate words&lt;/strong&gt;, asking for the first words that come to mind when presented by a specific word, such as &amp;ldquo;apple&amp;rdquo;. The client prepared a script to turn their dataset into a network after which I took over to create the visual design; usage of colors, incorporating extra variables, fonts, layout, legends, etc. I created two versions; a &lt;strong&gt;big square poster of 70x70cm&lt;/strong&gt; that was able to show 3,200 word labels, and a &lt;strong&gt;smaller poster at A3 size&lt;/strong&gt; having 1,100 of the circles labeled with the word they represent.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Patchwork Kingdoms</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/patchwork-kingdoms/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/art/patchwork-kingdoms/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Patchwork Kingdoms&amp;rdquo; is a data &amp;amp; generative art charity collection that I created for the &lt;a href="https://giga.global/"&gt;Giga Connect&lt;/a&gt; project of UNICEF. All proceeds from the sale went to this project, which &lt;strong&gt;aims to connect all of the schools in the world to the internet&lt;/strong&gt;. The Giga project has a dataset of 1 million schools and for ±280,000 of those they know if those schools are connected to the internet. I took this data about the schools, split it into 1000 subsets, and &lt;strong&gt;turned each school into a tiny square&lt;/strong&gt;. All the squares together build up into two separate kingdoms, where those in the upright kingdoms are schools that are already connected to the internet, while those in the hidden / upside down kingdoms are not. &lt;strong&gt;Each of the 1000 pieces is thereby showing the &amp;ldquo;digital divide&amp;rdquo; that still exists in our world&lt;/strong&gt;, and the funds from this sale will help to bring more schools from the hidden to the upright kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Patchwork Kingdoms</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/collection/patchwork-kingdoms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/collection/patchwork-kingdoms/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.patchwork-kingdoms.com/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Patchwork Kingdoms&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; is a data + generative art project, a charity NFT collection, that I &lt;strong&gt;created for UNICEF&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="https://gigaconnect.org/"&gt;Giga project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Giga aims to connect all schools in the world to the internet. They have a &lt;a href="https://projectconnect.unicef.org/map/countries"&gt;large database&lt;/a&gt; with information about schools, specifically if the school is connected to the internet or not. I used this data, on 283,000 schools, to create an algorithm that spread the schools out over 1000 tiny kingdoms, turning each school into a little square, while using both randomness and other aspects of the data to guide the visual appearance.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Landscape of Power Flows</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/landscape-of-power-flows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/landscape-of-power-flows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swissgrid&lt;/strong&gt;, the national transmission system operator in Switzerland, reached out to me because they wanted to &lt;strong&gt;explore an artistic way to visualize the data that is generated in their extra-high-voltage network of electrical grids&lt;/strong&gt;. With over 60 million datapoints from the year 2019 it was quite a challenge to find the right balance of aggregating values while still showing as much detail as possible. The final result, called &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Landscape of Power Flows&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;, became a &lt;strong&gt;giant work of 2m x 2.7m, printed on acrylic glass&lt;/strong&gt;, and is now hanging in the lobby of Swissgrid&amp;rsquo;s main office in Aarau, where guests (and employees) can take in the whole visual, but also slowly explore the many details that reveal themselves the closer you get.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Gravitational Waves</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/gravitational-waves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/gravitational-waves/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;First discovered in 2015, LIGO and Virgo have since detected 50 &lt;strong&gt;gravitational wave&lt;/strong&gt; events. These ripples through space time itself are caused by the &lt;strong&gt;violent collisions of black holes&lt;/strong&gt; (and/or neutron stars) dating back billions of years. To celebrate the release of the 2nd catalog of mergers &lt;em&gt;Science News&lt;/em&gt; asked me to &lt;strong&gt;create an interactive data visualization revealing each event&lt;/strong&gt; together with a companion for their printed magazine. We wanted to &lt;strong&gt;make the interactive part more special than a static visual&lt;/strong&gt;. The final visual includes &lt;strong&gt;sound&lt;/strong&gt; bites for some mergers. Hovering over a merger starts a tiny (physics based) &lt;strong&gt;animation&lt;/strong&gt; of the merger. Clicking on any merger shows a &lt;strong&gt;pop-up modal&lt;/strong&gt; with a lot more detailed information, such as a map of the sky that shows the rough location of where the gravitational waves originated from.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Space Wars</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/space-wars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/space-wars/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;strong&gt;visualization of all the satellites that are still active in space&lt;/strong&gt; for the &amp;ldquo;Space Wars&amp;rdquo; article that was published in the November 2020 edition of Scientific American. By keeping each satellite as a separate circle, but grouping them by the two most important variables, country and orbit, the &lt;strong&gt;visualization reveals a very detailed look into the satellites&lt;/strong&gt;, while not becoming overwhelming to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/portfolio/2020/space-wars/space_wars_spread_rgb.png' alt='The visualization of &amp;#39;Space Wars&amp;#39; showing the overview of all active satellites in space' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/portfolio/2020/space-wars/space_wars_rgb_detail_1.png' alt='A close-up of the visual' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/portfolio/2020/space-wars/space_wars_detail_2.jpg' alt='A close-up of the left page of the Space Wars visual' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;figure class='portfolio__img-full-width' &gt;&#10; &#10; &lt;img src='https://www.visualcinnamon.com/img/portfolio/2020/space-wars/space_wars_detail_3.jpg' alt='A close-up of the satellite circles' loading="lazy"&gt;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;div class="portfolio__highlight" style='background-color: #4832d1' &gt;&lt;p&gt;The art director specifically asked to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; create a visual with circles around the Earth, but to convey &amp;ldquo;the state of things&amp;rdquo;, with a specific focus on the country that owned each satellite, what orbit they occupied, and its class (&lt;em&gt;business&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;defense&lt;/em&gt;, etc). The dataset contained many more interesting variables however, such as launch date, usage category, mass, which I also wanted to convey. I therefore kept each satellite represented as a circle, giving me the opportunity to style each satellite very specifically, such as making it more transparent if it was older and sizing it by its mass. I then created a treemap like clustering of these satellites into a &amp;ldquo;grid&amp;rdquo; showing country versus orbit, to highlight those two variables most clearly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re-imagining music’s ‘Gold Record’ with Data Art</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sony-music-data-art/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sony-music-data-art/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sony Music reached out to collaborate on creating a &lt;strong&gt;data-driven re-imagination of the &amp;lsquo;gold record&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt;, the record certifications plaques that celebrate milestones in the journey of a song or album. Using &lt;strong&gt;data from the music itself and from Spotify and Youtube&lt;/strong&gt;, such as the streams, playlists and chart positions, I created a data art system that creates a unique poster that shows the &amp;ldquo;data fingerprint&amp;rdquo; for each song. These posters are meant to be printed at the same size as the original gold records, at 40x50cm. I therefore had a lot of room to add visual details from the elaborate datasets. I aimed for a type of work that should be &lt;strong&gt;placed on a wall&lt;/strong&gt; and every time you walk by, you can read a bit more and &lt;strong&gt;learn something new for weeks and months&lt;/strong&gt;. Something that&amp;rsquo;s worth it to print and frame, that keeps on giving insights the longer you look. Something that you can appreciate visually in an instant, but it takes longer to gain insights (should you even want to).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Data art posters about music (streaming) data for Sony Music</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/06/sony-music-data-art/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/06/sony-music-data-art/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In April, Sony Music Entertainment reached out to me with a really interesting project idea. When a single or album sells more than a certain amount of units they become a &lt;strong&gt;gold&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;platinum record&lt;/strong&gt;. The artist generally receives a framed vinyl or CD. But in these days of data being tracked everywhere and listening to music online, could I &lt;strong&gt;develop a more data art inspired version of a gold record&lt;/strong&gt; using data from the actual streams, charts and the song itself. Well, that sounded like an &lt;em&gt;amazingly fun&lt;/em&gt; project to sink my teeth into so I enthusiastically agreed!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Satellite Surge</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-satellite-surge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-satellite-surge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I created a visualization showing &lt;strong&gt;the rise and recent surge of the number of satellites&lt;/strong&gt; that orbit Earth for the &amp;ldquo;Graphic Science&amp;rdquo; page of the May 2020 issue of the Scientific American. The art director specifically requested a visual that wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be a more typical &amp;ldquo;visual that shows the satellites as dots around the Earth&amp;rdquo; and wanted something more visually bold. I designed a visual that really focuses on showing the numbers and being able to see the sudden rise in the 1-10 kg range for the &amp;ldquo;Lower&amp;rdquo; Low Earth orbit in the bottom right.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hubble's 30-year legacy</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/hubble-30-years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/hubble-30-years/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In celebration of the &lt;strong&gt;Hubble Space Telescope&amp;rsquo;s 30-year anniversary&lt;/strong&gt; in April 2020 I created two static visualizations for Physics Today, to be used in their series of articles on Hubble&amp;rsquo;s history. The main visual became a full poster that &lt;strong&gt;revealed more than 550,000 observations in a map of the sky&lt;/strong&gt;, while highlighting some of the most famous observations and photos. The second visual was created as a companion piece outlining &lt;strong&gt;the different target classifications&lt;/strong&gt; of Hubble&amp;rsquo;s observations. Originally only meant to appear online, the client was so enthusiastic about the main visual that it was adapted and published as a gate-fold in their April issue of the Physics Today magazine as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A sky map of the Hubble Space Telescope's observations</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/04/designing-the-hubble-skymap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/04/designing-the-hubble-skymap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope&amp;rsquo;s 30-year anniversary in April 2020 I created &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20200401a/full/"&gt;an extensive visualization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, more of fully-fledged poster really, &lt;strong&gt;for Physics Today&lt;/strong&gt;. Let me show you how the static visuals that I made still became one of the biggest projects I&amp;rsquo;ve ever worked on in terms of hours invested. I could&amp;rsquo;ve called this blog post &amp;ldquo;the impact of small design choices&amp;rdquo; because the main issue wasn&amp;rsquo;t necessarily &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; type of chart form to use. It was really &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to display the datapoints (Hubble&amp;rsquo;s observations) in the chosen chart form (a map of the sky) to reveal both details and the bigger picture.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Visualizing the different astronomy targets that Hubble has observed</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/04/visualizing-hubble-targets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2020/04/visualizing-hubble-targets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Besides a &lt;a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20200401a/full/"&gt;visualization&lt;/a&gt; that plotted Hubble&amp;rsquo;s observation on a map in the sky, I created &lt;a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20200401b/full/"&gt;another dataviz&lt;/a&gt; for Physics Today to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope&amp;rsquo;s 30 year anniversary in April 2020. &lt;strong&gt;Revealing the types of astronomy targets that Hubble has been looking at&lt;/strong&gt;. In this design blog I&amp;rsquo;ll take you through the design process that led to the final visual.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Fermi Paradox</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-fermi-paradox/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sciam-fermi-paradox/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the main articles in the January 2020 edition of the Scientific American was about &lt;strong&gt;a new simulation that had been performed to address the Fermi Paradox&lt;/strong&gt; (if there are aliens, why haven&amp;rsquo;t we met). Scientific American was looking for a &lt;strong&gt;full spread visualization&lt;/strong&gt; to accompany the article. After reading though the scientific paper and draft of the Scientific American article, I proposed to &lt;strong&gt;visualize the final state of the simulation&lt;/strong&gt;, showing a tiny cube of space. I felt this would reveal the main insight best to a more general audience; that it&amp;rsquo;s perfectly possible for our Milky Way to be settled by alien civilizations, but that our Earth happens to be in a local void, currently unreachable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Highly Hazardous Pesticides</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/highly-hazardous-pesticides/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/highly-hazardous-pesticides/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Unearthed, the journalistic arm of Greenpeace, was doing a large scale investigation together with &lt;a href="https://www.publiceye.ch/en/"&gt;Public Eye&lt;/a&gt;, an NGO from Switzerland, on the &lt;strong&gt;sales of hazardous pesticides by the CropLife companies&lt;/strong&gt;. I was approached by Unearthed to help them create eye-catching visuals to accompany the different conclusions that came out of the investigation. These visuals would be used in the articles both parties were writing. Taking into account the broad scope of audiences, from both a general readership to eventual use by experts, I advised to go for &lt;strong&gt;a set of static visuals, each with a version for desktop and mobile&lt;/strong&gt;, which would be visually distinct and still effective in revealing the underlying insights.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Preferential Polling</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/swayable-preferential-polling/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/swayable-preferential-polling/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Swayable was looking for a way to &lt;strong&gt;visualize the results of their &amp;ldquo;preference polls&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; on people&amp;rsquo;s ranked-choice votes for the (democratic) candidates for the 2020 US elections. They perform a simulated instant-runoff election, eliminating candidates with the least support and distributing the vote of each supporter to their next-preference candidate. I &lt;strong&gt;created two data visualization prototypes&lt;/strong&gt; for them, capable of working with new data (new polls) and have a visually distinct look. Swayable has implemented these in internal environments and client meetings, but have also revealed the visuals in a blog post.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Kantar's MotiveMix</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/kantar-motivemix/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/kantar-motivemix/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Kantar Consulting reached out to me to help them visualize their &lt;strong&gt;MotiveMix&lt;/strong&gt; dataset. This dataset &lt;strong&gt;looks at American consumers along 12 &amp;ldquo;attitudinal dimensions&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;, such as &lt;em&gt;Tech Disposition&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Environmentalism&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cultural Connection&lt;/em&gt;, and more, to better understand what is important to consumers in the counties across the US.&#10;I created two very different pieces for this project. One being a &lt;strong&gt;large static poster&lt;/strong&gt; that looks at each dimension per US state to see which states show interesting behaviors (e.g. different from most other states). The other was &lt;strong&gt;an animation&lt;/strong&gt; that reveals how counties could show very similar values for the attitudinal dimensions, even though they are from completely different parts of the US, thereby transcending the typical geographic proximity that more traditional analysis tend to focus on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Real-World Exploration of the Janssen Product Portfolio</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/janssen-product-portfolio/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/janssen-product-portfolio/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I created a large poster for Janssen that provides an &lt;strong&gt;overview of the ingredients within their product portfolio&lt;/strong&gt;, and the extent to which those ingredients are observed across a network of healthcare data that is available throughout the Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson enterprise. Revealing insights such as seasonality in use, and in which areas of the world the ingredients are taken the most. This poster was created to make the employees of Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson, the mother company of Janssen, aware of the wealth of data that they have at their disposal to do research.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Digital Trackers</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/new-york-times-digital-trackers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/new-york-times-digital-trackers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The New York Times had done a fascinating research on the &lt;strong&gt;insane number of digital trackers that you gather when you browse the web&lt;/strong&gt;, well, anywhere. This resulted in a large dataset of trackers and metadata about what these trackers gathered and from which domain / company they originated. The New York Times reached out to me to help turn this large dataset into an &lt;strong&gt;eye-catching and illustrative visualization that would go in both the printed edition and online&lt;/strong&gt;, revealing just how much information is being gathered on on the web that most of us never know or ever see.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Frontex: EU’s Deportation Machine</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/lighthouse-reports-frontex/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/lighthouse-reports-frontex/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Lighthouse reports was working together with news organizations across Europe to reveal that a massive deportation machine, Frontex, has grown up in Europe in the last decade. Through &amp;ldquo;Freedom of Information&amp;rdquo; requests they had gotten information about each Frontex flight that send deportees back home. They asked me to &lt;strong&gt;create an animation that would reveal the enormous growth of these deportation flights&lt;/strong&gt; in the last few years, and reveal the surge in budgets that Frontex now gets to work with, matching the political appetite for forced returns.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Imaging the entire Earth, every day</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/planet-globe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/planet-globe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Planet’s goal of imaging the entirety of the Earth &lt;em&gt;every day&lt;/em&gt; became achievable with the unprecedented fleet of small satellites, called &amp;ldquo;doves&amp;rdquo;. The &lt;a href="https://nbremer.github.io/planet-globe/"&gt;main visualization&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;showcases one day in the life of these satellites&lt;/strong&gt; and the astounding &lt;strong&gt;600,000&lt;/strong&gt; images captures on that day. Following the main flocks of satellites as white spheres circling the Earth several times a day, and seeing exactly &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; each photo was taken. There is &lt;a href="https://nbremer.github.io/planet-constellations/"&gt;a second section&lt;/a&gt; of the story that focuses on the different fleets that Planet has in orbit, and their imaging resolutions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why Do Cats and Dogs ...?</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/why-do-cats-and-dogs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/why-do-cats-and-dogs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Why do cats &amp;amp; dogs &amp;hellip;?&lt;/strong&gt; the viewer can explore the most popular questions asked on Google that start with &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;why does/are/is my/a cat(s)/dog(s)&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;What do people most want to know about these two pets?&lt;/strong&gt; What &amp;ldquo;strange&amp;rdquo; behavior is asked so often that it appears to actually be quite normal behavior perhaps. What&amp;rsquo;s up with cats and cucumbers, while dogs have a fascination with poop. This dataviz-driven exploration takes you through the most interesting and funny insights found in the data in several highly interactive visuals that work well on both desktop and mobile sizes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Design Process of “Why Do Cats &amp; Dogs ...?”</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2019/04/designing-google-cats-and-dogs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2019/04/designing-google-cats-and-dogs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On April 11th 2019, the &lt;strong&gt;US National Pet day&lt;/strong&gt; I released a &lt;a href="https://whydocatsanddogs.com/"&gt;dataviz driven exploration&lt;/a&gt; in collaboration with &lt;strong&gt;Google Trends&lt;/strong&gt;. It went into the questions that people ask on Google to understand their cats and dogs better. In this blog I&amp;rsquo;ll be taking you through the long and windy design and creation process of the months before the release.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Adyen's Shareholder Report</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/adyen-report-2019/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/adyen-report-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Adyen wanted to feature more then just text and tables in their second ever shareholder letter &amp;amp; annual report and reached out to me to help them. Looking at the data that is presented in the report, I looked at what information would lend itself to be visualized in an interesting and effective manner. This eventually turned into the creation of four more extensive visuals about the income statement, costs, regional and FTE growth.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>alis_ OS</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/alis-os/</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/alis-os/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;alis_ was looking for a way to &lt;strong&gt;visualize the services running&lt;/strong&gt; on their custom &lt;em&gt;alis_ OS&lt;/em&gt;. To reveal if the OS was running well, which tasks were failing. But also to show the dependencies of services having created new services and so on. And to have a clear differentiation between their domains. Finally, the final visual was going to be &lt;strong&gt;used both for management &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; marketing purposes&lt;/strong&gt; and thus had to be really effective, still look good, and on brand. After a longer design phase to investigate what forms revealed the insights, I developed a custom chart for them to implement as a prototype into their systems.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Year in Flights</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/a-year-in-flights/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:11:52 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/a-year-in-flights/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This data art piece conveys &lt;strong&gt;the intricacies of a year&amp;rsquo;s worth of flights performed by Transavia&lt;/strong&gt;, a Dutch airline. Each flight is turned into an abstract shape whose appearance is completely determined by the meta-data of that flight. Together they create a piece that is unique and crafted only from Transavia&amp;rsquo;s own data that &lt;strong&gt;still conveys general trends&lt;/strong&gt; (holidays, destination shifts depending on season, charter flights, etc.), while also having an artistic feel. The final piece, measuring 3m x 1.5m, was placed in Transavia&amp;rsquo;s office to remind employees about the vast amounts of data that they can use in their day-to-day work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the neighbors</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/exoplanet-neighbors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/exoplanet-neighbors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This visual shows all the stars that we&amp;rsquo;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 clear that most are found around M-type stars. That is why projects such as NASA&amp;rsquo;s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has a prioritized list of similar type stars to look for even more exoplanets. The visual appeared in the 2017 December issue of the Scientific American.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bussed out</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/bussed-out/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/bussed-out/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How America moves its homeless&lt;/strong&gt; | Each year, US cities give thousands of homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town. An 18-month nationwide investigation by the Guardian reveals, for the first time, what really happens at journey’s end. There are several data visualizations in this article. Many of which are created in a &lt;em&gt;Scrollytelling&lt;/em&gt; style, where scrolling down the page will trigger animations in the data visualizations. Through these visualizations, video, photography, and of course, text, the article explains the impact of the homeless moving around the US. Both from the perspective of the homeless and the cities that are sending them away.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Freedom of Expression</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/the-freedom-of-expression/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/the-freedom-of-expression/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Article 19&amp;rsquo;s new Expression Agenda (XpA) metric gives a comprehensive picture of the state of freedom of expression and information internationally in 2016. The metric examines 350 aspects of democracy in 172 countries to provide an analysis that captures the challenges and complexity of the freedom expression across the world. By examining freedom of expression through this holistic approach, a far deeper understanding can be achieved of the benefits, risks and global trends that impact on the ability of everyone to raise their voice and be heard, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, race or religion.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating the Scientific American “Baby Spike” visual</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2017/10/creating-baby-births-visual/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2017/10/creating-baby-births-visual/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;strong&gt;Graphic Science&lt;/strong&gt; page of the July edition of &lt;strong&gt;Scientific American&lt;/strong&gt; you could find three large circular charts about when babies are born. In this blog, let me take you along on the data &amp;amp; designs process that me, Zan Armstrong &amp;amp; Jen Christiansen went through to create this piece.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Baby Spike</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/baby-spike/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/baby-spike/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Charts often aggregate across time to simplify the numbers. Instead, for this visual made for Scientific American, the focus has been on visualizing the number of babies born across different time frames; from weeks down to the minute, to reveal the role of scheduling &amp;amp; intervention in births. Nuanced insights about data design, visual form, and graphic design resulted in these unique charts that compare the birth of babies to the average. And people have much more influence than expected!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Beautiful in English</title><link>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/beautiful-in-english/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 09:43:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/beautiful-in-english/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beautiful in English&lt;/strong&gt; let&amp;rsquo;s the viewer dive into the most popular words translated into English through Google Translate. It focuses specifically on nouns and adjectives. From the most translated word being &lt;em&gt;beautiful&lt;/em&gt;, to the most translated word per language, the top 10 per language and finally the similarities between all languages. See which languages seem related through the words they both translate. But also how culture defines unique words, such a &lt;em&gt;gentleman&lt;/em&gt; for the French.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>