📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” 🐤 A #dataviz article & exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

After several months of analysis, design, drawing, writing, and coding (and a little bit of birdwatching), it turned into a fully dataviz-driven, vibrant, whimsical and fun interactive story for birders and anybody even remotely interested in birds 🦉

Full of custom, interactive visuals (a giant nest, a giant egg, the US made up of eggs!) to explore people’s experience with birds. It’s full of insights, funny outliers and visuals you can lose yourself in trying to explore all that the vast amount of bird data has to offer.

If you enjoy data, visuals, photos of adorable birds or just neat internet things, please check it out, and please share it onward if you enjoyed it! 🐦 (as I'm self-publishing this I could really _really_ use your help to spread the word, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏)

I want to give a big, big thank you to Emily Barone for her enormous help in finding the story within the mountain of data and plots I buried myself in at the start of this project and writing a fantastic story 🙌

And another big thank you to Simon Rogers and Alberto Cairo for their unwavering support and enthusiasm and making it possible for Google Trends to sponsor this piece 🙏

This project is absolutely magical, Nadieh! 🐦 The nest chart, egg-states map, and all those whimsical details are next-level creative. Huge congrats on pouring so much heart (and code) into this. Everyone who loves birds, data, or just beautiful internet things needs to see it!

Thank you for those lovely compliments! ^^

Wonderful! It reminded me a lot of the one we did at @ladatamx years ago... great job!

This is the most beautiful site I’ve seen in a long, long time. Magnificent work.

Thanks! :D

My goodness this is just splendid

Incredible work. Thank you for making this!

I was an information science major in college, and one of the most interesting guest speakers we had explained library search behaviors to us, which is surprisingly nuanced if you think about it I love this kind of research :)

This is so so cool!

@WilburZhang

This is just the coolest. 👏

This is beautiful 👌🏽

This site is absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous. Obviously made with love. Huge congrats on this! 👏🏻 🦅

whoa didn't see that coming love this detail 🤩

@RebeccaSlatkin Art style is very reminiscent of @klemensstrasser’s Art of Fauna

@CatAstro_Piyush @Petucato

Gorgeous work! Shared with my birding friends

So beautiful

gorgeous!

My kids absolutely loves birds, and would love this viz. Thanks for doing this, can't wait to show him.

The content we all need; absolutely stunning! Congrats!

I love how at 0:25 that Blue Jay appears on the left with that expression of intense gaze... :)

Dont know much about birds but this is very good. Got to know many new things and the UI, designs, animations everything is so refreshing and unique

Has anyone tagged @courtneyellis yet?? This is amazing.

You are so cool and wickedly talented.

Cool, now we need bids of Colombia!

Incredible!! Excellent design and data visualizations 👏🏻

Stunningly amazing. Makes me want to get into birding!

♥️

Anyone who has practiced “birding” knows we rely heavily on the audible sound a species of birds makes to detect, locate, call, and identify birds. Identifying birds by sound is often the only means we have to detect their presence. Any plans to visualize “searching for birds” with audio?

@CharlieBeau come see

have you use already merlinapp? for bird recognition with sounds or pictures

Yes, I've been using it for a few years now, especially the recognition for sounds ^_^

This is so amazing! Days later and I am still going back to this site to look through the data + visuals.

@Av_TorresR

very cool!

@birdsarentreal