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Twenty — minutes — maybe — more. • Naomi • [choose four words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szDdM2ETAs) • [more quotes](/quotes) In your hiding, you're alone. Kept your treasures with my bones. • Coeur de Pirate • [crawl somewhere better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFDDJaUF0YE&list=PLXaL0ddraQuaKxuEveaHoQwUTht1KlrCK) • [more quotes](/quotes) What do the trees know. • Laleh • [sway, sway, sway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETqwqYtYVU) • [more quotes](/quotes) Trance opera—Spente le Stelle • [be dramatic](http://bit.ly/g0IoX2) • [more quotes](/quotes) And she looks like the moon. So close and yet, so far. • Future Islands • [aim high](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9YtRnlPMk) • [more quotes](/quotes) Sun is on my face ...a beautiful day without you. • Royskopp • [be apart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1IYrUzEAQo) • [more quotes](/quotes) And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. • Wislawa Szymborska • [don't rehearse](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/02/amanda-palmer-reads-wislawa-szymborska/) • [more quotes](/quotes) Drive, driven. Gave, given. • Yello • [Give me a number of games.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPnjpEAOfDw) • [more quotes](/quotes) syncopation & accordion • Cafe de Flore (Doctor Rockit) • [like France, but no dog poop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrsGpFewWo) • [more quotes](/quotes) I'm not real and I deny I won't heal unless I cry. • Cocteau Twins • [let it go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yna3wMFi_W4) • [more quotes](/quotes) This love's a nameless dream. • Cocteau Twins • [try to figure it out](http://bit.ly/egQCTy) • [more quotes](/quotes) listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. • e.e. cummings • [go there](http://www.flickr.com/photos/fullaperture/499721638/) • [more quotes](/quotes) Without an after or a when. • Papercut feat. Maiken Sundby • [can you hear the rain?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Si8b5hRAOc) • [more quotes](/quotes) Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes. • Motorcycle • [drift deeper into the sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb61AVsxD34) • [more quotes](/quotes) Love itself became the object of her love. • Jonathan Safran Foer • [count sadnesses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Illuminated) • [more quotes](/quotes) Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing. • Dorothy Parker • [get cranky](http://bit.ly/eUhIuS) • [more quotes](/quotes) Safe, fallen down this way, I want to be just what I am. • Cocteau Twins • [safe at last](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Y98fPyvfo) • [more quotes](/quotes) Here we are now at the middle of the fourth large part of this talk. • Pepe Deluxe • [get nowhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KZoG-A51c) • [more quotes](/quotes) Tango is a sad thought that is danced. • Enrique Santos Discépolo • [think & dance](http://bit.ly/gnOl9R) • [more quotes](/quotes) Feel the vibe, feel the terror, feel the pain • Hooverphonic • [Mad about you, orchestrally.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKLw7OXvpAY) • [more quotes](/quotes) This love loves love. It's a strange love, strange love. • Liz Fraser • [find a way to love](http://bit.ly/ek4yro) • [more quotes](/quotes) Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash • Leonard Cohen • [burn something](http://bit.ly/hM1J3y) • [more quotes](/quotes) Where am I supposed to go? Where was I supposed to know? • Violet Indiana • [get lost in questions](url://bit.ly/gsDhMY) • [more quotes](/quotes) Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange. • Holly Golightly & The Greenhornes • [break flowers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfhSqcn5K2Y) • [more quotes](/quotes) music + dance + projected visuals • Nosaj Thing • [marvel at perfect timing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woNBiIyOKI) • [more quotes](/quotes)
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I present clearly, connect broadly, spark imagination and encourage enthusiasm for inquiry and explanation. I create visuals with analytical clarity and artistic dimensions.
In 1999 I built the [Genome Sciences Centre's](https://bcgsc.ca) first [computing systems](https://linuxjournal.com/article/6977), and later invented [port knocking](https://linuxjournal.com/article/6811), and [optimized keyboard layouts](/carpalx) that spawned a [Brazilian fashion line](https://fashionnotebook.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/julia-valle-tnwmlc/). I have an affinity for [parody](/fun/dummer) and [tragedy](/outbreak). I love [rabbit holes](/google-maps-challenge/).
I created [Circos](https://circos.ca) (a community standard) and [hive plots](https://hiveplot.com) (a farewell to hairballs). I am triggered by [slipshod visualizations of science](/jurassic.world) and [pie charts](/pie-charts/).
My information graphics have appeared in the [New York Times](/nyt/nyt-mapping-the-epigenome.png), [Wired](/wired/circos-wired-spread.jpg), and on [covers of books and scientific journals](/covers) such as [Science](/covers/#science), [Nature](/covers/#nature2022) and [PNAS](/pnas).
I am a co-author of the Nature Methods [Points of Significance](/points-of-significance) and [Points of View](/points-of-view) columns. I contribute to [Scientific American's Graphic Science](/scientific-american-graphic-science) and teach how to [design scientific figures](/graphical-abstract-design) and [scientific posters](/poster-design). My method is [critique by redesign](/the-covid-charts).
I’ve made [maps of nothing](/universe-superclusters-and-voids), shot [fashion photography](https://lumondo.com/), [found poems in spam](/eespammings/). Every year I make [Pi Day art](/pi/piday.mhtml), which can be [graphics](/pi/piday2017), [words](/pi/piday2020) or [music](/pi/piday2022). I've made music videos about [infinity](/infinity) and [higher dimensions](/max-cooper-ascent), I love [typography](/typography) and run [Hitchmas](https://hitchmas.com).
I am a former owner of [Alex, the world’s most popular rat](/raton3700/).
contact
Martin Krzywinski
Staff Scientist
[Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center](https://www.bcgsc.ca)
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main activities
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Circos
[](/deadlygenomes)
Deadly genomes
[](/scientific-american-graphic-science)
Graphic Science
[](https://www.hiveplot.com)
Hive plots
[](/covers)
Journal covers
[](/points-of-significance)
Nature Methods Points of Significance
[](/points-of-view)
Nature Methods Points of View
[](/pi/piday.mhtml)
Pi Day
[](/typography/)
Typography
[Three one four: a number of notes](/pi/piday2022) [PNAS Cover: Earth BioGenome Project](/pnas.biogenome.cover/index.mhtml) [Science Cover: Human genome — a research ultramarathon](/science.magazine.cover) [Deadly Genome Series: The variants of SARS-Cov-2](/deadlygenomes/?sars-cov-2) [Scientific graphical abstracts — design guidelines](/graphical.abstract.design) [Scientific posters — design guidelines](/poster.design) [The Outbreak Poems — artistic emissions in a pandemic](/outbreak) [Nature Cancer cover of Mutation spectra](/nature.cancer.cover) [2020 π day art and the piku](/pi/piday2020) [The deadly genomes — run away!](/deadlygenomes) [Second infinity ℵ2 and beyond — music and mathematics](/infinity) [DNA on 10th — street art, wayfinding and font](/dnaon10th) [The tree of emotional life — phylogenetics of emoticons](/tree.of.emotional.life) [The largest map of absolutely nothing: Universe — voids and superclusters](/universe-superclusters-and-voids) [Pixels in space — Ultra-high resolution maps of the Moon, Solary System and Sky](/1bit) [Nature Methods Points of View visualization column](/pointsofview) [Nature Methods Points of Significance statistics column](/pointsofsignificance)
journal covers
[](/covers/#cellgenomics2023)
Cover of Cell Genomics 2023
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Cover of Science Advances 2023
[](/covers/#nature2022)
Cover of Nature 2022
[](/covers/#cellcancer2022)
Cover of Cancer Cell 2022
[](/pnas-biogenome-cover)
Cover of PNAS 2022
[](/covers/#annalsofoncology2022)
Cover of Annals of Oncology 2022
[](/covers/#naturebiotechnology2022)
Cover of Nature Biotechnology 2022
[](/covers/#science)
Cover of Science 2021
[](/covers/#nature_genetics)
Cover of Nature Genetics 2020
[](/nature.cancer.cover)
Cover of Nature Cancer 2020
[](/covers/#molecular_case_studies)
Cover of Molecular Case Studies 2018
[](/covers/#nature2017)
Cover of Nature 2017
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Cover of PNAS 2012
[](/covers/#trends_in_genetics)
Cover of Trends in Genetics 2012
[](/covers/#genome_research)
Cover of Genome Research 2012
[](/cover-genome-informatics-2010)
Cover of Genome Informatics 2010
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Cover contest for EMBO journal
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Cover of EMBO Journal 2009
[](/covers/#american_scientist)
Cover of American Scientist 2007
Pi Day Art
[](/pi/piday2025)
2025 Pi Day — TTCAGT: a sequence of digits
[](/pi/piday2024)
2024 Pi Day — Digit Garden
[](/pi/piday2023)
2023 Pi Day — Repeated Sequence
[](/pi/piday2022)
2022 Pi Day — three one four: a number of notes
[](/pi/piday2021#l1home)
2021 Pi Day - Forest of Digits
[](/pi/piday2020#l1home)
2020 Pi Day — Piku
[](/pi/piday2019#l1home)
2019 Pi Day — Languages
[](/pi/tauday.mhtml)
2018 Tau Day
[](/pi/piday2018#l1home)
2018 Pi Day — Bringing the world together
[](/pi/piday2017#l1home)
2017 Pi Day — Pi in the sky
[](/pi/piday2016#l1home)
2016 Pi Day — Gravity of Pi
[](/pi/piday2015#l1home)
2015 Pi Day — Transcendental map
[](/pi/piday2014#l1home)
2014 Pi Day — Frequency circles
[](/pi/piday2013#l1home)
2013 Pi Day — It stars here
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other activities
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16 and's — typographical peep show
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5 years of personalized cancer care
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Adobe swatches for Brewer palettes
[](/raton3700/)
Alex — Internet's most popular rat
[](/asciiart)
ASCII art
[](/typography/birdsongs.mhtml)
Bird song mnemonics
[](/carpalx)
CARPALX - keyboard layouts and Brazilian fashion
[](/tableviewer)
Circos online tableviewer
[](/colorsummarizer)
Color proportions in your image
[](/color)
Color resources
[](/the-covid-charts)
The COVID charts
[](/jurassic.world)
Dinosaurs of the corn - fixing visualizations
[](/dnaon10th)
DNA on 10th wayfinding
[](/dummer)
Dummer — a Hummer parody
[](/fun/eespammings/)
e.e. spammings
[](/essentials.of.data.visualization)
Essentials of Data Visualization — 8-part video series
[](/typography/eyecharts.mhtml)
Eye charts — a modern interpretation
[](/flunk-down-here-moon-above)
Flunk — Down Here / Moon Above — Music for space
[](/freethedata)
Free the Data
[](/gene.machines)
Gene Machines — Vinyl sounds from the lab
[](/agbt2017)
Genomics 3D art exhibit
[](/1bit)
Gigapixel 1-bit Moon, Solar System & Sky
[](/google-maps-challenge/)
Google maps longest routes
[](/graphical-abstract-design)
Graphical abstract design
[](/hdtr)
High dynamic time range photography
[](/hilbert)
Hilbert curves and Hilbertonians
[](/telomere-to-telomere-human-genome-assembly/)
History of the human genome assembly
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Hitchmas
[](/hitchsum)
Hitchsum — Hitchens ipsum
[](/fun/globe/)
Languages on the globe
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LOTRO — Warden gambit chart
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Lumondo photography
[](/infinity)
Max Cooper — Aleph 2 — Music for minds
[](/max-cooper-ascent)
Max Cooper — Ascent — Music for dimensions
[](/mit-museum-genome-exhibit/)
MIT Museum genome exhibit
[](/obesity)
Obesity — a data story
[](/outbreak/index.mhtml#l0home)
The Outbreak Poems
[](/books/sapj/tpj)
Perl Journal archives
[](/poster-design)
Poster design guidelines
[](/country.flags)
Proportions of colors in country flags
[](/ptolemaic-clock)
Ptolemaic clock
[](/quotes)
Quotes archive
[](/deadlygenomes/?sars-cov-2)
SARS-CoV-2 visualizations of 56 genomes
[](/schemaball)
Schemaball — database schema visualization
[](/scientific.american.graphic.science)
Scientific American Graphic Science
[](/snellen-optotype-font)
Snellen optotype font
[](/snowflakes)
snowflake catalogue — _in silico_ flurries
[](/tripsum)
Tripsum — Trump ipsum
[](/fun/ubcrocket)
UBC rocket contest
[](/universe-superclusters-and-voids)
Universe — superclusters and voids
[](/unwords)
Unwords — what's missing in the English language
[](/typography/birdsongs.mhtml)
Visions of type — type peep show
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Weightlifting socks - 178.75 lb
[](/debates2020)
Word analysis of 2008–2020 U.S. Presidential Debates
[](/topquestions/)
World's most popular questions
[](/writing)
Writing
[](/yesorno)
Yes or No
[](/zaomm)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance quotes
me as a keyword list
aikido | analogies | animals | astronomy | comfortable silence | cosmology | dorothy parker | drumming | espresso | fundamental forces | good kerning | graphic design | humanism | humour | jean michel jarre | kayaking | latin | little fluffy clouds | lord of the rings | mathematics | negative space | nuance | perceptual color palettes | philosophy of science | photography | physical constants | physics | poetry | pon farr | reason | rhythm | richard feynman | science | secularism | swing | symmetry and its breaking | technology | things that make me go hmmm | typography | unix | victoria arduino | wine | words
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