In 2015, I published The Shanghai Soup Dumpling Index, a completely real and totally useless scientific survey of 52 soup dumpling restaurants in Shanghai. Its utility has expired but it lives on as a data visualization project and can be purchased (cheaply) here.

In 2024, friends and I published The Shanghai Wet Market Index, a completely real and totally useful survey of a single market’s inventory over the course of three years. The data was the basis for a mechanical painting and printed package and can be purchased on Taobao. A digital-only package can be purchased here.