In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...
Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...
The second debate on Wednesday night was a three-hour affair, where Donald Trump dominated the conversation – a repeat performance of the first debate. Of words spoken by the 11 candidates, 15...
Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works.
I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My...
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.
It's evening rush hour near MacArthur Park, and the streets teem with activity.
Crowds pack the crosswalks, weaving around cars that nose through to make right turns. Men pull food carts and...
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...
Since 2008 I create network visualizations to better understand how communities work. In this article I take a look at how verified Twitter users are connected and who they are.
How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...
This infographic is an attempt to present Boston subway information to help people in Boston better understand the trains, how people use the trains, and how the people and trains interact with...
In May, the WSJ illustrated the differences in song preferences in New York by using data from e-jukeboxes.
But what if we were to zoom that lens onto the rest of the country?
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Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...
What to study in Costa Rica? Would it be worth investing in that career? Are there openings in that field in local market? How much can you earn at companies in that country? Are there many people...
Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally.
There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...
The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...
Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...
The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...
In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.
The joys of the airport: Late or canceled flights. Long lines. Crowded terminals. Overpriced, appalling food. Bloomberg Businessweek surveyed more than 3,000 frequent flyers, analyzed travel...
The US government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project blundered ahead ignoring history, culture and warnings of...
A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...
Why hasn’t wealth inequality improved over the past 50 years? And why, in particular, has the racial wealth gap not closed? These nine charts illustrate how income inequality, earnings gaps,...