Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season.
A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...
Rising Sea Levels: When, Where, and Who?
By 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line. 200 million.
Over the past 15 years, the global mean...
Yaps and fin slaps, growls and groans—whales use a wide range of sounds to communicate. But only five whale species are known to sing, with humpbacks the unrivaled musical masters of the sea. This...
An exploration of the most common searches in Google related to what we dream about. More details: https://medium.com/@frcfr/visualizing-the-shape-of-dreams-for-google-trends-5164c3c4e382
This story is about the most recent restoration of Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece. We received high resolution images of this world’s...
On Sunday June 19th, 2022, the 27-year old Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick became a champion once again at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nine years after he won the U.S. Amateur title...
We analyzed more than 382,000 headlines published between 2008 and 2021 from the top English-language news publications in India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States to see how...
We worked in partnership with Italy–based NGO EMERGENCY to bring to life Afghanistan20: a historical document that utilizes imagery, journalism, and data visualization to portray with empathy the...
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...
The annual number of deaths of children under 5 years of age around the globe decreased from 19.6 million in 1950 to 5.4 million in 2017, a change of nearly 72%! Undoubtedly the decrease in child...
For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...
Luxun Art has contributed his great strength in major historical events. Some of the materials we have found have detailed introductions, while others are just a few words. We believe that there...
Among the many ways COVID-19 reshaped our lives, one of its most enduring effects may be changes to the way we use and move through public spaces. At the height of the pandemic, parks, restaurants,...
FinDev Canada opened in 2018 with the goal of supporting the growth and sustainability of businesses in developing markets. After only two years of operations, they were ready to present their...
The Reuters graphics team built an in-house mathematical model to simulate and explain the spread of Covid-19 and how herd immunity may be reached. This powerful data visualisation shows the impact...
Total War is an illustrated account of the most pivotal historical episode of the 20th century: the Second World War. This authoritative, immersive account of a conflict that forever reshaped the...
It all began with a simple question, “Am I a reader or just another hoarder?”.
During the lockdown when all my belongings came to my house, I realized the number of books I owned. So, I decided...
MLB announced in December 2020 that it would officially designate the Negro Leagues as “major leagues.” This decision adds those players into MLB’s official stats and changes some of the game’s top...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
This data visualization provides insights on the attrition trends in an organization with several breakdowns by department, job role, demographics, and survey scores. The glassmorphism design and...
Every year Novartis, Roche and about 60 other pharmaceutical companies pay a lot of money to doctors and hospitals. Now imagine that this world of pharma money was a universe: what would it look...
Back in the 1970s, activist Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promotion of life in cities: diversity of land use, small block sizes,...
This visual explanation demonstrates how COVID-19 tracing apps can break infection chains and preserve users' privacy. We felt that the public discourse surrounding digital contact tracing lacked a...
This is the first part of a three-part series that comprised a detailed national investigation into police mishandling of sexual assaults reported in Australia. Australia’s sexual assault data is...
Clean water is often thought of as the driver of conflict. In certain situations, water is the victim; in others, it is a tool for cooperation. Yet its largest impact remains in the role it plays...
"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...
Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...