The measurements of "success" in networked social media do not render visible the actual importance of #MeToo or the broader phenomenon of structural sexual violence. In crucial ways, the structure...

An exploration of search patterns during election years. More information: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/waves-of-interest

Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data...

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...

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...

This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...

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,...

This interactive article presents a so-called “explorable explainer” of the k-means clustering algorithm. It attempts to push the envelope of how visual explanations can be designed on an...

The project is simultaneously a celebration of Hong Kong women artists, represented as powerful, majestic mountains rising above the mist, as well as a reminder of their under-representation on...

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...

The fear of an “unknown” illness without a definitive cure creates uncertainty, leading to anxiety and increased sharing of misinformation. Thus any senseless forward of a message, meme or video...

Water stress or scarcity does always need to be reflected in context. While some parts of the world are only sparsely populated, the impact and mitigation of water stress in densely populated areas...

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...

CONTEXT In 2020, the pandemic brought the world to a complete standstill. Our reality was limited to the 4 or 5 walls of our house. Our homes became our whole world. On the other hand, media...

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,...

Storylanding dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 'Kursk' submarine disater unveiling an unofficial version of the tragedy. According to the official version, the sailors’ deaths were accidental,...

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...

An illustrated and animated graphics story on how the movement to recognises a spectrum of genders is changing languages around the world.

2021 was the year when we created our first ever greeting card, taking the form of a retrospective of our work. This project was made possible by one of the most visible aspects of the company's...

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...

We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings. We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...

Pagodas were introduced to China with Buddhism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. They have changed significantly in form, structure, material, layout, and function over a long...

Metroverse is an urban economy navigator built at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. It is based on over a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify and offers a detailed look into...

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...

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

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 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...

A visual representation of the demographic, economic and political power of each generation in Romania, along with the opportunities and challenges they encountered in their lifetimes regarding...

FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...