A project that visualizes news coverage of murders in Mexico. A Machine Learning algorithm was created and trained to locate, collect, and analyze news stories online. After the data was filtered...

A forensic analysis of newly obtained CCTV footage shows the movements of a suspected suicide bomber in the Sri Lanka attacks. The project explains how the man, with a large backpack, casually...

The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...

More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...

Mass shootings have increased by 57% in the last 3 years compared over the past 6 years. The US had 7 mass shootings in 2019, 12 in 2018 and 11 in 2017. In 3 years there have been a total of 30...

Typically, an investor’s power over a company is proportional to the the amount of money they’ve invested: The more shares you own, the more votes you have to vote for members of the board or on...

Nichelle Smith, an investigations team editor at USA TODAY, recalls attending a lecture at the Library of Congress in early 2018 where she listened to scholars discuss the landing 400 years ago of...

The Butterfly Effect series examines some of the most unlikely chains of cause and effect through history. In February 2018 British fried chicken fans went hungry, as KFC restaurants up and down...

On April 15th, a fire broke out on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Huge gray smoke floated into the sky which was reported by China News on April 16th. “404”represents...

Each winter, a thick blanket of smog settles over vast swathes of northern India, including the capital, New Delhi. As wind speeds drop and nights get cooler, the problem is exacerbated as polluted...

The Lifespan Of News Stories is a collaboration between Schema, Google News Initiative, Alberto Cairo and Axios. The project analyzes the shape of search interest data from the top news stories of...

Reuters set up a camera on top of our Delhi bureau, capturing hundreds of images over October-November, historically the worst period of air quality each year in the Indian capital. The graphics...

The earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia caused widespread destruction and killed more than 2,000 people. As the amount of destruction was still coming to light, Reuters used a series of...

Our visualisation sheds a new perspective on the ongoing trade war between Japan and Korea. The first chart provides an overview of goods in which Korea recorded trade deficit and surplus...

In 2008, the Australian government announced an “education revolution” -- a fundamental overhaul of a school funding system that had been in place in essence since 1974. Billions were poured into...

China has a centuries-long history of displaying fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve. As air pollution attracts more attention, fireworks became a target of criticism because they produce smoke and...

India again found itself preparing for its worst weeks of air pollution. Each year, from late October, a thick blanket of smog settles over vast swathes of northern India, including the capital,...

With the accumulation of urbanization and the population, the demand for air travel is expanding. Through the airport flights and airline data of 230 cities, the works have an insight into how the...

For the 2018 Brazilian general elections, our team developed a highly detailed results map, segmenting the electoral results by ballot location. This may seem trivial in countries where the state...

An infographic covering an overview of the fight against tobacco use and its cost to society in the UK. Information was taken from the NHS, ASH and Kaggle. Additional graphics were taken from Flat...

A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on October 29. Within 24 hours, the Reuters graphics desk pieced...

This project, entitled "Visualization of climate data for the web", was developed as part of a master’s dissertation by the University of Coimbra. The Climate Change is a current issue and, with...

On May 23rd, 2019, election results of the World's largest democracy were announced in India. This is a visual exploration of the Indian general election results. It uses interactive cartograms to...

This simple infographic gives a breakdown of reported UK & Wales crime cases by crime type and city.

A Marshall Project analysis of New York Division of Criminal Justice Services data from 2014 through June of this year shows that while the numbers of turnstile arrests have decreased...

The scenes of protest in Hong Kong over the last few months can appear chaotic, filled with throngs of activists and waving umbrellas. But in the undulating waves of people is a well-developed...

Over the summer and autumn 2018, there was a hot debate about weapon exports in Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Council wanted to loosen the export regulation such that, in certain cases,...

Did you know it’s not that hard to identify bots and automated accounts on social media? You can simply follow the traces they leave and their non-human behavior is easily revealed! ⁣Accurat turned...

This project used exclusive income and spending data for every school in Australia to show for the first time exactly how big the divide between rich and poor schools has grown. The divide is so...

Mass shooting fatalities have dramatically increased in the United States over the last ten years. We are still in mid-2019, and we count 25 deaths in 4 incidents. This visualization shows the...