Crossing the Political Divide examines the nuances of the political divide, looking at registered republicans and democrats in Cincinnati, Ohio. The story is much more complicated that a swing city...

Thousands of independent businesses were threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic. But what do we really know about these businesses that constitute the the heart of our social and economic life? An...

Maternal mortality rates world wide have been dropping, but in the United States they've been rising. After the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v Jackson, many states are denying access to abortions...

THE PRESS FREEDOM diagram try to check the level of relation between the press freedom data annual publising by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), called "the World Press Freedom Index", agaisnt the...

Every year Russian deputies publish their income declarations. In addition to earnings, MPs and their family members should declare real estate owned or rented (apartments, country houses, garages,...

In response to heightened violence against Asian Americans in the U.S., Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) and The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) have conducted a national...

Denmark will likely soon have an election. While the Social Democrat lead government technically still has a year to decide on a date, one of the supporting parties has declared that if an election...

Bio: I am an information designer and data sonification artist. I'm passionate about creating short, impactful data stories as well as nuanced, complex data-rich long reads. Throughout the design...

The Atlas is the result of a semester's work by students of the Communication Design Lab at the Iuav University of Venice in an experimental collaboration with the Department for Digital...

C-SPAN sponsors an annual survey of historians, professors, and other “professional observers of the presidency” in order to rate and rank the presidents. “Rating the Presidents” visualizes that...

What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are addressed in the web-based article “Inter...what?...

There are many indicators which measure the state of democracy. These indicators sometimes move together, therefore we can have an overview about the direction one country has taken in the past...

Affected by the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine, I tried here to produce a non-polarising graphic that highlighted the human losses. To depict the potential and innocence of Palestinian...

With the decision for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade looming back in early May 2022, Insider produced a package of stories focused on the 13 “trigger law” states. These states had...

"Mapping American elections is difficult, and each mapping decision has its own strengths and weaknesses. Should one show raw margins, or percentages? Make the map easier to read geographically, or...

Australia's secret ballot voting system means we can’t figure out how individuals or specific groups of people voted. When combined with a paucity of fast-turnaround post-election public opinion...

Mechanicus is an interpretation of the large machine a single human can control via stock investment and how unsustainable it is since the only common factor is profit, not the customer, employees,...

This visualisation aims to showcase the degree of freedom across the globe in 5 major economic areas that break down into subsequent components using the economic freedom index from Fraser...

This story investigated and explained sanctions during the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially why certain individuals/entities were not sanctioned over their critical...

For decades, tracking how well - or badly - governments are doing in drug policy has been an elusive endeavor. In no small part, this is because data collection efforts by both governments and the...

Survey research reveals how Americans view Democrats and Republicans’ ideology, extreme positions and motivations. Surveyed voters placed themselves, the two parties and their respective voters on...

Election maps have failed to provide an accurate, clear view of the true state of the Australian political landscape — due to the distortions of geography and the way our system works. So we...

Interference 2020 is an interactive, open-source database that captures allegations of foreign interference relevant to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The visualization assesses the...

Many Australians understood the significance of the 2020 US presidential election, but not many of those would understand the system at the heart of it: the electoral college. To show our...

Terrorism is defined as "The threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or...

Less than half the world lives in a democracy.  Democracy is on retreat globally as it suffered more reversals in 2021 based on EIU'S Democracy Index 2021 report. The percentage of the world's...

USA Today partnered with The Associated Press and Northeastern university to revive a dormant database that tracks every mass killing in the United States, going back to 2006. The team at USA Today...

People from two congressional districts in Ohio are asking Google about gas prices with more urgency than Americans anywhere else. Abortion is a dominant search in deep-red swaths of Oklahoma, and...

How far do people migrate between childhood and young adulthood? Where do they go? How much does one’s location during childhood determine the labor markets that one is exposed to in young...

This is the first part of a three-part series investigating the flow of money from the gambling industry into Australia’s political system. It combined sophisticated data mining techniques with...