"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...

A scatterplot of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) showing the time from a presidential nomination to result (confirmation, rejection, etc.) versus the number of days...

The disparities between many of the following cities’ demographics and the deaths at the hands of their police suggest that race is a key determining factor of who lives and dies during police...

Insider's investigative reporting project, "Conflicted Congress," reveals how members of the US House and Senate have eviscerated their own ethical standards, avoided legal consequences, and...

A compelling narrative created for Civic Influencers, an NGO, to showcase the potential impact of American youths’ interest in and access to votership, highlighting to both donors and students the...

Between 2011 and 2021, Zambia's national expenditure increased by a staggering 482%. This DataViz explores this growth by sector. This viz was featured in the Tableau Conference Viz Gallery in...

A visual analysis that presents 95 significant parties in 18 countries divided into seven party types based on the political goals and kind of society each type wants to achieve.

This data journalism story calls into question the popular U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges ranking system. The U.S. News rankings are relied upon by millions of applicants and their...

This project involves the research, design and development of an interactive data visualization article about the gun violence crimes happening in The United States. This is a quest to identify the...

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...

An infographic detailing the education of all Labour party leaders since the party's inception.

This piece aims to show in detail the comparison of war forces between China and India, puting the territory and its geography as a context. It opens with an enumeration of the war capabilities of...

The visualization is created using Tableau software and some of the design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The viz represents the recent trends of refugees migrating to the U.S from around...

A Reuters in-depth analysis of flight tracking data revealed the movements and patterns of aircraft operating during the complex evacuation of Kabul city after the Taliban took control of the...

This visual report examines Russia’s growing use of private military companies (PMCs) to increase its influence through irregular means. In recent years, Moscow has expanded its overseas use of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 next five years of Chinese leadership lie in the hands of the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This nuanced political system is built on a dizzying array of connections...

2020 News Was All So Bad, But Maybe Less Bad as Haikus? Prompting and visualizing 2,700 gloomy haikus about news events from 2020 (from ~2,000 authors on Mechanical Turk), forever...

The US is in political crisis. Also economic crisis. And health crisis. And climate crisis. And, you know, our foundational racism crisis. Plus the swelling income inequality! What does it mean to...

My bachelor thesis on "The Economics of Space" is a pocket guide on commodities and profitability of satellites and spacecrafts. My enthusiasm for innovative and emerging future topics brought me...

This is an interactive force diagram which allows visitors to see instances of officer-involved violence in their cities. It allows exploration on two fronts. First, visitors can group the...

The campaign season has been a fire storm of insults, but was it really all that bad? A look back at American elections’ cheap shots, dirty tricks and October surprises. Personal Project 2020

This project was a follow up on a map I designed as a response to Laura Trump's "Try to impeach this" tweet (https://twitter.com/karim_douieb/status/1231216013313789955). The essay try to explain...

During the time when I was learning about Minard's famous visualisation of Napoleon's battle gains and losses, I was also increasingly interested in battles for civil rights in the United States....

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...

The United States was once viewed as the uncontested global leader in scientific and technological advancements. But America’s position as a top innovator is slipping, and other countries are...