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...

The U.K. wants to negotiate a sweeping free-trade deal with the EU to replace its single-market membership after Brexit. But the data show it's not in a great negotiating position. We visualized...

Executive orders are just one of nearly 30 types of presidential  actions that the president can use to do his job. All presidents have used them — they range from Lincoln’s Emancipation...

This visualization tells a devastating and urgent story through data: the catastrophic toll of Israel’s invasion of Gaza following the Israel–Hamas war that began in October 2023. It highlights how...

On the occasion of the 2024 European elections, the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL has completely overhauled its election dashboard. We wanted to create a central place where all relevant...

Get to Know Your Judges is a friendly, accessible web-based guide to judges in Cuyahoga County. These judges have incredible power. But in recent years, almost a third of voters in the county...

Communal riots have a long history in India. This data visualization explores the fatality rate of riots. The figures are compared before and after India's independence in 1947 to determine if they...

North Korea’s military parades are an impressive sight. They can also give away important information about the regime’s capabilities and ambitions. Here we deconstruct all of Kim Jong Un’s major...

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...

We were fortunate to find an amazing dataset on this one, since there was very little we had to do in terms of data cleaning. The original map, which showed the present abortion access at the time,...

North Korea has made steady progress in expanding its missile programme, developing weapons that can strike across the globe - or hit critical targets closer to home. New records were set for its...

In 2023, Fight for $15 celebrated a decade of major victories raising the minimum wage across the United States. This work was commissioned and printed for a New York exhibition featuring the art...

In October 2024, the Urban Institute launched the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard, a tool for local leaders to explore 24 conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in their...

Where does the UK government get its money? How much does it then spend? And on what? Here you can review spending in your abstract metric of choice: billions, percentage of budget, or amount...

The Japanese government is planning to release treated wastewater currently stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean later this summer. The plant was damaged by an...

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...

This interactive graphic illustrates how immigration policies and historical events – from the first world war to the Covid-19 pandemic – have changed the make-up of Australia since...

In the year after the Black Lives Matter protests, many US corporations promised to improve their record on diversity. Bloomberg obtained EEO-1 forms from 37 of the nation's 100 biggest companies,...

The World Hostility Graph displays the totality of the world's recorded conflicts from 1816 to 2014. In 198 years, 199 countries created 4726 conflicts whose outcomes created our modern...

Data visualization project for Al Majalla magazine, December 2024. This project features a bar chart as its main visualization, but with a unique twist—transforming it into a radial graph to add...

We have improved and developed our election results website, which we create for every election, to provide a better experience for both internal teams and external readers. Taiwan undergoes...

#Observasegurança is a non-profit public safety data visualization tool. With millions of data points comprising 4 different databases - including ones that have never before been made public -...

When police fail to follow operating procedures, the consequences can be deadly. The Review of New South Wales Police Force responses to domestic and family violence incidents, published in June...

The electoral college map, which was ubiquitous during the 2016 US presidential election, masks the political differences within states. In this piece, I examine the political divide at a more...

Data from a civil rights group shows that reports of hate incidents involving American mosques jumped sharply in 2015 and has remained at the same rate since — about once every three days. More...

Eight years. 533 campaign promises. Tracking the record of President Barack Obama.

The German governing coalition of the SPD, Greens and FDP repeatedly argued fiercely about money during its time in office. After the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, measures to combat...

A data visualisation produced for International Women's Day 2023 highlighting the underrepresentation of women in the world's national parliaments across a 10 year period from 2012 to...

The unmistakable rising and falling pitch of air raid sirens, warning of danger and destruction, have sounded every day somewhere in Ukraine since February 24th, 2022. That is the best sentence to...

The five U.S. territories—Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands—face a critical data deficit. The federal government collects far less...