Immigration remains a hot-button issue in American politics—and it needs clarity. Enter the Economic Innovation Group (EIG), a bipartisan public policy organization. EIG is committed to creating a...
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...
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,...
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...
In all, at least 30 pre-existing conditions would automatically disqualify people from major health insurance plans before the Affordable Care Act, according to another recent study by the Kaiser...
We went through the transcript of the hearing and noted every single time a question was asked of Ford and Kavanaugh. (We didn’t include the times a questioner didn’t ask an explicit question.)...
Over the past four days, a mix of politicians and other figures — athletes, actors, business people and the like — delivered 73 speeches as part of the Republican National Convention. We tracked...
This project illustrates the global evolution of political regimes between 1800 and 2021, classifying them into four groups: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, electoral autocracies and...
Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...
This image represents all possible return curves from index funds 1870 to 2016, using a buy-and-hold strategy. All values are "real" returns, meaning that dividends and inflation have already been...
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...
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...
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?...
President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.
To be more precise, he has a revocable trust that owns 99% of a Delaware limited liability company that owns 99% of another Delaware...
Who would the rest of the world vote for? A data-driven digital experience visualizing “soft” and “human” data to discover the world’s interest in the 2016 US presidential candidates.
By looking...
An interactive beeswarm which shows the number of days before a presidential election all major candidates since 2008 have announced their campaigns. As the user scrolls, the beeswarm dots re-color...
The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...
This story aims to show and tell a visual story of the widening gap between men and women in Sweden in their political preferences and identification as left- and right-wing.
I wrote this...
This project aims to communicate the runaway inflation that has happened in the last few years. As a line chart, this data encodes to a nominally linear line. Instead by mapping the line to a...
The reason for striking a blow at the Arab Republic was the incident on April 7 in the Syrian city of Dumas, where, according to some statements, chemical weapons were used.
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...
High-speed rail has developed rapidly in China in recent years. Its maximum speed has recently increased, to 350 kilometers per hour, and it has shortened the trip from Beijing to Nanjing to 3.5...
Since June 2016, Britain’s position in the EU has remained uncertain due to Brexit. As a consequence of this political uncertainty, Reuters looked at how the British economy has positioned itself...
The growing gap between the top and bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder has been a prominent topic of public discourse in recent years. Statistics vividly portray this phenomenon. According...
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In his 2004 book Perilous Times, Geoffrey R. Stone observes that with respect to free speech rights in wartime, “Time and again, Americans have suppressed dissent, imprisoned and...
To understand what the gap means in people's every day life, I compared the time it takes for men and women to earn those wages. In each occupation, how many weeks at a male's average salary does...