Dozens of countries are evaluating or already using digital currencies. This project tracks the current worldwide progress in adopting the new money on an interactive map with innovative filters.
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...
In the UK, there are 335 branches of Waitrose or littleWaitrose - a supermarket chain culturally associated with gentrification and affluence. Of these, 197 are located in London or the south east...
The measurements of "success" in networked social media do not render visible the actual importance of #MeToo or the broader phenomenon of structural sexual violence. In crucial ways, the structure...
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...
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...
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...
This is the story of how Russian oligarchs tried to escape the sanctions. Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a significant part of the Russian establishment has been on sanctions lists...
The project was part of the course on Data Visualization and Information Design by Federica Fragapane. The data was collected from Russia’s well-known human rights project’s website, OVD-Info...
Hong Kong has been notorious for its poor living conditions for those with lower incomes, with more than 220,000 people squeezing themselves in the tiny subdivided flats. With the coronavirus...
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...
The project Suchströme (=search streams) reveals the top search trends on Google related to the German election 2021. In a series of interactive graphics, people can explore and compare the search...
15 Prime Ministers had served under Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This visualisation shows who they were, the tenure of their time in office and what political party they represented.
Over the six months, Rest of World spoke to more than 70 technologists, activists, and journalists from across the globe to understand the growing threat to free expression: government-sponsored...
This publication was published jointly with Transparency International - Russia. Investigators discovered a scheme by which in 2014-2016, 41 billion rubles were illegally withdrawn from Russia,...
Information and Violence is an interactive data visualization showing a timeline of major U.S. news headlines along with monthly gun sales and homicides counts from 2016 to 2021. Since 2016, the...
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 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...
IDC (International Detention Coalition) is an NGO that focuses on reducing immigration detention and finding further rights-based alternatives to detention. We made two information graphics for...
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...
The project provides an extensive overview of the Ukrainian conflict before it escalated into full-scale war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 (the date of publication 24...
This is the first part of a three-part series that comprised a detailed national investigation into police mishandling of sexual assaults reported in Australia. Australia’s sexual assault data is...
"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...
In Switzerland energy sources interlock to deliver electricity throughout the year. During the winter months imports from its neighbors, most notably Germany and France, fill in the gaps. With...
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the attitudes of UK newspapers towards climate change, according to new analysis undertaken by Carbon Brief.
Drawing from a database of more than...
Mariupol is one of the worst sites of the Russian war of aggression. A documentation of the siege in chat histories, satellite images, maps and videos.
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?...
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 the relation between climate change and violent conflicts? Which role do socio-economic scope conditions play in exacerbating climate impact? How can we allow analysts and policymaker to...
This is the third 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...