A data-driven investigation into the politicization and perception of crime in New York City. Although violent incidents are up since the pandemic began, crime is at decades-lows. Media coverage...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

W.E.B Du Bois 1900 Paris Exposition Recreations decksh recreations of visualizations in "W.E.B Dubois's Data Portraits, Visualizing Black America" edited by Whitney Battle- Baptiste and Britt...

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...

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...

The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The choropleth map represents the U.S. price parity in 2019 and the bubbles represent...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The work shows the total number of members and equipment of the Brazilian military forces based on a survey carried out by Folha with the army, navy and aeronautics. The work also shows how these...

This graphic provides a visual representation of the sudden and magnifying effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on credit ratings across different sectors of the debt market. The information...

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,...

The male workforce generally represents the mainstream, while the female workforce is often overlooked and invisible, but it is also a very important force in society that cannot be...

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...

On March 16, 2021 a series of racially motivated murders happened at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia during which eight people, including six Asian women, were killed. This horrific event, occurring...

This microsite is an accessible introduction to a historically inaccessible topic: city budgets. The tool allows visitors to learn about the Houston budget, build their own, and then share their...

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...