A 30-year retrospective on California's declining water resources shows just how dire the current drought is compared to others in history. Using an animated line graph from Row64, this...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A review of presidential approval rates over time.

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...

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.

Comparison of Ukraine and Russia in numbers. If you're playing top trumps, there's only ever going to be one winner. But in real life, anything's possible. // Data sources Our World in...

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,...

Australia's secret ballot voting system means we can’t figure out how individuals or specific groups of people voted. When combined with a paucity of fast-turnaround post-election public opinion...

An exploration of search patterns during election years. More information: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/waves-of-interest