This story investigated and explained sanctions during the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially why certain individuals/entities were not sanctioned over their critical...
Insider's investigative reporting project, "Conflicted Congress," reveals how members of the US House and Senate have eviscerated their own ethical standards, avoided legal consequences, and...
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.
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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...
It's a project that masterfully weaves together poignant statistics and emotionally charged photographs, commemorating the resilience of the Ukrainian people one year after the war. Each picture of...
The German federal election takes place this September. For the first time since the 1950s, a party to the right of the CDU/CSU is on track to enter the German parliament: the right-wing populist...
Identity Theft in the US dashboard shows the number of thefts that has occured in the US from 2001 to 2017. It also shows the demographics and the states which are mostly affected. Finally it also...
This is the first 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...
For decades, Germany's major cities - all cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, from Salzgitter to Berlin - attracted people from the countryside. But data show that the trend has reversed....
For the first time, representative data on the spread and resonance of QAnon conspiracy narratives in Germany and Austria is collected and evaluated. The report combines these findings with an...
An interactive data visualization project that presents 16 post-communist prime ministers of Romania and the main indicators that defined their mandate, along with Parliament seat distribution by...
The Butterfly Effect series examines some of the most unlikely chains of cause and effect through history. In February 2018 British fried chicken fans went hungry, as KFC restaurants up and down...
People from two congressional districts in Ohio are asking Google about gas prices with more urgency than Americans anywhere else. Abortion is a dominant search in deep-red swaths of Oklahoma, and...
This is the second 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...
The world's largest online retailer Amazon.com Inc reported its highest profit ever, almost $2 billion in the last quarter of 2017. Here's an unpacking of the Prime economy and how Amazon's focus...
In the context of understanding the complex phenomenon of violent religious radicalization, this map details the journey of ISIS’ foreign fighters to the territories of the Caliphate, as well as of...
A visual analysis that presents 95 significant parties in 18 countries divided into seven party types based on the political goals and kind of society each type wants to achieve.
This is an interactive force diagram which allows visitors to see instances of officer-involved violence in their cities.
It allows exploration on two fronts. First, visitors can group the...
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...
Graphicacy helps Vote Run Lead reveal the vast underrepresentation of women in state legislatures. This exploratory visualization tool allows the user to see gaps in representation for every state,...
This piece makes a case for why Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is important and might be the most lasting effect of Donald Trump's presidency.
It starts with an explanation of the Supreme Court...
The inaugural address contains the first words uttered by a new president. It is an untarnished moment during which the American leader can set the presidential tone, inspire a country, put 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...
The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...
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...
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...
In this student collaborative project we responded to a brief set by the Immigration Detention Coalition (IDC). The team at the IDC wanted to work with data they had collected about alternatives...
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.
The US holds only 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners. Was it the war on drugs? Mandatory minimums? How we got here – the global leader in incarceration – is one of the...