Since 1980, there have been 101 mass shootings in the United States in which four or more victims were killed, most recently on August 31, 2019 in Odessa, TX, where 7 people died. As painful as it...
Lawmakers are supposed to write your laws. Instead, sometimes, special interests write them. This is how they do it.
Our investigation examined nearly 1 million bills introduced in all 50 states...
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...
The infographics describes in detail the devastating blaze that struck the iconic Notre-Dame de Paris. The cathedral’s location in the city (for better clarity, the map shows the Louvre and the...
On the occasion of Pope Francis' visit to Hungary, we have prepared an article that describes the stages of his visit and the history of papal visits and the papacy worldwide. We used AI-generated...
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...
The chancellor’s second budget of the year sets out where Philip Hammond expects the state to get money from in 2018, and how he expects it to be spent.
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...
Visualizing polarization in the US Supreme Court from the 1946-2015 terms. Justices are color coded by the party of the appointing President and sorted in order of decreasing perceived conservative...
President Trump declared that the United States would leave the Paris climate agreement, following months of infighting among Trump’s staff that left the world in suspense. He said he hopes to...
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 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...
This work shows a stream chart that breaks down the categories of goods and services that are responsible for driving inflation up in Brazil. Each stream represents the percentual variation of...
Open Trade Statistics (OTS) was created with the intention to lower the barrier to working with international economic trade data. It includes a public API, a dashboard, and an R package for data...
We analyzed a friendship and aggression network collected from a group of high school students (8th–12th graders). We depicted social behaviors among the studied subjects by designing a...
These are illustrated memories of four people who endured one of the darkest moments of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Karina Zaiets, herself displaced from Ukraine, and the USA TODAY Graphics team,...
In recent years, an increasing number of terrorist attacks have shocked communities around the world. Many of the gravest attacks have occurred in nations often overlooked by Western media, such as...
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...
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.
Infographic showing the order of succession in the royal family of Saudi Arabia since Ibn Saud, founder of the country in 1932.
The complexity of the royal family of Saudi Arabia was a challenge....
Venezuela's fortunes rise and fall with the price of oil, and when crude prices tanked in 2014, its economy was thrown into chaos. A government that had relied on oil revenues to fund social...
The digital era has opened the door for new forms of communication and has not just allowed more people to communicate, but engendered new modes of communication; a powerful tool, yet unfortunately...
Based on data from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this visualization examines the number of hours worked by women on average per week. The story originally appeared in...
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...