This project brings to life the unique research of the Economic Innovation Group on the fall of economic dynamism in the United States and how most states have been struggling since 2008. It puts...
Data Culture partnered with Vote.org to leverage data visualization in order to bring their work preceding the 2022 election into the spotlight. The full microsite explores not only their impact in...
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...
This project used exclusive income and spending data for every school in Australia to show for the first time exactly how big the divide between rich and poor schools has grown.
The divide is so...
A decade into America’s deadly fentanyl crisis, the supply chain fueling the narcotic’s production has grown into a ruthlessly efficient global trade, but one that’s almost a complete black box....
Each civilian life lost in the war in Ukraine, caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion that began on February 24, 2022, carries a story—of someone who should still be here. This project aims to...
Throughout 2024, North Korea launched thousands of balloons carrying bags of trash into South Korea, escalating tensions between the two nations.
The balloons disrupted flights at Seoul’s...
Sometimes information is both telling and funny. Nikhil Sonnad and Keith Collins of Quartz visualize Donald Trump’s unique communication style during the 2016 presidential election. Analyzing the...
In 2023, Fight for $15 celebrated a decade of major victories raising the minimum wage across the United States. This work was commissioned and printed for a New York exhibition featuring the art...
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...
The UK government has invested in high-tech surveillance for the English Channel. But as the number of small boats arriving on UK shores continues to rise, it’s not clear whether this expensive AI...
In the last seven years, Brazilian public funds were used to pay for, on average, two steakhouse dinners every day.
Since December of 2009, when all the expenses paid with government-sponsored...
With the powerful Hurricane Irma approaching the continental U.S, we sought to visualize and make sense of the some of the dangers facing those in Irma’s path, creating two maps and a chart to...
Which topics capture the attention of Americans during US election years? And how have our interests shifted from one election cycle to the next? This project investigates these questions with the...
Until the upheaval of 2015, Europe was home to the world’s most open frontiers. But within months, a messy effort to halt a mass flow of migrants fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan...
The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...
A project that visualizes news coverage of murders in Mexico. A Machine Learning algorithm was created and trained to locate, collect, and analyze news stories online. After the data was filtered...
The unmistakable rising and falling pitch of air raid sirens, warning of danger and destruction, have sounded every day somewhere in Ukraine since February 24th, 2022. That is the best sentence to...
It is estimated that there are 240 million marijuana smokers in the world. In fact, in less than 5 countries around the world it is legal to consume it.
Despite being an ancient plant with...
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 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...
To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times, wounded 1,385 and...
To investigate the threat from wildfire to communities across the West, The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY carried out a level of analysis usually reserved for academics and scientists. We analyzed...
More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...
The map of America’s gun violence epidemic can seem overwhelming. There were more than 13,000 gun homicides in the US in 2015, across nearly 3,500 cities and towns. But the toll of this gun...
‘These tax cuts are set to reshape Australia’s budget’ had a single goal – put the massive $243 billion price tag of the stage 3 tax cuts into perspective.
It’s easy for one’s eyes to glaze over...