The Future Frontier is mapping and tracking complex issues and predictions that may shape the society & citizen, environment, technology, and government of future to offer a new way for...
As the crisis between Russia and the West deepened on the borders of Ukraine, Europe and Russia’s long interdependence on one another for energy has became a critical bargaining piece on both...
This project looks into Danish politicians' work hours. In particular, how late they work and what impact COVID19 had on this. The parliament's public data was used to get the publication date and...
Bio: I am an information designer and data sonification artist. I'm passionate about creating short, impactful data stories as well as nuanced, complex data-rich long reads. Throughout the design...
Storylanding dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 'Kursk' submarine disater unveiling an unofficial version of the tragedy.
According to the official version, the sailors’ deaths were accidental,...
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...
AI is quietly shaping everyday life—deciding who gets a job, which videos we see, and even who gets flagged by facial recognition. But as AI expands, so do its risks. Could facial recognition erase...
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...
Get to Know Your Judges is a friendly, accessible web-based guide to judges in Cuyahoga County. These judges have incredible power. But in recent years, almost a third of voters in the county...
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 World Hostility Graph displays the totality of the world's recorded conflicts from 1816 to 2014. In 198 years, 199 countries created 4726 conflicts whose outcomes created our modern...
On the occasion of the 2024 European elections, the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL has completely overhauled its election dashboard. We wanted to create a central place where all relevant...
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...
Slavery is a term that many don’t associate with modern times; however 45.8 million people are estimated to be living in slavery today.
The chart below shows their distribution worldwide and the...
Deciding whether to have children is a lot of things, including a financial decision. How long are parents expected to raise their children without an income in America, and how does that compare...
Public Safety data in Brazil is a difficult subject, almost impossible for a regular person to grasp. The data is spread across different government agencies and, more often than not, the agencies...
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...
The Russia-Ukraine war and the ensuing oil embargos have been in the news for long now. The impact of this on India's oil trade and the corresponding trade figures are depicted here.
With a...
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...
Denmark will likely soon have an election. While the Social Democrat lead government technically still has a year to decide on a date, one of the supporting parties has declared that if an election...
Tongues of Fire is a series of Data Visualizations with the objective of representing the variations and discrepancies in words used by corporate news media. The data itself is comprised of the...
C-SPAN sponsors an annual survey of historians, professors, and other “professional observers of the presidency” in order to rate and rank the presidents. “Rating the Presidents” visualizes that...
"Mapping American elections is difficult, and each mapping decision has its own strengths and weaknesses. Should one show raw margins, or percentages? Make the map easier to read geographically, or...
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...
Data from a civil rights group shows that reports of hate incidents involving American mosques jumped sharply in 2015 and has remained at the same rate since — about once every three days.
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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...