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...

Election maps have failed to provide an accurate, clear view of the true state of the Australian political landscape — due to the distortions of geography and the way our system works. So we...

The scenes of protest in Hong Kong over the last few months can appear chaotic, filled with throngs of activists and waving umbrellas. But in the undulating waves of people is a well-developed...

Xi Jinping has repeatedly signaled his intent to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s control. Despite repeated threats and intensified military preparations, most experts remain skeptical that China is...

AP VoteCast is a survey of more than 120,000 registered voters in all 50 states conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. Our graphics-driven explainer breaks down VoteCast survey data to...

Over the years, we’d done numerous stories on the rising cost of rent and the increasing difficulties many Canadians face when looking for a new home. But just how bad had things become? To...

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....

Throughout President Trump’s first 100 days, the Fact Checker team tracked false and misleading claims made by the president since Jan. 20.

Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024 is a dynamic data visualization platform created by Graphicacy for The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) to track campaign financing during the...

The explosion of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at 1.23am on 26 April 1986 was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The dose of radiation released by this disaster was...

An infographic covering an overview of the fight against tobacco use and its cost to society in the UK. Information was taken from the NHS, ASH and Kaggle. Additional graphics were taken from Flat...

London households’ average weekly spending is one and-a-half times more than households in the North East of England, latest data from the ONS shows. At £652.40, households in London spent the...

A visual representation of each of the 44 impeachment motions against governments in the past 30 years in Romania and their impact on the stock market and national currency.

On May 7, France elected Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, president for the next five years.

To understand the historical polarity of our two major US political parties—Republicans and Democrats—this visualization uses data from voteview.com and leverages DW-NOMINATE scores, a...

FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...

When election promises are not kept, this is met with incomprehension in our society. Behind political decisions often stand compromises, which are necessary to generate majorities. They form the...

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...

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 Lifespan Of News Stories is a collaboration between Schema, Google News Initiative, Alberto Cairo and Axios. The project analyzes the shape of search interest data from the top news stories of...

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 visual shows the wealth gap between two sets of Americans

Can a metaphor with animated weather icons track the economic well-being of the United Kingdom and show the impact of Brexit over time? Here is our attempt at adding a little levity to an important...

Lab24, the visual area of Il Sole 24 Ore, has recently published “Italian succession”, a special longform that illustrates the stakes of Silvio Berlusconi's entrepreneurial legacy, enriched by data...

Superannuation (similar to a pension fund in some countries) and compound interest are notoriously dry topics. However, there are significant gender disparities in superannuation savings, with...

The visualization is created using Tableau software and some of the design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. The viz represents the recent trends of refugees migrating to the U.S from around...

Algorithmically fair? is a data physicalization project that visualizations disparate rates of a commonly used recidivism algorithm in the United States. Through simple pie charts, the project...

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...

At least 118 missing persons from 2017 have been located in clandestine graves, most of them in the municipality of Xalisco, adjacent to Tepic. The graves reveal part of the modus operandi of the...