But there’s another factor that probably plays into how deluged we seem to be with news: Every time something happens, major or minor, our phones vibrate with an update — often from multiple...
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...
On May 23rd, 2019, election results of the World's largest democracy were announced in India. This is a visual exploration of the Indian general election results. It uses interactive cartograms to...
Data Visualization based on the "Democracy Index", a report made by The Economist Intelligence Unit, which assesses and provides an overview of the freedom levels of authoritarian and democratic...
Some Democratic senators who face reelection next year are gearing up for a tough sell: that they still represent their voters’ interests, even if they’ve stuck with a party many of those voters...
Renewable energy production has surged over the past decade, however development in renewables varies widely across countries. This graphic charts the change in renewable share of energy production...
Inaugurate is an interactive guide to presidential inauguration speeches through the lens of Google Search, built by Jan Willem Tulp of Tulp Interactive in connection with the Google News Lab and...
This project illustrates the global evolution of political regimes between 1800 and 2021, classifying them into four groups: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, electoral autocracies and...
The use of chemical weapons is banned under international law and could constitute a war crime. International investigators have concluded that sarin, chlorine and sulphur mustard gas have been...
This visual story compares how Hong Kong and China apply the rule of law. The gap between the two systems is laid out and both jurisdictions are compared to the best and worst countries, as tracked...
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...
When Donald Trump took office on January 20th, 2017, he was already known for his tweeting — Slate even called him the best. Known for his strong interjections and his 140-character feuds with...
During the time when I was learning about Minard's famous visualisation of Napoleon's battle gains and losses, I was also increasingly interested in battles for civil rights in the United States....
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...
Though the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps families purchase the food they need, the maximum benefit rarely covers the cost of a modestly priced meal. This map from the Urban...
India is a developing country with a little over 64 percent of the population living in rural areas. However, even after 75 years of independence, the public healthcare infrastructure serving these...
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...
There are two phenomena which converged towards the writing of this blogpost. First of, the recent US elections have put into question, yet again, the voting system used in electing the US...
Commercial companies like SpaceX are starting to gain traction in the space industry. There are currently more than a dozen private rocketscapsules and spaceplanes under development, with more on...
We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings.
We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...
The national parliamentary representation of men and women across 175 countries between 1997 and 2019. Developed as part of an Operation Fistula and Tableau Makeover Monday collaboration, Viz5,...
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,...
In 1984 Apple introduced Macintosh for the first time. In the 1984 ad, the big screen, which was presented as a metaphor for collectivism and censorship, was broken down into small individual...
The growing gap between the top and bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder has been a prominent topic of public discourse in recent years. Statistics vividly portray this phenomenon. According...
The volume of counterfeit banknotes - and coins, and bills, in Russia for eight years decreased almost threefold. What money is forged most often - in the TASS infographics.
How are American consumers behaving amidst rising prices and an economic slowdown? Despite tight budgets, this data story shows that consumers are using credit cards and tapping into savings...