Countries are competing globally to grow better talent, attract the talent they need, and retain those workers who contribute to competitiveness, innovation, and growth.
This datavizualization...
___ is more? For Millennials and Baby Boomers, there is a clear divide between those who prioritize personal experiences versus financial stability as the "more" that they value.
This piece won...
Announced in November 2022, The Independent Commission for the Study of Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church was set up to investigate various claims made throughout the years.
On...
This project used two decades of data from property portal Domain to reveal how the pandemic triggered Australia’s worst rental crisis in recent memory. The figures, supplied exclusively to the...
The world's largest online retailer Amazon.com Inc reported its highest profit ever, almost $2 billion in the last quarter of 2017. Here's an unpacking of the Prime economy and how Amazon's focus...
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life, being educated and having a decent standard of...
With Europe’s largest nuclear reactor caught in frontline fighting between Ukraine and Russian forces, the world was on edge at the thought of another nuclear catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine. This...
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...
Click on a country on the map to filter all the coups from 1950.
Use the sliders to choose between cold war and post-cold war, or to focus on a specific period.
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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Mass shootings have increased by 57% in the last 3 years compared over the past 6 years. The US had 7 mass shootings in 2019, 12 in 2018 and 11 in 2017. In 3 years there have been a total of 30...
This piece makes a case for why Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is important and might be the most lasting effect of Donald Trump's presidency.
It starts with an explanation of the Supreme Court...
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 term 'Glass Ceiling' is commonly used in the business world to describe the difficulties faced by women and minorities when trying to move into higher roles in male-dominated corporate...
Latest general election results from the UK’s 650 constituencies. Theresa May’s gamble has failed; the Conservatives have lost their parliamentary majority and have turned to the DUP to support...
Interference 2020 is an interactive, open-source database that captures allegations of foreign interference relevant to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The visualization assesses the...
A scatterplot of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) showing the time from a presidential nomination to result (confirmation, rejection, etc.) versus the number of days...
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...
This survey is an estimate of the political balance of power at the time of the survey, not a prediction of the outcome of the upcoming elections.
The reliability of a survey depends on its...
2020 News
Was All So Bad, But Maybe
Less Bad as Haikus?
Prompting and visualizing 2,700 gloomy haikus about news events from 2020 (from ~2,000 authors on Mechanical Turk), forever...
The Atlas is the result of a semester's work by students of the Communication Design Lab at the Iuav University of Venice in an experimental collaboration with the Department for Digital...
No sitting American president traveled outside the country before Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Panama in 1906 to see the construction of the Panama Canal. A century later Air Force One regularly...
In 2017, Australia’s housing market began the long slide into what has since become the worst property downturn in the country’s history.
This project, published on the eve of the downturn...
Did you know it’s not that hard to identify bots and automated accounts on social media? You can simply follow the traces they leave and their non-human behavior is easily revealed! Accurat turned...
There was an estimated 2.85 million residents moving between local authorities in England and Wales between July 2014 and June 2015 according to data from ONS. The maps show the net flow per 1,000...
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...