My bachelor thesis on "The Economics of Space" is a pocket guide on commodities and profitability of satellites and spacecrafts.
My enthusiasm for innovative and emerging future topics brought me...
How do people search for candidates and political topics? And what are they really interested in? Wahl 2Q17 uses Google Trends to visualize the Google Search interest in the top candidates of the...
A Reuters in-depth analysis of flight tracking data revealed the movements and patterns of aircraft operating during the complex evacuation of Kabul city after the Taliban took control of the...
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...
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.
Terrorism is defined as "The threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or...
How far do people migrate between childhood and young adulthood? Where do they go? How much does one’s location during childhood determine the labor markets that one is exposed to in young...
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because...
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...
An interactive data visualization project that presents 16 post-communist prime ministers of Romania and the main indicators that defined their mandate, along with Parliament seat distribution by...
The interactive chord chart explores the international trade of vegetables, animals, and food products between the top 15 import and export countries from 2005 to 2014. Each chord represents the...
The data shows the number of foreigners removed from the United States has been increasing for several decades. Trump’s hard-line stance might not be the fundamental shift in national policy as it...
Against a backdrop of increasing natural catastrophes, this data story investigates the challenges faced by reinsurers in defending against growing losses. The frequency and severity of severe...
The traditional categories used for describing countries (Developed and Developing) do not provide an accurate description of the current status of any country. These categories were helpful in the...
Across the country, undergraduate and graduate programs burden their students with debt well beyond their post-graduation pay. These same schools have the ability to raise tuition relatively...
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...
Just as explorers use a compass and architects a blueprint, demographers use pyramid charts to read the tea leaves: What groups are aging or booming with youth , and what do these shapes tell us...
The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...
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...
This animated chart tracks the U.S. economy sector by sector, and follows employment and wages since 2006, just before the crash. The circles indicate industries, sized by their average number of...
Comparison of Ukraine and Russia in numbers.
If you're playing top trumps, there's only ever going to be one winner. But in real life, anything's possible.
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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...
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...
As nations around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, the number of countries that have had a female leader continues to expand. But the list is still relatively short, and even when...
The electoral college map, which was ubiquitous during the 2016 US presidential election, masks the political differences within states. In this piece, I examine the political divide at a more...
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...