This website allows the user to explore the data around the migrant crisis in Europe, including the routes, the fatalities, and the response of the different European countries.
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In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.
“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...
After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration. This interactive short documentary tells his...
I squirt some water into my mouth. It's vaguely lemon-lime. As I go to return the water bottle to its cage on my bike, it slips out of my hand, hitting the pavement and bouncing into the bushes....
For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behaviour. The respondents gave information about...
Many of the economic trends that have defined countries’ fortunes over the past year are especially striking when seen visually—how in the U.S., for example, unemployment declined, or how, in...
The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...
The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....
Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling.
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Why hasn’t wealth inequality improved over the past 50 years? And why, in particular, has the racial wealth gap not closed? These nine charts illustrate how income inequality, earnings gaps,...
Coal and natural gas are the most common sources for electricity in the country, but coal represents a declining share. The new Clean Power Plan seeks to accelerate that trend by requiring...
We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...
Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...
Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...
The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013.
Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...
Since December, our model has taken in all published constituency-level polls, UK-wide polls and polling conducted in the nations, and projected the result in each of the 650 Westminster...
629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....
Bicycle makers continue to produce lighter machines with better grip and more powerful brakes. Riders have been flirting with unheard of speeds during descents, touching 70 miles an hour. And...
Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...
In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...