Rents are on the rise in Berlin, and the reasons are manifold. Online portals of the so-called “sharing economy”, such as Airbnb, are marketing to tourists and have proven to be a profitable...
This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...
The second debate on Wednesday night was a three-hour affair, where Donald Trump dominated the conversation – a repeat performance of the first debate. Of words spoken by the 11 candidates, 15...
Asia is the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. But experts worry the continent is ill-equipped to handle the increasing traffic. Here are the major risks, illustrated through the course of a...
Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works.
I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My...
Infographics are the key elements to shed light on the story, thus making Chinese hospital registration issue more clear and understandable to the audience.
Hospital registration procedures has...
Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world. The...
After Amelia and Oliver have yet again topped the list of most popular baby names in England and Wales, we look at how other names are faring.
While Mia and Ella were gaining fans, there were...
In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...
The real estate market has been one of the main driving forces of China’s economy for more than one decade. This fast growing industry also contributed to social inequality in urban...
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...
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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Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
This project visualises the 1165 journeys women made to seek refuge in London between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016. It illustrates how far and wide women migrate across London boroughs when...
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...
This is the average day of 1,000 Americans. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I modeled a day as a time-varying Markov chain and simulated their time to the minute. The animated...
A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...
This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States.
The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...
Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?
The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices.
The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...
A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...
Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
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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Shrinking glaciers, a changing economy and environmental worries are forcing the Bhutanese to question whether their dependence on hydropower is the realistic way forward. This is a story of a...
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...
A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...