The separation of immigrant families dominated headlines in 2018. But as we uncovered, a different family separation crisis has been unfolding in plain sight for years. In a multi-year...

Every student has personal attributes that they bring to school. Their learning is affected also by other factors, such as curriculum and classroom instruction. In this story, we look at how the...

To create a "creative" recipe with AI, we challenged two things. 1) Finding the general theory behind ingredients' combination in food; and 2) developing an algorithm that understands cuisine style...

Museums are bastions of culture, they hold artifacts from all over the world. These artifacts hold different meanings to different people and some want their artifacts repatriated. Repatriation is...

The Trump administration has made repeated attacks on climate science, hitting policymakers, scientists, and the general public alike with a united rhetoric that claims climate change is nothing...

For a decade, the Pew Research Center has rigorously tracked restrictions on religion around the world — both those imposed by governments, as well as hostilities committed by individuals and...

Created using Tableau and Mapbox, this visualisation shows the significant volcanic eruptions over time and the population that could be threatened by a future volcanic explosion, in what is one of...

Jingxiu is an ancient Chinese traditional embroidery craft, a general term for embroidery products centered around Beijing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties it began to flourish. It was mostly...

Privacy Label is a ranking system that aims to address privacy concerns, not just online but also offline. It consists of circular stickers in the form of letter grading; from ‘A’ the best through...

The 24 solar terms represent climate change and are closely related to the health of tea drinking. In the "tea drinking guide", the spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively correspond to four...

With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...

Getting a bird’s eye view of them and following the individual paths as they weave through what might resemble spaghetti, some sort of flower or a bow-tie. It’s a beauty that cannot be...

A series of maps explain how President Assad’s military – backed by Russian warplanes – have been waging a harsh campaign against an array of rebel factions in Syria’s bloody conflict. The...

A visualization of wind direction, frequency, and speed at the airports of nine major cities in the US from January to October, 2018. Cities in include New York, Charlotte, Jacksonville,...

This map visualizes the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000...

Does size matter? I built a data visualization that focuses on small countries. The visualization shows the six World Governance Indicators, the ranking on the Human Development Index, the number...

More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...

The World is losing its green cover and it is time we act. Our actions have caused such tremendous damage to nature that we may soon reach a point of existential crisis. The Infographic 'The Time...

With the release of the annual health report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I looked at the subcategories of mortality, as defined by the World Health Organization, focusing...

Today, by simply walking in the streets of Cairo or tuning into one of the national TV channels, one is captured by hundreds of real estate billboards and TV ads that share certain characteristics....

This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. The visualisation depicts his most important published works and his...

This visualization was meant for the policy makers in India who need to know

This visualization explores the messages we’ve beamed into the cosmos over the last sixty years. Some are serious scientific endeavours, others less so. Together they represent a time capsule of...

A Catalogue of Canine Cosmonauts

"The international astronomical union officially defined the concept of planets in 2006. The new definition of planet excludes Pluto as a dwarf planet. There are only eight planets left in the...

From fashion statement to convenience product: the evolution of car paints from 1910 - 2019. Datavisualiation based on 13 million car registrations, published in het Financieele Dagblad, The...

The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...

The Reuters graphics desk scraped thousands of documents to match the faces of every candidate in India's mammoth election with wealth and criminal case information. The result is a detailed look...

The average person on earth would live 2.6 years longer if the air contained none of the deadliest type of pollution. Your number depends on where you live. The entrant has supplied multiple...

The Minimum Fleet Network model proposes efficient vehicle-trip assignments that reduce the empty time between trips with a passenger onboard. This way, a taxi can serve more passengers in the same...