This deep dive unravels the surprising partnerships and hidden profits behind the machine of parking enforcement in the United States. The project is part of a collaboration between researchers...

The story of one of the world’s most popular fruits reveals a history of inequality, exploitation, and foreign control. This project maps how the United Fruit Company established itself in Latin...

This interactive data visualization aims to leverage historical data to demonstrate the impact of redlining and increasing climate hazards on black populations and properties in the southern United...

Japan, a nation celebrated worldwide for its rich culinary heritage, faces a looming challenge: food insecurity. Despite the international recognition of Washoku, its traditional food culture, as...

This visualization aims to show the 10 countries with the highest number of forcibly displaced people between 2019 and 2023. It takes into account four categories: refugees, asylum-seekers,...

“Pathways for Girls in Africa” is a storytelling that visualizes data on adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting key indicators like education, employment, and early marriage to...

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) of Switzerland publishes an annual digital migration report, providing a comprehensive overview of migration trends based on statistical data. In 2023, the...

Balancing engagement with the gravity of migration challenges, Vida Migrante successfully bridges data-driven insights with an empathetic, interactive experience, fostering both learning and deeper...

This article examines evidence of sexual violence during the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the captivity of female hostages in Gaza. Through careful analysis of witness accounts,...

Natural disasters—from earthquakes and storms to floods and droughts—claim thousands of lives each year, though improved systems and responses have drastically reduced fatalities over time. This...

A data analysis was conducted to understand the main cause of death due to unnatural accidents in India and how it affects the population. The study found that road accidents are the deadliest,...

A project exploring income inequality in countries through the Palma Ratio, represented with an experimental tangible visualization, transforming income disparity into engaging narratives to...

A website to promote data use in the effort to eliminate child marriage. Designed and developed by DDS in partnership with UNICEF on behalf of the Child Marriage Monitoring Mechanism.

The statements "𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙛 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨," "𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙛," and "𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙛, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠" reinforce misconceptions about the deaf community, portraying them as unaware or ignorant, which is far...

Business Insider chose a visually immersive approach to highlight the visceral and deeply human consequences of the arduous journey a prisoner’s claim of cruel and unusual punishment entails before...

Texty.org.ua explores the transformation of the Dnipro River's landscape in Ukraine after the construction of six major reservoirs, which submerged 230 villages. The authors reconstruct the old...

Gender-based psychological violence remains a pervasive violation of human rights. The project investigates psychological violence, highlighting its devastating impact on victims and social...

I love cooking food. I love eating food. I love sharing food. But it breaks my heart that so many people in the world don't share that luxury. Join me as we explore the impact of undernourishment...

As a Viz for Social Good project, this data visualization showcases the work of the Association for the Prevention of Torture to monitor the progress across 198 states from 1984 to 2024.

SocialMap is an interactive platform that aggregates public data on education, health, and security in Brazil in one accessible place. Designed for both policymakers and the general public, it...

The U.S. has a long history of droughts that have impacted humans and ecosystems. But in the last 100 years, five periods of drought stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and...

Hong Kong is a city well known for its housing and space scarcity crisis affecting all its residents. But for the migrant domestic helpers living there, their socioeconomic and citizenship status...

Data visualization project for Al Majalla magazine, October 2024. Created in collaboration with illustrator Eduardo Ramon, this project presents a visual narrative that quantifies the devastation...

This visualization highlights the progress made in prohibiting and preventing torture over the past 40 years since the adoption of the Convention Against Torture by the United Nations in...

Supported entirely through volunteers in the data viz community, Viz for Social Good endeavors to create informative and impactful data visualizations for mission-driven organizations globally. In...

The data visualization provides an overview on countries' vulnerability to modern slavery and the prevalence of slavery based on the 2023 Global Slavery Index created by Walk Free, an international...

The Data Futures Exchange (DFx) is a global resource to empower decision-makers with state-of-the-art data and insights for a transformative impact. An open-source data innovation, the DFx connects...

This visualization highlights the security risks faced by aid workers globally, drawing on data from the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD). It examines 7,852 recorded incidents over nearly three...

This visualization depicts the waves of sea arrivals to Italy from 2016 to 2022, by demographic category. The data is from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The "waves" of each...

This visualization explores the global toll of natural disasters from 1900 to 2020, providing a comprehensive analysis of deaths by region, disaster category, and country. It highlights trends over...