My first data visualization project for an Introduction to Data Visualization course. Our project brief: “Come up with a compelling focus or narrative” about financial hardship in Florida. After...

After the North African/European refugee situation had been in the news for several years, it slowly disappeared from the media. In early 2020, I wanted to raise awareness that even though we might...

Using data from missing migrants I wanted to visualise the lives that have been lost trying to find safe passage to a find a new safe home.

A circular visualization compares the food carbon footprint index for the year 2018 per continent and for all 130 countries listed. The food carbon footrpint, provided by nu3, is estimated for...

UPRoar Tools is an interactive and exploratory tool that gives human rights activists supercharged data insights to help them conduct more effective advocacy at the United Nations. Designed and...

The effectiveness of development aid is still under debate. Yet, from 1947 to 2013, a total of 1.5 millions of dollars for foreign aid has flown from one country to another. This interactive...

The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) reveals local trends in a large but lesser-known sector of the U.S. health care system – employer-based insurance, which covers half the population. HMI creates...

Visualizes the what percentage of your life USA is at war according to your birth year.

In 2017, over two million traffic stops occurred in Illinois. Each time an Illinois resident was pulled over, the enforcement officer was required to record the details of the traffic stop,...

Operation Fistula dashboards talks about what Fistula means and shows the African countries that are most affected by this condition. It shows the different criterias which are responsible for this...

A data-driven analysis shows how India’s public, COVID-19 patients, and hospitals inundated Twitter with desperate pleas for help. Pleas for oxygen, hospital beds, ventilators, access to...

Go Green! And why not start with your electric consumptions? An interesting article surfaced in Forbes just days ago, bringing forth good news! The costs of renewable energy have continued to...

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

The set of 31 voronoi maps show water points monitored over time by governments and development partners for indiviual countries. The data is collected by the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx)...

How can acts of violence be visualized in an appropriate manner? Jews, Jewish institutions, and Jewish-owned firms and stores in the German Reich were subjected to increasing violence long before...

As Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, FiveThirtyEight looked for a way to visualize how long the road to recovery can take. New Yorker’s 3-1-1 calls since Hurricane Sandy showed us that the...

During the past five decades 182 former death-row prisoners, an average of four people a year, have been exonerated of all charges related to their death sentences. Advances such as the use of DNA...

Our story, “Killings of Black Men by Whites are Far More Likely to be Ruled ‘Justifiable,’” tackles the complex issue of killings that do not result in any form of prosecution. “Justifiable...

Since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Russia on February 24 and the related hostilities in Ukraine, almost 121 thousand residential buildings, in which about a million families lived,...

How Humans Are Causing Climate Change “The primary driver of global warming is the human emission of greenhouse gases,” says Dr Noah Diffenbaugh, Professor of Earth Systems Science at Stanford...

There is a big problem in economics regarding tragedy, as in this field someone's pain is normally reduced to a figure for commensuration, here I would like to address that. Most people find it...

360Giving has launched a visualization challenge to answer questions to help funders to maximize their impact on the charitable causes they support. Such questions intend to give a better...

Imagine escaping home and embarking on a dangerous sea voyage to find refuge, only to realise that another nightmare has just begun. This is the reality for Rohingya refugees who flee from Myanmar...

A data visualization based on a study done by N26, the world’s first digital bank, titled The Female Opportunity Index 2021, which analyzed gender equality in 100 countries, looking at advancements...

Sunny Street is changing the world by providing heartfelt healthcare to our community’s most vulnerable people. They partnered with Viz for Social Good in collaboration to articulate their social...

For this collaboration with the International Detention Coalition, we have been asked, following the IDC brand guidelines, to design a few visualisations adequate for both print and digital...

Indigenous communities are the first victims of the drug trafficking business in Colombia. We set out on a journey among the Nasa people to tell two different stories about the unresolved question...

In Brazil, couples that want to adopt children need to go through an extensive examination and backround check. After they are accepted into the adoption proccess, they also need to fill a form in...

My visualization is showing survey results for the MyWorld survey looking at people’s perception on the successful (or not) achievement of sustainable development goals. As a part of the UN SDG...

This scroller piece invites users not just to see but also to feel the severity of income inequality in the US. With 1 pixel representing 1 dollar, the amount of scrolling required to earn what the...