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...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Statistical data is a key element in the review of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that set the...
Communicating complex information in a simple and enjoyable way is an art in and of itself. A few months ago, I decided to create my first data visualization and, after working so hard, with such...
In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...
This work demonstrates the distribution of wealth in the United States. A county-level household income dataset is used for the visualization. One county is represented as a circle, grouped by...
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,...
The rights to privacy, free expression, and assembly are being eroded as states work to undermine the foundations of the free and open internet. This is brutally apparent in Iran where numerous...
Freshwater has been described as the oil of the 21st century. In the wake of extreme water stress events across the globe in places like Cape Town, Mexico City, and Australia, I wanted to explore...
In the Zamzam displaced persons camp, children were dying for months before it was found to be in famine. Here’s how the world’s hunger monitoring-and-response system is supposed to work – and why...
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...
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...
To design this dashboard I tried to put myself in the shoes of a decision-maker in charge of making choices about the future of his country. I aim to create a tool capable of displaying the values...
What remains when all is lost? Under the blankets tells the story of seven different homeless individuals — in Italy 43.595 — forced to live in degraded and painful conditions. The higher the...
The interactive data story Dog Breeds features a narrative structure and contextual details that aid in the reader's grasp of the story's importance. The goal was to make the data more engaging by...
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...
The so-called refugee crisis puts the EU to the test and gives an impetus to extreme political currents. But how many refugees are we talking about? Where do they come from?
We elaborated a...
The purpose of this map is to illustrate the varying dynamics between world population growth and correlated CO2 emissions over the same time period through a single visualization.
This geographic...
Urbanization's effect on snake populations exacerbates the conflict. This research aims to investigate the multifaceted nature of snake-human conflict, unnecessary snake killings, and snake-bite...
In the end of 2022 people in Iran started to protest against the Islamist regime. Data shows how protests have sprung up around the country and where the government has unleashed the most brutality...
"The Impatient List" is a storytelling piece that calls the general public 's attention to patients of the kidney transplant in the United States. Organ transplantation is a highly collaborative...
Climate change demands immediate attention, and it’s surprising to learn that 18.4% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. This raises an important question: how might we make...
The imminent drilling of a well by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in the Foz do Amazonas region is a foreseeable catastrophe which will test President Lula’s commitment to the environment.
To...
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...
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...
“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...
A stylized tile grid map of Europe to viusalize the share and amount of renewable energy (main visualization) and the amount of renewable, nuclear and conventional thermal energy (small...