Nowadays, most Europeans take clean drinking water for granted. Yet, in the pan-European region alone, about 19 million people still do not have access to improved water sources and 67 million...
Makeshift huts crammed onto muddy hillsides. Water wells fouled by nearby toilets. Rapidly-spreading diseases. Health experts say overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the...
Climate change and global warming is suddenly very real when you take a look at this interactive map that brings together all the Earth’s natural disasters since year 2000. Flooding is a number one...
The data portrays the impact of workplace safety on employees and company performance. A safe working environment can maximize working time and productivity. It can also reduce the companies...
New York State of Incarceration focuses on trends in jail population in the state of New York. While New York City jail population has dropped by more than half over the last 20 years, population...
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 presents maps, charts, and stories related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses trends, comparisons, and measurement issues...
Information can be beautiful... why not stunningly beautiful? I wanted to mesmerise and captivate hearts as well as minds, inviting people to watch and interact and uncover - and trying to breathe...
We developed a series of video/motion graphics for UNITAID, an international organisation that invests in innovations to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria more quickly,...
Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a...
Migration Trail follows the journeys of two fictional characters: David, from Nigeria and Sarah, from Syria. Their stories are told via maps, data visualisation and social media, in real time over...
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...
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...
This piece is designed to celebrate the hard work, the dedication, and the collaboration around the world to end polio. We are so close to achieving polio eradication, and we can not give up now.
This data visualisation consists of handmade paper trees. There are 20 trees, one for each of the 20 largest UK funders. The features of each tree, such as the lengths of its branches and its...
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...
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...
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to neighboring Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. The exodus was sparked by a fierce military response...
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...
Guardian Australia’s Deaths inside investigation revealed serious systemic failings in Australia's justice system, and prompted widespread calls for action from all sides of politics.
Our...