Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the Indian government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”.
This project follows the river from its source to emptying into the...
This work is inspired by a similar poster by W.E.B. Du Bois. It shows links between slavery ports that dispatched people from Africa toward Brazil. The thickness of the line is proportional to the...
Poverty & Conflict
In the 10 poorest countries of Africa
The Project started as an independent initiative to visualize information to convey a specific narrative for the D'source SDG...
Professor Alison Siegler, and her team at the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic of the University of Chicago conducted an extensive examination of federal pretrial detention. What they found when...
Africa’s small farm sizes have led to low crop yields compared to other regions. This, coupled with increasing global demand for agricultural commodities, has posed economic risks for emerging...
When you readily have access to a resource as foundational as food, it is easy to overlook the regions that do not have the same luxury. This visualization highlights the progress society has made...
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,...
This piece dives into the progress made on a global level towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through data on world poverty, hunger and health.
Armed with the rosy...
A honeycomb represents the power of cooperation. In a way similar to bees working together in a community to build and maintain their hive, people around the globe work together to produce wealth...
Climate change is reshaping our world. Across Africa, climate change is already increasing forced migration and displacement, referred to as ‘climate mobility’. It is estimated that by 2050 up to...
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...
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 2022-23 drought in the Horn of Africa has caused devastating, irreversible damage to families and communities, as well as the urban centres and natural ecosystems that are meant to support...
During the civic-military dictatorship of Argentina, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police stations. Military bases expropriated houses and...
This poster series of data stories on the Cyclone Idai humanitarian response was a component of a Data-Art workshop to create data sculptures. To produce these posters, we collected open source...
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...
"Obstetric Fistula: A Women's Health Crisis" is a data-driven magazine spread detailing what obstetric fistulas are and how they affect women in developing countries. Data for this piece was...
The Model International Mobility Convention proposes a framework for mobility with the goals of reaffirming the existing rights afforded to mobile people as well as expanding those basic rights...
In 2022, regular Russian shelling has repeatedly caused blackouts in Ukrainian cities.The last three months of the year were the darkest ones for Ukrainians.
We visualized the average number of...
UNDP’s Accelerator Labs were built in 2019 to change the way UNDP does development by learning what works and what doesn’t in sustainable development to reach the Sustainable Development Goals...
This is about different types of trees found in MIT Institute of Design, Loni Kalbhor. I collected the data of different trees and plants found around the campus and then visualised it in a single...
The aim of the visualization is to drive awareness of what Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) do and the impact they have made specifically with regard to their work carried out in rural Rwanda, as well...
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...
“The contribution of Spanish companies on the Sustainable Development Goals" is the sixth of a series of reports that the SDGs Observatory of Esade and La Caixa Foundation have been working on for...
This large-scale print infographic commissioned by the NGO Rede Interação and produced with the communities of Santarém, illustrates how urban life relates to climate change.
When we think of...
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...
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...
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...
‘Deadly Disinformation: How online conspiracies about Syria cause real-world harm’ reveals how human rights defenders, victims of war crimes, journalists and humanitarians on the frontlines in...
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...