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...
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...
Up to 79,000 Mexican migrants has been deported from the US back to Mexico. This view shows each record graphically to gain a better understanding of the data. Who they are, born city, skills,...
The Collectif de Recensement des Féminicides Conjugaux en France has been gathering information on femicide in France for more than 3 years. In 2010, Day after day, they built an entire map of...
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...
Domestic violence has long been rooted in Chinese families. But public understanding of domestic violence is still unclear, or even unaware of the threat. Starting from the process and steps of...
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 BIOPRINTER project offers a unique data experience by utilizing living moss for data visualization.
The project is based on the idea that data describing a natural phenomenon can hide not only...
Historic storms in California barely made a dent in a daily reality for most residents — a years-long, expansive drought. This long-scroll heat map shows the devastating drought California has...
This rendering of history's most lethal periods highlights the 100 deadliest events of the past 2,500 years. Statistics can't fully reflect the devastation and suffering of war. But they illustrate...
Viz for Social Good project in partnership with Kiron (provides a learning platform for refugees worldwide and underserved communities in the Middle East). The aim of the project was to visualise...
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)...
The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media, found New Jersey’s system for tracking police force is broken. It collected five years of police force data to show readers how often...
China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...
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...
From the publisher: "No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life—the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the healthcare you get,...
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...
The 360Giving Trend Engine application allows users to quickly explore the UK grant making landscape. Users can browse who has funded which themes and track the location of grants recipients over...
The experiences of female sex workers are widely misrepresented and misunderstood. This three-part series invites viewers to consider the experiences of these women including, 1) Risk factors that...
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...
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...
In 2022, my household’s CO2 emissions melted the equivalent of 24m² of arctic sea ice. Now I am on a mission to find fun ways of limiting global warming. Join me on my journey to learn how to...
By the end of 2022, the number of refugees globally stood at 35.3 million, an increase of more than eight million from the year before, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for...
The UN is promoting the compilation of a global database in order to know countries achievements towards a more sustainable sea. ‘Life Below Water’ is the 14th goal of Sustainable development for...
Despite the fact that our world is more free than ever before in history, there remain some 45.8 million people living in a state of modern slavery. This visualization analyzes the problem of...