Where a divided nation stands, half a century after Martin Luther King’s death

The topic of migration in Italy is often simplified for electoral purposes and is often the subject of fake news. Through maps, numbers and infographics, we have tried to reverse this trend. With a...

Our submission visualizes a recent estimate by the Population Reference Bureau of the staggering number of people who have ever been born. Even though ‘modern’ humans have been around for at least...

China formally announced the opening of its first overseas military base on August 1, 2017, the 90th birthday of the People’s Liberation Army, a day charged with symbolic meaning for Beijing. This...

Using maps and infographics, this publication shows water-related challenges and how these link to Sustainable Development Goals, quality of life, migration and conflict risks. The visualizations...

The real impact of jail is far greater than the daily population suggests: People go to jail 10.6 million times each year.

We found ourselves reading more than we’d like to admit of the 312 page testimony of Glenn Simpson for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Realizing that the testimony itself didn’t provide enough...

Some names sound familiar, like Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., but most don’t.

Water is a bare necessity to us humans, and with the population explosion and rampant industrialization all around the world, we stare down the imminent Day Zero. Water, as we know it, will no...

How much is a trillion dollars? Exactly. Who knows? Nobody. But here are a load of trillion dollar values visualized so you can at least *see* what $trillion looks like.

With sky-high consumer confidence, historically low unemployment and a growing economy, retail should be booming. Yet more chains are filing for bankruptcy and rated distressed than during the...

Nearly two years since the shocking EU referendum vote, divisions have only hardened across Britain. Some people wished Brexit would happen faster. Some didn’t want it, but will get on with it...

On May 2, 2018, Enrique Ochoa Reza left the presidency of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, one of the ones with the poorest trajectory of the last 20 presidents of the PRI. This visualization...

The problem of racial discrimination has been a social problem in different countries. The unfair treatment of African and Caribbean Americans in the United States is one of the topics that has...

As Marijuana becomes more legalized and accepted within the global community, and as e-cigarettes such as Juuling are on a rapid rise, it is worth the time to make a closer examination at how these...

For Paradise Papers, we used interactive graphics to illustrate complex concepts related to secret, often convoluted tax machinations of some of the world’s most powerful people and corporations....

As U.S. labor markets tighten, policymakers focus more on bringing jobs to where the unemployed live, and the pools of labor that exist in areas left behind during the recovery.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It last made voice contact less than an hour...

After five editions of consistently high-quality publications, the American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies sought to create a more readable and engaging experience for users perusing the...

North Korea is never far from the media spotlight, as the rogue state’s nuclear weapons programme gathers momentum and its war of words with the United States threatens to spiral out of...

A major nationwide investigation that revealed how in seven states victims of crime who apply for victim’s compensation to help with funeral expenses, lost wages and hospital bills are rejected if...

The region has the worst murder rate in the world, but there are some signs of improvement.

To create Paradise Papers, we used interactive graphics to illustrate complex concepts relating to secret, often convoluted tax machinations of some of the world’s most powerful people and...

Prices and Earnings is an interactive report visualizing and analyzing data about the purchasing power of different professions for standardized baskets of goods. The data covers 77 cities around...

Government and campaign spending at Trump properties.

The Atlas of Economic Complexity is a powerful research and data visualization tool that allows people to explore global trade flows across markets, track these dynamics over time and discover new...

This explainer-piece breaks down for an international audience why the US-midterms are important, how they function and what has been the party-wise trends over the years. Also, it looks at related...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report is an important measure of our economy’s health. But much of the news coverage overestimates the importance of early numbers that are subject to...

Using the "BioFabric" method of depicting network diagrams, "A Chamber Divided" looks at historical co-voting percentages within the U.S. Senate. Over time bi-partisanship and intra-party variation...

As Democrats push to win back state legislatures in November, a Reuters analysis of election data found the party faces tough odds in the places most crucial to its future.