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...

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...

The latest presidential race in the Czech Republic was hugely polarized. This infographic is to show exactly that - from one extreme to the other with all 6000+ municipalities between.

FGV (The Latin American Think Tank) studied the migratory scenarios experienced by the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany and calculated how scenarios similar to those would impact...

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...

How much debt has been racked up by governments? This stunning infographic shows each country's share of world debt, along with their debt-to-GDP ratio.

Vi(c)e organique offers a pathway for discovering the informal networks of influence that developed, starting in 2013, from consultations aimed at defining European environmental objectives for...

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.

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...

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....

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

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...

  Parliamentary forces in the history of the Italian republic.

We’re going to show you a chart without any labels. Then we’re going to ask you to choose among a few options for what the chart represents.

New research shows that Supreme Court justices are more likely to vote in line with their ideology when casting a pivotal vote. The findings raise serious questions about the neutrality of the...

The public is more likely to trust polls that are bad for liberals.  

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...

Drug trafficking infiltrated the national export logistics to control farms, packers, transport routes, shipping companies and ports. Hidden in containers with fruits and vegetables, they sail...

Twitter has become the venue for political outreach, international diplomacy, whitehouse personnel announcements and other important political communications. In this piece, we analyze the concept...

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...

United States of Arms visualizes U.S. major weapons exports from 1950 through 2017. The underlying data comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Database, a...

NYPD has significantly reduced arrests for subway turnstile jumping. But who gets arrested hasn’t changed: 9 out of 10 of those arrested for turnstile jumping are black or Hispanic. Across the...

In the wake of the first official summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, see which foreign leaders the two men have each spoken to and met with most...

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...

Following being moved by the statement of Michael Dowden ( see #IAmMichaelDowden on twitter) who conducted himself with courage and professionalism in an impossible situation I created the attached...

This chart illustrates U.S. Federal Government Outlays (discretionary and mandatory) from 1962 through 2023 forecasted as two animated pie charts.

With the continuous development of the high-speed railway in China, it is divided into eight vertical and eight horizontal lines. We choose one of the horizontal "shanghai-kunming railway" and...

The number of days we’ve gone this year without a mass shooting. As a nation, our longest streak ends at only five days.

An onion shortage crisis occurred in India in 2010. There were large outbursts and nearly toppled the ruling government. This is a piece attempting to deduce the reason for the crisis. View at:...