Back in September 2013, President Xi Jinping first introduced the Silk Road Economic Belt during his visit to Kazakhstan. Just a month later, he gave another speech to the Indonesian parliament and...

Which terms were most commonly searched for in conjunction with the top candidate of the seven most wanted parties on Google?

Following far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s success in winning through to the second round of France’s presidential election, Reuters took a closer look at European parliamentary elections and their...

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

This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...

Since dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has had six presidential elections with a total of 29 candidates, including two women. Examine Boris Yeltsin’s unexpected resignation and steady rise...

Almost half of Americans believe that immigrants make crime worse. But the data tells a different story. This visual piece examines the relationship between immigration and crime in American cities...

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....

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.

The project shows representatives by party and by gender highlighting women in each party. You can see the inequality of men and women in the house of representatives of the United States during...

The number of protests around the Globe increased significantly in the past three decades. Since 1990, citizens' resistance and disagreement has been fueled not only by economic, social and...

After mass shooting events, much debate centers around Americans’ relatively easy access to guns.

This study shows data from the last 10 years and inspects how people changed their minds on political and economic issues. The data shows cross-tabular information, so in every question you can see...

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...

From food storage to furniture—we use plastic for everything. In 2008 alone 245 million tons of plastic were produced. These plastics often find there way into our waterways. Every year 6.4 million...

Education is a basic human right. However, many children still lack access to education because of all kinds of reasons.

Mental illness is a better predictor of misery than poverty is.

Since 2006, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an annual Global Gender Gap Report. In these reports, WEF "quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over...

A record year of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem

Access to adequate health care is crucial to social and economic development, as healthy human capital fosters productivity and economic growth. This scrollytelling interactive tracks global...

Government and campaign spending at Trump properties.

Dear Judges: When Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential debate received a boost in polling after her exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden in the first democratic debate, we wanted to know...

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...

There are many ways to think about the future - but some are more productive than others. Horoscopes, prophecies and ancient dream interpretations, for instance, are not exactly useful: whereas...

This chart breaks down the composition of assets for each tier of wealth. See what assets make up a regular person's net worth, versus that of a billionaire.

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...

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...

The election of November, 2018 ushered in the new 116th Congress of the United States of America. This visualization attempts to answer the question, “How diverse is the 116th Congress?” It does...

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...

A lot of research has shown that there’s no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States. But after one such study was reported on jointly by The Marshall Project last year,...