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...

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.

The US spends more money on healthcare than any other wealthy nation, but it hasn’t resulted in better health.

The path to power means checking certain boxes.

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...

Harvard Growth Lab’s Country Complexity Profiles is a first-of-its-kind tool that revolutionizes how to think about economic strategy, policy, and investment opportunities for over 130 countries....

In the first half of this year, the Chinese GDP reached 45093.3 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3% over the same period last year. The nationwide fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) is 299...

"Reprojected Destruction" shows the extent of Aleppo's recent destruction reprojected onto figure-ground maps of Berlin and London. The visualisation aims to help viewers relate their known urban...

Both the U.S. and Russia have a long history of interfering in foreign elections. This map displays known instances of U.S. and Soviet/Russian electoral interference from 1946 through 2000. The...

The aim of this data visualization is to discover the events of people failing to reach Europe between 2000 and 2018. It allows readers to visualize incidents and the resulting casualties across...

Global fishing is big business, and it is common to fish in other countries waters, both legally and illegally. How does the economic wealth of a country relate to its fishing activities?

Does size matter? I built a data visualization that focuses on small countries. The visualization shows the six World Governance Indicators, the ranking on the Human Development Index, the number...

Attitudes towards religions are commonly reported on, but rarely in a way that allows relative comparisons. As such, we conducted research among the US adult (18+) population (N=1150), asking them...

Every year, humanity is leaking more and more plastic into the world's oceans. Plastic does not dissolve. Instead it is ground into smaller and smaller pieces at the micrometer and nanometer...

Two-thirds of the money spent by Indian households go to roti, kapda aur makaan (food and beverages, clothing and footwear, and housing) alone. What about households in other developing countries?...

According to the 2013-2018 public announcement and other media reports of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Processing Information System of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of...

Plenum is a website that shows the complex structure of the European Parliament and makes it understandable. In an introduction, basic facts about the parliament are presented and its complete...

Donald Says is a press review for Donald Trump related news. This website analyzes 40+ U.S. news feeds and delivers an overview for up-to-date news trends. It shows the frequency of new articles,...

The narrative visualisation has been created using Tableau Desktop application and has been published in Tableau Public. It showcases the best suited investment options available based on a...

The map shows that downtown Boston, Chinatown, Roxbury, and Dorchester have had more aggravated assaults than other neighborhoods. Roxbury, downtown, and Dorchester had more robberies than other...

For the first time in several decades, the world is becoming less democratic, even as more countries hold elections. Bloomberg compiled and analyzed data from organizations that monitor the health...

Cable news is a major source of information for millions of Americans. But the story you get depends on the channel you watch.

The infographic is used to showcase the current food situation in Nigeria following the Nigerian government's ban on availability of foreign currency for food importation.

A data story that leverages video, quotes, and an array of data visualizations to share what it's like to be one of the roughly 25 million shiftworkers in the U.S. - that is, individuals who from...

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...

The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, with more than 58,000 Americans killed in the war. This data visualization demonstrates the burden of casualties that the US Army...

The size of protesting crowds is a contentious issue in Hong Kong. In many large protests, the headcounts estimated by police and protest organisers have been dramatically different. Accurately...

The project is based on two studies and combains the data about political violence incidents and the INFORM Global Risk Indexes. The objective is to create a sensitive, regularly updated and...

Terrorism has been a popular news item for over several decades. It’s a very complex issue, that originates from various extremists’ ideologies. But what the headlines don’t commonly say, is that...

Living in Texas, I had spent hours watching news coverage as Harvey made landfall and slowly crept its way inland towards my city. Fortunately Austin was spared, but as the bayous in Houston...