The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the Roman emperors (from Augustus to the last of the Western Roman Empire) , their causes of death and their years in power
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Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?
In December of 2015, the Supreme Court heard Evenwel v. Abbott, a case that could have drastically altered how election districts are drawn by counting eligible voters instead of all residents....
timeglo.be uses Wikipedia and DBpedia to create a database of over 20000 events from world history, each with a short description, and plots them on an interactive 3D world map. You can put in...
Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...
To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times and killed 858. The project...
After some lengthy investigative work, I was leaked an internal report by Transport for London revealing a 121% increase in reports of rough sleeping on London’s night buses. But the numbers needed...
The project aims to raise awareness about the growing number of war victims in a continent too often forgotten. Data on armed conflicts in Africa since 1900 have been collected and made available...
There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...
Visualeyed is an online visual journalism magazine, offering a new perspective in the web publishing industry. This project was born with the aim to promote and inspire visual forms of...
Much of the American West is in a prolonged drought. Western Water tracks the water levels of reservoirs across the western United States. It is a proxy for water availability in the selected...
A visualization of the ethnicities of the directors and actors of the 1000 highest rated movies on IMDB (February 2016). The idea originated from the debate of #OscarsSoWhite on social media. Thus,...
If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...
NarcoData is a summary of 40 years of organized crime in Mexico.
Organized crime in our country has overwhelming proportions that concerns itself not only with an expanding drug market, but has...
This map uses open source data, curated by the Carter Center and integrated and analyzed in Palantir, to show how the conflict in Syria has evolved over time.
A Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll of more than 74,000 registered voters reveals how the 2016 campaign is playing out in every state, including some unexpected shifts.