The fear of an “unknown” illness without a definitive cure creates uncertainty, leading to anxiety and increased sharing of misinformation. Thus any senseless forward of a message, meme or video...

For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...

With "Made To Measure”, the filmmaker group Laokoon illustrates how online companies, advertisers, and other data traders use the information they collect – by telling an interactive story based on...

Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...

An illustrated and animated graphics story on how the movement to recognises a spectrum of genders is changing languages around the world.

In this article, we investigate about the castles that can be found in Spain, from the information collected by the spanish Nonprofit Association "Amigos de los Castillos" (there is no government...

This data visualization represents the admitted patient care activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector during 2019-2020. This dashboard...

FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...

The first thousand days of a child are the most important to guarantee healthy development. IMAPI is a Nurturing Care Municipality Index that combines over 100 metrics that are strongly related to...

We analyzed more than 382,000 headlines published between 2008 and 2021 from the top English-language news publications in India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States to see how...

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...

When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore. As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...

This story is about the most recent restoration of Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece. We received high resolution images of this world’s...

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

Online censorship consists of the control or the removal of certain contents that are accessible to the public. It exists because some governments and platforms want to regulate content. In...

This was a data-driven explainer detailing what “psychobehavioral segmentation” is and how we can use this approach to drive vaccine uptake. Rather than just looking at demographics, the approach...

The number of cases is rising, more and more people are dying and yet: we read and write mainly about statistics and hardly about people. How can we bring humanity back to the emotionless...

Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...

Total War is an illustrated account of the most pivotal historical episode of the 20th century: the Second World War. This authoritative, immersive account of a conflict that forever reshaped the...

An exploration of search patterns during election years. More information: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/waves-of-interest

In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...

Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season. A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...

It all began with a simple question, “Am I a reader or just another hoarder?”. During the lockdown when all my belongings came to my house, I realized the number of books I owned. So, I decided...

A team of data and graphics reporters spent months talking with experts, analyzing and visualizing historical tornado data, and creating detailed explanatory graphics in order to explain a shift in...

This data visualization provides insights on the attrition trends in an organization with several breakdowns by department, job role, demographics, and survey scores. The glassmorphism design and...

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...

We illustrated over 200 masked wrestlers and showed how they are connected by design, geography, and culture. Choose a guided story or explore on your own.

Cantonese opera is a form of artistic expression that is almost a thousand years old. In Hong Kong there are theatres where operas are presented continuously, as well as there are annual events in...

Access to safe drinking water is essential for communities around the world. Regions without clean and accessible drinking water face serious economic and social challenges. 10 percent of the...

Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed lifestyles, personal habits, and created a deep chasm between “before” and “after.” We were interested in exploring how the pandemic affected people’s...