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,...

20 years ago, he played his first professional match. Roger Federer has now won his 20th Grand Slam title. A data analysis of all the matches he has played reveals how he became the best tennis...

The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...

Beyond The Score is a book celebrating Wynton Marsalis’s 40-year career in jazz. This project marked the first collaboration between me and Martina, and was commissioned by one of his close...

Unseen, our plasticising planet Microplastics are much closer to us than we thought. According to the scientific journal, the global average weekly intake of microplastics per person is almost...

This graphic reimagines the classic Earth’s surface composition chart. Using a traditional Voronoi diagram as the base, I’ve added illustrations on top to make it intuitive and easy for children to...

“Art of the March” is an online archive and visualization of 6000 protest signs collected after the Boston Women’s March on Jan 21, 2017. As the largest collection of contemporary protest signs...

The UK government has invested in high-tech surveillance for the English Channel. But as the number of small boats arriving on UK shores continues to rise, it’s not clear whether this expensive AI...

By looking at data through the lens of age, we gain a snapshot of what a life is like.

An analysis of the transactions of the teams playing the 2014 Winter National Tournament. Where do new players come from? What new reinforcements have arrived in the country? Explore these and more...

The Australian magpie is known for being aggressive and swooping people every spring. Do magpies mean to hurt us? I decided to answer this question using mathematics. At my school there is a bad...

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....

Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...

Unveiling the Saudi Conflict is a data-driven tale about the war between the USA and the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda on Saudi soil. This thematic cartography visualizes data relating to the...

The Office for Creative Research is a multidisciplinary research group exploring new modes of engagement with data, through unique practices that borrow from both the arts and sciences. OCR...

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...

Twenty years ago, in the small city of Beslan, more than a thousand people gathered to celebrate the 1st of September — the start of the school year. Instead, they were taken hostage by terrorists...

Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists. Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...