A visual representation of the number of Iraqis estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chart compares the official estimates against UK public...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

Around 3 months into my backpacking trip, I was wandering around in Ukraine while trying to learn a few words. As hard as I tried, I would butcher the simplest of phrases such as "Good day"...

Since 1995, the status of girls and women around the world has improved, but a deeper look into the data shows major gaps remain. @ClintonFdn

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual...

The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) reveals local trends in a large but lesser-known sector of the U.S. health care system – employer-based insurance, which covers half the population. HMI creates...

It is estimated that there are 240 million marijuana smokers in the world. In fact, in less than 5 countries around the world it is legal to consume it. Despite being an ancient plant with...

Professor Alison Siegler, and her team at the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic of the University of Chicago conducted an extensive examination of federal pretrial detention. What they found when...

Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...

A look at ten years of food poisoning in England and Wales - highlighting the places where reported cases are high, and the reasons why.

Working with technologist Ekene Ijeoma, we created an interactive experience that illuminates where and when refugees emigrate, as well as the complex stories of political, social and economic...

This was my submission to the Real World, Fake Data (#RWFD) Tableau community challenge for June 2023. The challenge was to show the mobility of employees within an organization in an effective...

A look at the data behind eating insects - can it be a solution to our food security problems?

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have defied easy categorization since they burst into the public consciousness last year, fueling an intense debate over how they should fit into the average...

We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places. See where songs dominate across the globe

The Archibald Prize is widely regarded as Australia's most important prize for portraiture. It attracts broad public interest and has a rich and controversial history. The ABC News Digital...

A data visualization essay exploring Brussels and its people. It shows how diverse and culturally rich Brussels can be. It provides plain facts that make you proud to live in this city while...

MLB announced in December 2020 that it would officially designate the Negro Leagues as “major leagues.” This decision adds those players into MLB’s official stats and changes some of the game’s top...

America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

In the runup to the summer games, Reuters showed how Tokyo brings a double whammy of heat and humidity to the olympic athletes, posing a high risk of heat illness. Olympic athletes were to...

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

The Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

Sea level rise and cyclones. Supply chain shocks and cyber-attacks. Global insurance losses from disasters both natural and man-made are soaring. In the US alone, Moody’s data shows that losses...

How has the UK – cradle of the industrial revolution – nearly ended its reliance on coal? Carbon Brief tells this story of unprecedented change in a scrolling graphical narrative that maps every...

Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...

We teamed up with Census 2020 Data Co-op to design and build an embeddable map that displays Census data at the national level, as well as for states, counties, and census tracts. The Census data...

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

The following visio diagram is drawn to scale to reflect a single page display of the information provided on restaurant-associated foodborne outbreaks reported in England and Wales from 1992 to...