The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth highlighted a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could actually cause damage. Reuters...
With the evolution of technology, scientific knowledge, which used to be understood only by scientists, started to be transmitted to the general public through physical or digital artefacts...
Consider the accessibility and inclusiveness of the internet, by examining the internet speed performance.
How long it takes to transfer 100MB, in the ten countries with the fastest and slowest...
For at least 9,000 years agaves have been an integral part of Mesoamerican culture, identity, and tradition, supporting rural communities and healthy ecosystems. In Mexico today, intensive farming...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently released their “State of World Population 2023” report. This report, produced by a group of external advisers, researchers and writers, working...
Explore the Global Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Tax Database, a collaborative project between Data Whale LLC and the World Bank Group. This data visualization project offers a comprehensive view...
Algorithms are an increasing part of our everyday lives.
They are constantly making decisions about us, yet they rarely explain their reasoning.
In this story, opaqueness is used as a...
Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.
Humans are driving this...
With help from Google, police can drop a virtual dragnet over crime scenes that locate people’s phones within about 10 feet of accuracy. A warrant launches a three-step process, which starts with...
This visual, created by a cross-functional team across EVERSANA, is a dashboard constructed in tableau that comprises dozens of sheets that have been assembled to provide an audience a complete...
OpenFlights Airports Database contains over 10,000 airports, train stations and ferry terminals spanning the globe. Feel free to query all airports on this map.
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Enroll-HD is a clinical research platform and the world’s largest observational study for Huntington’s disease (HD). It is a resource for the entire HD community, including families, clinicians,...
I developed this data visualization to highlight the 20-year gap in life expectancy across regions - a phenomenon the United States hasn't experienced in nearly 50 years. I wanted to show the...
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been a topic of fascination and controversy for decades. With the advancements in technology, more and more sightings are being reported and documented...
Reuters documented and analysed more than 10,000 aftershocks that struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria in the weeks after the two massive earthquakes in February.
The team were able to...
The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...
The United States has joined more than 90 countries in a pledge to combat climate change and species extinction by safeguarding 30 percent of Earth’s land and water by 2030. These maps show areas...
Part 2 of The Bat Lands. First it jumped from bats to pigs. Then pigs gave it to people. Now the brain-damaging Nipah virus has found a way to leap from bats to humans without an intermediary host....
Merck can trace its roots all the way back to the seventeenth century when Friedrich Jacob Merck opened up shop as an apothecary in a small city in what is today southern Germany.
After the...
From the vast lakes of the US to the mangrove forests of Bangladesh, everything is at stake as the world heats up. In this piece for Earth Day 2023, we look at 16 species and landscapes at risk of...
A Streamlit app to create interactive temperature and precipitation graphs for places around the world.
We know that global warming is real. But how have temperatures developed in different...
This self developed website breaks down the inner workings of a wind turbine in a fun and innovative way. After a quick scrollytelling you can explore a 3D model of the turbine and adjust...
One of the societal challenges in high-income countries (HICs) is fertility decline below replacement level, driven by increasing childlessness (Zeman et al. 2018). For example, in Southern Europe...
This interactive visualization allows users to explore the relationships among different dog breeds. Users can select a breed of their choice and view which breeds share the same genetic variants...
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) interface is the cornerstone tool of the medical consultation, through which clinicians review, collect, interpret and curate patient data. Widespread criticism...
Our World in Data publish yearly stats on energy usage by country and energy source type (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), and this makes for an intimidating dataset on an increasingly urgent...
About two years after publishing "Geography of the Use of Pesticides in Brazil and Connections with the European Union", Larissa Bombardi, a professor and researcher on pesticide use in Brazil,...
There have been 61 Nobel Prizes awarded to 60 remarkable women for their exceptional accomplishments in their respective fields, of Science, Medicine, World Piece and the Literary Arts.
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