This story investigated and explained sanctions during the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially why certain individuals/entities were not sanctioned over their critical...
This infographic (researched and published primarily to inform Members of the Oireachtas / Irish parliamentarians) provides a visual, non-exhaustive overview of key (2017) performance statistics...
Mass shooting fatalities have dramatically increased in the United States over the last ten years. We are still in mid-2019, and we count 25 deaths in 4 incidents.
This visualization shows the...
The United States was once viewed as the uncontested global leader in scientific and technological advancements. But America’s position as a top innovator is slipping, and other countries are...
The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...
In recent years, an increasing number of terrorist attacks have shocked communities around the world. Many of the gravest attacks have occurred in nations often overlooked by Western media, such as...
Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty on March 29, triggering Britain's divorce proceedings with the European Union and launching two years of negotiations that...
When election promises are not kept, this is met with incomprehension in our society. Behind political decisions often stand compromises, which are necessary to generate majorities. They form the...
The Atlas is the result of a semester's work by students of the Communication Design Lab at the Iuav University of Venice in an experimental collaboration with the Department for Digital...
Infographic showing the order of succession in the royal family of Saudi Arabia since Ibn Saud, founder of the country in 1932.
The complexity of the royal family of Saudi Arabia was a challenge....
Over the six months, Rest of World spoke to more than 70 technologists, activists, and journalists from across the globe to understand the growing threat to free expression: government-sponsored...
We were fortunate to find an amazing dataset on this one, since there was very little we had to do in terms of data cleaning. The original map, which showed the present abortion access at the time,...
Voter Turnout in RI is a datastory that allows the public to take an easy-to-use deep dive into data describing the where, who, and how of turnout in recent RI elections. Using a combination of...
The interactive chord chart explores the international trade of vegetables, animals, and food products between the top 15 import and export countries from 2005 to 2014. Each chord represents the...
Electionland is a project to track and cover voting problems during the 2016 election. It’s a collaboration between ProPublica and the Google News Lab, WNYC News, CUNY Graduate School of...
An infographic covering an overview of the fight against tobacco use and its cost to society in the UK. Information was taken from the NHS, ASH and Kaggle. Additional graphics were taken from Flat...
Dozens of countries are evaluating or already using digital currencies. This project tracks the current worldwide progress in adopting the new money on an interactive map with innovative filters.
As nations around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, the number of countries that have had a female leader continues to expand. But the list is still relatively short, and even when...
Slavery is a term that many don’t associate with modern times; however 45.8 million people are estimated to be living in slavery today.
The chart below shows their distribution worldwide and the...
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...
Our election forecast used interactive charts and maps to show the constantly changing state of the 2016 presidential race. We used multiple forms -- including several types of charts and maps --...
The rippling effects of the pandemic included disruptions to the corn-supply chain, which included worker shortages, unpredictable ethanol demand and machinery scarcity. These layers of disruptions...
The animated map shows the distributions of population and wealth across the globe styled as a nighttime satellite image. It illuminates one of the major issues of our collective present and...
The Eurozone? The European Economic Area? The European Free-Trade Area? The European Customs Union? Whaaat?
A graphic that hopefully clarifies the complex structure of the European Union and the...
328 religious communities were invited by the Canton of Bern to participate in a survey. The purpose of the survey was to learn about the growing diversity of the religious landscape in the canton...