Inaugurate is an interactive guide to presidential inauguration speeches through the lens of Google Search, built by Jan Willem Tulp of Tulp Interactive in connection with the Google News Lab and...
The earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia caused widespread destruction and killed more than 2,000 people.
As the amount of destruction was still coming to light, Reuters used a series of...
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller made it clear after releasing his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that he wouldn't have more to say on the topic beyond the...
The scenes of protest in Hong Kong over the last few months can appear chaotic, filled with throngs of activists and waving umbrellas. But in the undulating waves of people is a well-developed...
If it felt like you were on an emotional rollercoaster during this past Presidential election, just look at what was happening to Donald Trump. As shown in ten of the major speeches he gave from...
The Future Frontier is mapping and tracking complex issues and predictions that may shape the society & citizen, environment, technology, and government of future to offer a new way for...
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...
The US is in political crisis. Also economic crisis. And health crisis. And climate crisis. And, you know, our foundational racism crisis. Plus the swelling income inequality! What does it mean to...
President Trump’s first real test on the ballot will come 20 months from now, when Republicans face voters at the midterm elections. But those Republicans have decisions to make today about whether...
How far do people migrate between childhood and young adulthood? Where do they go? How much does one’s location during childhood determine the labor markets that one is exposed to in young...
A compelling narrative created for Civic Influencers, an NGO, to showcase the potential impact of American youths’ interest in and access to votership, highlighting to both donors and students the...
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...
This visualisation aims to showcase the degree of freedom across the globe in 5 major economic areas that break down into subsequent components using the economic freedom index from Fraser...
In this project carried out for futuroinvestigates.org, we addressed the issue of migration, especially in the Arizona Desert, and how public policies have led to the migration flow occurring with...
Inflation affects us all differently, depending on how we spend our money. Too often we hear the Consumer Price Index (CPI) referred to as though one number can describe rising prices for...
This is the third part of a three-part series investigating the flow of money from the gambling industry into Australia’s political system. It combined sophisticated data mining techniques with...
This is the story of how Russian oligarchs tried to escape the sanctions. Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a significant part of the Russian establishment has been on sanctions lists...
The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...
In May 2020, the death of George Floyd set in motion an unprecedented shift in public consciousness around systemic racism in the United States. Spearheaded by #BlackLivesMatter, mass...
The disparities between many of the following cities’ demographics and the deaths at the hands of their police suggest that race is a key determining factor of who lives and dies during police...
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...
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,...
This piece makes a case for why Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is important and might be the most lasting effect of Donald Trump's presidency.
It starts with an explanation of the Supreme Court...
Renewable energy production has surged over the past decade, however development in renewables varies widely across countries. This graphic charts the change in renewable share of energy production...
This project used two decades of data from property portal Domain to reveal how the pandemic triggered Australia’s worst rental crisis in recent memory. The figures, supplied exclusively to the...
A project that visualizes news coverage of murders in Mexico. A Machine Learning algorithm was created and trained to locate, collect, and analyze news stories online. After the data was filtered...
This project aims to communicate the runaway inflation that has happened in the last few years. As a line chart, this data encodes to a nominally linear line. Instead by mapping the line to a...
For decades, tracking how well - or badly - governments are doing in drug policy has been an elusive endeavor. In no small part, this is because data collection efforts by both governments and the...
In 2023, Fight for $15 celebrated a decade of major victories raising the minimum wage across the United States. This work was commissioned and printed for a New York exhibition featuring the art...