“A Matter of Time” takes a comprehensive look at the nature of long prison terms in the U.S. – how time served in state prisons has grown in recent years, who is serving the longest prison terms,...

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...

Sometimes information is both telling and funny. Nikhil Sonnad and Keith Collins of Quartz visualize Donald Trump’s unique communication style during the 2016 presidential election. Analyzing 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...

At a time when New South Wales Police were already under immense public scrutiny, this story used the police force’s own statistics to question the efficacy and legality of its “proactive policing”...

To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times, wounded 1,385 and...

An exploration of search patterns during election years. More information: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/waves-of-interest

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...

Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than HIV/AIDS did at its peak. These maps and charts tell the story.

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during 2019 represent a milestone in the city's history and a breaking point between the situation prior to the anti-Beijing movements and what would happen...

Instant data analysis and visual overview of the results of the 2017 general election in Germany as they came in. A team effort that included work from designers, developers and data...

‘These tax cuts are set to reshape Australia’s budget’ had a single goal – put the massive $243 billion price tag of the stage 3 tax cuts into perspective. It’s easy for one’s eyes to glaze over...

Each civilian life lost in the war in Ukraine, caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion that began on February 24, 2022, carries a story—of someone who should still be here. This project aims to...

This project is a visual essay called Game of Words. In it, I analyze and present narrative patterns in Russian state media during the war in Ukraine in a scrollytelling format. These findings...

FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered by a new president. It is an untarnished moment during which the American leader can set the presidential tone, inspire a country, put an...

A suite of information graphics detailing North Korea's military ambitions.

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...

The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...

There is significant overlap between countries most affected by climate change and those most at risk of violent conflict. In order to provide a bird's eye perspective on the climate-conflict...

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

With the powerful Hurricane Irma approaching the continental U.S, we sought to visualize and make sense of the some of the dangers facing those in Irma’s path, creating two maps and a chart to...

At the beginning of 2021, Marine Le Pen was a year away from coming second in the presidential elections in France, Jair Bolsonaro was the President of Brazil, Donald Trump had completed his four...

For decades, Germany's major cities - all cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, from Salzgitter to Berlin - attracted people from the countryside. But data show that the trend has reversed....

Each year, 1 in every 20 Americans racks up just as much in medical bills as another 19 combined. This critical five percent of the U.S. population is key to solving the nation's health care...

Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...

This graphic was one piece of an investigative project by Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica that uncovered how dozens of police agencies in America are making rape cases look as if they are solved...

The map of America’s gun violence epidemic can seem overwhelming. There were more than 13,000 gun homicides in the US in 2015, across nearly 3,500 cities and towns. But the toll of this gun...

This is the first part of a three-part series that comprised a detailed national investigation into police mishandling of sexual assaults reported in Australia. Australia’s sexual assault data is...

How can you make the SDGs accessible to a broad audience and captivate 25,000 visitors? The answer: through compelling VISUALIZATION, an interactive GAME SHOW, and hands-on ENGAGEMENT. The SDG...