A 30-year retrospective on California's declining water resources shows just how dire the current drought is compared to others in history. Using an animated line graph from Row64, this...
In January 2020, the weekly French newsmagazine L’Express (founded 1953, which pages has hosted writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus) acted an important rebranding. The new visual...
The German federal election takes place this September. For the first time since the 1950s, a party to the right of the CDU/CSU is on track to enter the German parliament: the right-wing populist...
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...
Unlike other DEI projects, Insider illustrates inequities built into our society with data and hard numbers in the “Cost of Inequity” series.
The goal of the series is to let our readers know...
On April 20, 1999, the United States where shocked by the High School school shooting and attempted bombing in Columbine, CO. It caused 15 fatalities (12 students, one teacher, and two...
Survey research reveals how Americans view Democrats and Republicans’ ideology, extreme positions and motivations. Surveyed voters placed themselves, the two parties and their respective voters on...
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because...
Members of the public in European states including France, Belgium, Germany and the UK greatly overestimate their country’s Muslim population and the rate at which it is growing.
Each year The Atlantic Council's Freedom and Prosperity Center publishes their Freedom and Prosperity Indexes, dedicated to exploring the relationship between freedom and prosperity in both...
Never before has the state lost so much money through tax trickery. How did the largest tax scandal in postwar German history come to pass? We have the details.
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 data visualisation is part of my project which is an awareness campaign on the environmental effects of food consumption, especially beef, which is one of the most inefficient forms of food....
Our first reaction to the Indonesian Kanjuruhan Stadium Disaster as a team was a locator map with some simple references, after a few days I decided to go further by using good image sources and...
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...
The measurements of "success" in networked social media do not render visible the actual importance of #MeToo or the broader phenomenon of structural sexual violence. In crucial ways, the structure...
The Webapplication berlin re:tweets shows on basis of likes and retweets, which politicians of the German Bundestag received the most reactions on their tweets. Different visualizations of likes...
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...
The World Hostility Graph displays the totality of the world's recorded conflicts from 1816 to 2014. In 198 years, 199 countries created 4726 conflicts whose outcomes created our modern...
The campaign season has been a fire storm of insults, but was it really all that bad? A look back at American elections’ cheap shots, dirty tricks and October surprises. Personal Project 2020
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,...
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...
The data shows the number of foreigners removed from the United States has been increasing for several decades. Trump’s hard-line stance might not be the fundamental shift in national policy as it...
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...
Typically, an investor’s power over a company is proportional to the the amount of money they’ve invested: The more shares you own, the more votes you have to vote for members of the board or on...
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...
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...