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...
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 traditional categories used for describing countries (Developed and Developing) do not provide an accurate description of the current status of any country. These categories were helpful in the...
This publication was published jointly with Transparency International - Russia. Investigators discovered a scheme by which in 2014-2016, 41 billion rubles were illegally withdrawn from Russia,...
Storylanding dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 'Kursk' submarine disater unveiling an unofficial version of the tragedy.
According to the official version, the sailors’ deaths were accidental,...
Lab24, the visual area of Il Sole 24 Ore, has recently published “Italian succession”, a special longform that illustrates the stakes of Silvio Berlusconi's entrepreneurial legacy, enriched by data...
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...
The project was part of the course on Data Visualization and Information Design by Federica Fragapane. The data was collected from Russia’s well-known human rights project’s website, OVD-Info...
Obamacare’s insurance marketplaces are in a precarious position.
Aetna quit the Obamacare marketplaces last week, leaving Nebraska and Delaware.
In Iowa, a smaller plan called Medica has...
Achieving Net Zero provides a set of information graphics led posters that have been created to raise awareness of Scotland's commitment to meeting its net zero emissions targets by 2045 (five...
Deciding whether to have children is a lot of things, including a financial decision. How long are parents expected to raise their children without an income in America, and how does that compare...
Thousands of independent businesses were threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic. But what do we really know about these businesses that constitute the the heart of our social and economic life? An...
Nichelle Smith, an investigations team editor at USA TODAY, recalls attending a lecture at the Library of Congress in early 2018 where she listened to scholars discuss the landing 400 years ago of...
This project brings to life the unique research of the Economic Innovation Group on the fall of economic dynamism in the United States and how most states have been struggling since 2008. It puts...
The male workforce generally represents the mainstream, while the female workforce is often overlooked and invisible, but it is also a very important force in society that cannot be...
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...
What does trade within NAFTA look like? Driven by trade data from the UN Comtrade dataset, this interactive explorable analysis of trade within NAFTA profiles trade over time and across commodity...
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...
Until the upheaval of 2015, Europe was home to the world’s most open frontiers. But within months, a messy effort to halt a mass flow of migrants fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan...
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive finally got underway, the pace of the early news came thick and fast. Between stalled Ukrainian attacks and what they revealed about the depth of Russia’s defensive...
Graphicacy helps Vote Run Lead reveal the vast underrepresentation of women in state legislatures. This exploratory visualization tool allows the user to see gaps in representation for every state,...
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...
In Switzerland energy sources interlock to deliver electricity throughout the year. During the winter months imports from its neighbors, most notably Germany and France, fill in the gaps. With...
With Ukraine’s counteroffensive well underway, the battle around Crimea proved a prime example of the novel ways in which Ukraine would probe and attack Russian defenses. This piece focuses on the...
According the UN’s Comtrade database, the global market for imported goods totaled $15.6 trillion in 2015. This map shows where those goods came from and where they went, each dot representing $1...
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...
C-SPAN sponsors an annual survey of historians, professors, and other “professional observers of the presidency” in order to rate and rank the presidents. “Rating the Presidents” visualizes that...
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...
What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are addressed in the web-based article “Inter...what?...