After the world-wide financial crisis 2008, banking regulation almost doubled: This collection of texts now contains over two million words on thousands of pages. Its purpose is to prevent states –...

Artwork for 2U regarding childhood obesity and poverty in America

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

Announced in November 2022, The Independent Commission for the Study of Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church was set up to investigate various claims made throughout the years. On...

A data visualization that shows the stock-pile of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia.

Over the years, we’d done numerous stories on the rising cost of rent and the increasing difficulties many Canadians face when looking for a new home. But just how bad had things become? To...

Communal riots have a long history in India. This data visualization explores the fatality rate of riots. The figures are compared before and after India's independence in 1947 to determine if they...

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...

"Cracks in the Shells" is a data visualization project that explores the connection between the Global Food Security Index and anemia prevalence in pregnant women across both developed and...

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...

This data visualization, titled Stars in the Sky, represents the number of deaths in Palestine between October 7-25. The visualization uses a poetic metaphor, equating each lost life to a star in...

The New York Times, known as the New-York Daily Times back then, was founded on September 18, 1851, as a penny paper by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George...

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...

‘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...

The Standing Rock Sioux are inspiring the world with their resistance against the pipeline. But it’s not just Big Oil and Gas that they’re opposing.

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...

Since Obama’s election in 2008, the trend of urban counties voting for Democrats and rural counties voting for Republicans has grown stronger.

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...

The bubbles on this page show each of 4,935 trade lines, and the extent of tariffs affecting them; bigger bubbles for a higher value of trade, darker colours for heavier...

A forensic analysis of newly obtained CCTV footage shows the movements of a suspected suicide bomber in the Sri Lanka attacks. The project explains how the man, with a large backpack, casually...

The 15th Shangri-La Dialogue kicks off in Singapore on June 3, with a keynote speech by Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha. The region’s most prestigious defense meeting gathers military...

Today's the deadline for the government to reunite all families.

This project, developed in partnership with Crankstart—a San Francisco-based family foundation dedicated to fostering a just society—leverages data visualization to address the city's complex...

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,...

2020 News Was All So Bad, But Maybe Less Bad as Haikus? Prompting and visualizing 2,700 gloomy haikus about news events from 2020 (from ~2,000 authors on Mechanical Turk), forever...

A new survey from Pew Research Centre shows sharp drops in global approval ratings for America since the election of Donald Trump.

The MiG took off, the bus pulled to a stop, and the driver switched off the engine. The people in the cabin were quiet, hoping the driver would ignore it and it would come through. But the driver...

In the UK, there are 335 branches of Waitrose or littleWaitrose - a supermarket chain culturally associated with gentrification and affluence. Of these, 197 are located in London or the south east...

Across the United States, schools and libraries are facing mounting pressure from conservative groups to remove books they deem to be 'inappropriate'. These challenges often target content...

Last month, the Obama administration announced an eye-popping $38 billion security assistance deal with the Israelis, to be disbursed over ten years starting in 2019. That caught us off-guard. It...