This rendering of history's most lethal periods highlights the 100 deadliest events of the past 2,500 years. Statistics can't fully reflect the devastation and suffering of war. But they illustrate...
China has implemented a one-child policy since 1978. Every child is the support and hope of every Chinese family.
Lost children are common in china, and fortunately the situation is improving...
The World Press Freedom Index Visualization is designed to illustrate the global rankings of countries and regions based on indicators reflecting the level of press freedom. Press freedom...
It has been two years since a deadly explosion tore through Beirut’s port, destroying part of the capital, shocking Lebanon, and making international headlines.
The blast was devastating and,...
When you readily have access to a resource as foundational as food, it is easy to overlook the regions that do not have the same luxury. This visualization highlights the progress society has made...
This story aims to focus on miners, rather than the precious gems they dig from the earth – exploring the complexities and exploitation in the mining industry in parts of Asia.
We decided to...
This piece is designed to celebrate the hard work, the dedication, and the collaboration around the world to end polio. We are so close to achieving polio eradication, and we can not give up now.
This work contains data on the past of the African-American community: both pride and horror. The central piece of this graph is a curved bar chart that shows the number of enslaved people brought...
The Collectif de Recensement des Féminicides Conjugaux en France has been gathering information on femicide in France for more than 3 years. In 2010, Day after day, they built an entire map of...
Russian volunteers are searching through graveyards, archives and the internet to determine how many of the country’s soldiers have actually died in Ukraine. A database they helped build provides...
“Digital Rights and Technology Sector Accountability in Iran” examines the role of Iranian private-sector technology companies in upholding human rights online.
The report is based on an adapted...
This work demonstrates the distribution of wealth in the United States. A county-level household income dataset is used for the visualization. One county is represented as a circle, grouped by...
We worked in partnership with Italy–based NGO EMERGENCY to bring to life Afghanistan20: a historical document that utilizes imagery, journalism, and data visualization to portray with empathy the...
Completed as part of the #VizforSocialGood community project, this data visualization showcase the amazing work of Video Volunteers, a non-profit organization focused on empowering India's most...
Each year, Everytown Research & Policy updates their Mass Shootings database, a straightforward accounting of incidents that “haunt our collective conscience,” in Everytown’s words. To provide...
As Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, FiveThirtyEight looked for a way to visualize how long the road to recovery can take. New Yorker’s 3-1-1 calls since Hurricane Sandy showed us that the...
The BIOPRINTER project offers a unique data experience by utilizing living moss for data visualization.
The project is based on the idea that data describing a natural phenomenon can hide not only...
We are currently in a cost of living crisis in the UK with an increasing dependency on food banks. Food banks in the UK are also reliant on donation from the public, however with more than 35M...
Article 19’s Expression Agenda metric reveals the state of freedom of expression internationally. The metric examines 350 aspects of democracy in 172 countries to provide an analysis that captures...
Together with non-profit organization we wanted to change the positioning of blood donation, to remove fears and concerns before the procedure. Thereby increase the number of regular donors.
We...
360Giving has launched a visualization challenge to answer questions to help funders to maximize their impact on the charitable causes they support. Such questions intend to give a better...
This data visualisation consists of handmade paper trees. There are 20 trees, one for each of the 20 largest UK funders. The features of each tree, such as the lengths of its branches and its...
This large-scale print infographic commissioned by the NGO Rede Interação illustrates how life in brazilian slums and other low-income communities is being affected by climate change. Whether with...
How Humans Are Causing Climate Change
“The primary driver of global warming is the human emission of greenhouse gases,” says Dr Noah Diffenbaugh, Professor of Earth Systems Science at Stanford...
The rights to privacy, free expression, and assembly are being eroded as states work to undermine the foundations of the free and open internet. This is brutally apparent in Iran where numerous...
The set of 31 voronoi maps show water points monitored over time by governments and development partners for indiviual countries.
The data is collected by the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx)...
Our story, “Killings of Black Men by Whites are Far More Likely to be Ruled ‘Justifiable,’” tackles the complex issue of killings that do not result in any form of prosecution. “Justifiable...