India has around half a billion women, but less than 15% representation in parliament! I wanted to explore this trend through the ages. Although the representation has been growing, it's nowhere...
From food storage to furniture—we use plastic for everything. In 2008 alone 245 million tons of plastic were produced. These plastics often find there way into our waterways. Every year 6.4 million...
Reuters deployed its own teams to Hong Kong's July 1 march route to gather data on the number of protesters passing through. The project provided a new perspective on crowd size in the city.
The...
ZEIT ONLINE has enabled the graphic analysis of all speeches held in the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, since 1949. The interactive application show when which issues were debated and how...
With this real-time data visualization project I try to address one of the hottest topics in today's Italian politics: is it true that Matteo Salvini (deputy PM and Minister of Internal Affairs)...
Global fishing is big business, and it is common to fish in other countries waters, both legally and illegally. How does the economic wealth of a country relate to its fishing activities?
Every year, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) provides the latest demographic data for the world, global regions, and more than 200 countries and territories. This year we focus on the state of the...
Datadot developed the Human Municipal Development Report (IDHM) of United Nations Development Programme (UNPD). In this project, Datadot was responsible for data analysis and visualization,...
Two-thirds of the money spent by Indian households go to roti, kapda aur makaan (food and beverages, clothing and footwear, and housing) alone. What about households in other developing countries?...
“If 2017 looked like the year when moderate politicians took back Europe, look again.” So kicks off Bloomberg’s stunning interactive graphic mapping the rise and reach of the populist far...
It is no surprise that wealthy, industrialized nations consistently perform well on indicators of government-influenced social progress. It is more interesting to examine countries' performance on...
This visual app makes CO2 goals tangible on the personal level:
What can you change in your own household to contribute to the 40% reduction of CO2 emissions that the Dutch government has promised...
Some countries (most of them "great" democracies) invest a lot of money in their military spending and the production / transfer of arms. I used processing (well, p5.js) to visualise the top 10...
183,947 is the number of terrorist attacks on earth since 1980, the year that John Lennon was murdered.
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Dear Dreamers,
I have included the film rolls that I took from the 183,947...
Global climate change is currently a serious problem in our society, influencing the Earth's future. It causes many effects on our environment, such as glaciers shrinking, ice on rivers and lakes...
How much debt has been racked up by governments? This stunning infographic shows each country's share of world debt, along with their debt-to-GDP ratio.
Kim Jong Un’s policy of nuclear brinkmanship is based on North Korea’s ability to build and launch ballistic weapons with nuclear payload. We assess and map the country's efforts to fulfil this...
China formally announced the opening of its first overseas military base on August 1, 2017, the 90th birthday of the People’s Liberation Army, a day charged with symbolic meaning for Beijing. This...
Cruising to a fourth term in the March 18 elections, Vladimir Putin is relying on a deep well of support based on two main factors: the huge rise in living standards over his 18 years in office...
Climate change is an increasingly significant phenomenon and it’s likely to become irreversible. In this website, we analyzed how the international community is acting to mitigate the human...
There is not yet a standard definition of the term mass shooting, however this is a daily issue in the US, since the list of mass shootings keeps getting longer. "He was always nice" lets the...
The project gives a new perspective on the world and the »Democracy Index« by The Economist. Usually, we compare countries on a map. This is reasonable as their geographical position and shape is...
If Venezuela hadn’t introduced a new Bolivar note and removed five zeros from the currency a stack of notes to pay the minimum wage would have stood almost 20 metres high. We use visual comparisons...
The separation of immigrant families dominated headlines in 2018. But as we uncovered, a different family separation crisis has been unfolding in plain sight for years.
In a multi-year...
The Trump administration has made repeated attacks on climate science, hitting policymakers, scientists, and the general public alike with a united rhetoric that claims climate change is nothing...
‘Basômetro’ is a tool that monitors the votes of each representative in Brazil’s House of Representatives, with historical data ranging back from 2003 up to now. It then calculates a government...