Inspiration
A repository of data-driven visual stories from around the world, humanising complex issues with design and technology.
Dataviz
Who runs China?
Portraits of the deputies to the 13th NPC.
Documentary
Interactive
The [uncertain] Four Seasons
The [uncertain] Four Seasons recomposes Vivaldi with climate data to inspire action.
Interactive
Knowing Machines - Models All The Way Down
If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website, or fake a moon landing — you start by finding a really big...
Dataviz
Can I Eat It Yet? A visual guide to seasonal fruit and veg
Data visualisations of Australian fruit and vegetable seasonality.
Dataviz
visualizing palestine
Visualizing Palestine is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice. Visualizing Palestine uses creative visuals to...
Illustration
How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent
A law making it illegal to discredit Russia’s army has ensnared thousands of Russians for even mild acts or statements against the war.
Maps
Amazon Underworld
Crime and corruption in the shadows of the world's largest rainforest
Documentary
Why the US Sells Weapons to 103 Countries
The Global Arms Trade, MappedWatch my videos ad-free on Nebula (along with tons of other exclusive videos from fascinating creators). Sign up & get a 40% dis...
Dataviz
2023 The Year in Charts
View some of our favorite data visualizations from the year to see how data helps translate complex information into compelling stories.
Dataviz
'A shocking indictment': This data reveals the police response to 140,000 sexual assault reports
An ABC News investigation uncovers, for the first time, the outcome of nearly every sexual assault reported to police in Australia between 2008 and 2017. The results are a wake-up ...
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Can You Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action?
The Supreme Court effectively ended race-based admissions preferences. But will selective schools still be able to achieve diverse student bodies? Here’s how they might try.
Interactive
Farm the Gap - The Plotline
The strategy game and learning platform for feeding the future.
Dataviz
Wealth, shown to scale
Inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
Interactive
What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time?
Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings
Dataviz
Maps
East-West Exodus: The Millions Who Left
Since Germany's reunification, millions of people have left the East, triggering a demographic crisis. Data shows exactly what happened – and why there’s cause for hope.
Interactive
Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly
3D
84—24
The tale of restoring an '80s timeless classic.
Interactive
Artificial Worldviews
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.
Interactive
Adventures With Anxiety!
A story-game about a human and their anxiety. You play as the anxiety.
Illustration
Opinion | The Brink
The risk of nuclear conflict is rising. It’s time for the world to pull itself back from the edge.
Multimedia
Dataviz
Humans Are Biased. Generative AI Is Even Worse
Generative AI such as Stable Diffusion takes racial and gender stereotypes to extremes worse than those in the real world.
Dataviz
How five of the worst schools in Florida wound up in Pinellas County
How this happened, in 24 charts.
Dataviz
Is data neutral?
Le Monde dissected the code of the algorithm used to calculate the 'risk score' of social benefit recipients – their supposed likelihood of committing fraud, based on characteristi...
Dataviz
Multimedia
How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
Oxbow Calcining spent years running from clean air rules. New evidence suggests it bent the law until it broke.