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Domestic terrorism incidents plotted over time

The Washington Post (paywall) shows the recent rise in domestic terrorism incidents in…

Vaccine efficacy rates explained

Vox explains efficacy rates and why the best vaccine is the one you…

Collecting reports of anti-Asian hate crimes

The New York Times collected, categorized, and linked to reports of anti-Asian hate…

Stores that closed on famous shopping streets

Pre-pandemic, we walked around shopping areas casually browsing, but a lot of retail…

How the Ever Given got unstuck

The Washington Post illustrated how the Ever Given got stuck and was freed…

Coronavirus variant tracker

For Axios, Will Chase, with illustrations by Brendan Lynch, provides the current status…

GDP and vaccination rates

For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder look at the…

Rise of a variant in the U.K.

As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped…

Guess who the neighborhood voted for

NYT’s The Upshot has a quiz that puts you in a neighborhood via…

Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere

The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…

Steer through the Suez Canal

To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…

Analysis of color names used with makeup

For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…

What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth

yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…

Mapping all of the voters

In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…

Evolution of Chinese names

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…

Analysis of skin tones in beauty ads on Instagram

For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…

Pandemic timeline as animated dot density map

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…

Facebook feed comparison between groups

As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…