In 1970, people first used more environmental resources than the world could produce. The gap between demand and nature’s ability to meet that demand has grown steadily since then. Each year we live in ecological deficit–taking more than can be replenished–we draw...
A collaboration between Data for Democracy and data.world Our final visualization. Read on to see how we made it! Bribery, extortion, and wire fraud. Those are the charges filed against Willie Cochran, a Chicago alderman accused of stealing “at least $30,000...
data.world is excited to announce the release of a valuable data source in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau — the American Community Survey (ACS). With these 16 new Census datasets, users can enrich their analyses with the most up-to-date U.S. demographic and...
The New York Times recently reported that international travel demand to the U.S. “dropped 17 percent after the implementation of [President Trump’s] travel ban.” Much less attention has been paid to the government’s role in shaping travel patterns out of the U.S.,...
If we’re lucky, data journalism, as a distinct and rare focus within journalism, is not long for this world. This is the effect of democratization. When technical skills begin to take hold in any industry, a familiar pattern plays out. Because of high barriers to...
“The Great Urban-Rural Divide” If there is an urban-rural divide in American politics, it is far more pronounced in post-election headlines and quotes from anonymous party insiders than it is on the ground — or in the data. The Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein pointed to...
