125,000 people died, disappeared or were repressed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and during the Franco dictatorship, according to historians. Many of their families still do not know, 40 years later, what exactly happened to them. Now the Innovation and Human Rights (IHR) association has created the first central database of casualties, missing persons …
More than a million refugees and migrants came to Europe in 2015, what is considered the worst refugee crisis since the World War II. Visualisations are a powerful way to contextualise the data and analyse the magnitude of the tragedy. In this list I have collected 6 data visualisations projects about the refugee crisis. All of them use …
Data journalists don’t always find the data they need for their stories. That might happen when the data doesn’t exist because it’s not collected or when the data is collected but it’s not available to the public. In the absence of data, one solution is to create our own dataset. To do this, it is …
The words “Brexit”, “remain ” and “leave” are perhaps the most written and repeated these days in the countdown to the referendum on 23th June. Immigration, workers’ rights or the impact over the economy are some of the hot topics of the debate. Has the EU forced the UK to bring more rights to British …