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Data visualization

Tools and platforms that visually present information and facilitate understanding of it, such as dashboards. See The Data Viz Catalog for a catalog of types of data visualizations.

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Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED)
democratic-erosion.org/dataset

Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED)

The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) records discrete events related to democratic erosion and autocratic consolidation across countries and over time.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Civic data, Open civic data, Democracy organizations
Trends (Who Targets Me)
trends.whotargets.me/reports

Trends (Who Targets Me)

Trends from Who Targets Me makes navigating and understanding digital political advertising data easier.

London
Data visualization, Advertising, Digital security and privacy
ScanGov
scangov.com

ScanGov

ScanGov is a government digital experience platform that helps public agencies monitor, improve, and maintain their websites. The service combines automated scanning with clear guidance to help govern...

United States of America 🇺🇸
Govtech, Govtech vendors, Report cards and audits
Data Hub Berlin Prototyp
data-hub.berlin

Data Hub Berlin Prototyp

Die zentrale & modulare Infrastruktur für Datenprojekte. Für eine digitale Verwaltung, die wirkt.

CityLAB Berlin
since 2025
Civic data, Open civic data, Open data publishing portals
cosmos.gl
cosmos.gl/?path=/docs/welcome-to-cosmos-gl--docs

cosmos.gl

a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

Network visualizations, Machine learning, Civic data
UK Petition Tracker
ukpetitiontracker.com

UK Petition Tracker

Real-time analytics platform for UK Parliament petitions, transforming official data into actionable insights for citizens and researchers.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2025
Petitions, Data visualization
patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototype-v2/#perspective-explorer

Perspective Map Explorer

It's like Google Maps...But for navigating complex human perspectives.

Data visualization, Participatory democracy
chalklearning.io

Chalk

Transform complex content into accessible diagrams

London
Data visualization
students, teachers & educators
Journalism++ (J++)
jplusplus.org/pt

Journalism++ (J++)

J++ é uma equipa internacional de peritos em jornalismo de dados, com escritórios no Porto e em Estocolmo.

Porto
Build something, Building in the private sector, Journalism
Visualizando ataques contra jornalistas no Brasil
voltdata.info/visualizando-ataques-contra-jornalistas-no-brasil

Visualizando ataques contra jornalistas no Brasil

Ao longo do ano, nada menos que 580 casos de ataques contra a imprensa foram registrados no monitoramento realizado pela RSF.

São Paulo
since 2021
Data visualization, Civic data, Journalism
Reconstitution
recon.elect.in.th

Reconstitution

Learn and compare Thailand's constitutions, presented through an interactive website, to enhance understanding of the constitution that everyone shares. | เรียนรู้และเปรียบเทียบรัฐธรรมนูญของประเทศไทย...

Data visualization, Constitutions
BKK Follow Up
bkkfollowup.wevis.info

BKK Follow Up

A 12-year retrospective of problems that have bothered Bangkok residents | สำรวจปัญหากวนใจชาว กทม.

Bangkok, Thailand
Budget explorers, Data visualization, Specific digital participation instances
city
What Could BG Be
report.whatcouldbgbe.com

What Could BG Be

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

Bowling Green, Kentucky
since 2025
Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, Specific digital participation instances
Google, Sensemaker, reports
The Life and Times of Citibike #32606
bsky.app/profile/agordon.me/post/3lkqsdctfys2k

The Life and Times of Citibike #32606

806 days, 8,624 trips, 7,060 miles. Thank you for your service.

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2025
Data visualization, Civic data, Mapping
cycling
Capitol Riot Map
capitolriotmap.com

Capitol Riot Map

Mapping the networks of the 1,580 individuals who were arrested, charged, or convicted for participating on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Texas
Crowdsourcing, Open justice, Network visualizations
Project 2025
Pardon Tracker
embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a040ba1fea6200b48668a5#capitol-riot-insurrectionists-pardon-tracker

Pardon Tracker

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charg...

Texas
since 2025
Watchdogging and transparency, Open justice, Data visualization
Project 2025
datahacker
blog.miketahani.com

datahacker

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

Data visualization, Mapping
Storytelling with Data Course
courses.newschool.edu/courses/PSAM5015/11685

Storytelling with Data Course

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY
Courses, Learn about civic tech, Academia
Solar Protocol
solarprotocol.net

Solar Protocol

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

Brooklyn, NY
Web hosting, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Decentralization
Affordable and clean energy
Melbourne Urban Forest Visual
melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au

Melbourne Urban Forest Visual

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

Melbourne VIC, Australia
Data visualization
trees
Metabase
metabase.com

Metabase

Providing an open‑source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform for creating dashboards, querying data, and embedding analytics.

Data visualization, Civic data, Dashboards
Congestion Pricing Tracker
congestion-pricing-tracker.com

Congestion Pricing Tracker

Curious whether Congestion Pricing is having an impact on commutes in NYC? Take a look to compare traffic data before and after Congestion Pricing

Brown University
since 2025
Data visualization, Civic maps
Sustainable cities and communities, city, mobility
Neighborhood Explorer
neighborhoodexplorer.org

Neighborhood Explorer

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

Tulsa, OK
Civic data, Dashboards, Data visualization
local
Air Quality Stripes
airqualitystripes.info

Air Quality Stripes

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

Data visualization, Civic data, Environmental data
air quality
¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?
datos.gov.co/stories/s/xa3t-qfub

¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

Colombia 🇨🇴
Civic data, Data visualization, Story tech
LookerStudio
lookerstudio.google.com/overview

LookerStudio

Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.

Mountain View, CA
Civic data, Data visualization, Dashboards
Google, commercial
Surveillance Watch
surveillancewatch.io

Surveillance Watch

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

Tech for Bad Hall of Shame, Digital security and privacy, Digital rights
surveillance
Domestic Data Streamers
domesticstreamers.com

Domestic Data Streamers

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

Carrer Papin 33, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Social impact design firms, Civic data, Artistic interventions
Congressional systems map
kumu.io/embed/ceef993c38052d6171cd0d84ac96c977#congress-public-trust?selection=connection

Congressional systems map

This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale dis...

Civic maps, Watchdogging and transparency, Network visualizations
Querido Diário
queridodiario.ok.org.br

Querido Diário

Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
since 2019
Government transparency, Civic data APIs, Artificial Intelligence
dataforcrisis.com

Data For Crisis

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practition...

Tallinn
since 2021
Media and social media analysis, Civic data, Data science for social good
refugees, COVID-19
Energy Profits
energy-profits.org

Energy Profits

History-making profits. World-ending emissions.

since 2024
Data visualization, Specific campaigns
Climate action, Affordable and clean energy, 2024 Webby Awards
Replacing the Refs
electiondeniers.org

Replacing the Refs

The Landscape of Election Denial in America

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2024
Voting and elections, Data visualization, Peaceful transition of power
corruption, 2024 Webby Awards
An Analysis and Deep Dive Into New York City Subways
public.tableau.com/app/profile/alex.borelli1627/viz/AnAnalysisandDeepDiveIntoNewYorkCitySubways/Story1

An Analysis and Deep Dive Into New York City Subways

A Tableau data visualization and analysis of public transit in NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2024
Data visualization, Civic data
mass transit
Spatial Equity NYC
lcau.mit.edu/research/spatial-equity-nyc

Spatial Equity NYC

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), v...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Data visualization, Civic maps, Civic data
city, place-based, Reduced inequalities
CoreData.nyc
app.coredata.nyc/?mlb=false&ntr=&mz=14&vtl=https%3A%2F%2Fthefurmancenter.carto.com%2Fu%2Fnyufc%2Fapi%2Fv2%2Fviz%2F98d1f16e-95fd-4e52-a2b1-b7abaf634828%2Fviz.json&mln=false&mlp=true&mlat=40.718&nty=&mb=roadmap&pf=%7B%22subsidies%22%3Atrue%7D&md=map&mlv=false&mlng=-73.996&btl=Borough&atp=properties

CoreData.nyc

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

Data visualization
housing, city, Sustainable cities and communities
NYC Funds Tracker
fpwa.org/nycfundstracker

NYC Funds Tracker

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

Budget explorers, Government transparency, Data visualization
AQI to Cigarette
shafeeq.me/air

AQI to Cigarette

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Data science for social good, Data visualization
air quality, Good health and well-being
SHARE LAB
labs.rs

SHARE LAB

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

Serbia (Srbija) 🇷🇸
Civil society research outfits, Data activism, Civic data
7 Routes to Applied Behavioural Science Experimentation and Observation
sevenroutes.com

7 Routes to Applied Behavioural Science Experimentation and Observation

A flowchart guide to help users consider which type(s) of experiments to run in policy settings

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭
since 2023
Behavioral economics programs, Data visualization, Policy simulators
Social Explorer
socialexplorer.com

Social Explorer

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities....

New York
Civic data, Data visualization, Mapping tools
PUNCHUP
punchup.world

PUNCHUP

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

No. 1 Building, 6th Floor, Soi Patpong, 1 Surawong Rd, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500
Social impact design firms, Build something, Civic data
Ruas do Género
ruasdogenero.pt

Ruas do Género

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

Porto
Civic maps, Data visualization
city, Gender Equality, Sustainable cities and communities
Digital Commons Lab
dcl.fbk.eu

Digital Commons Lab

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

Trento
Civic data, Mapping, Research and policy centers
OpenStreetMap
Police Scorecard
policescorecard.org

Police Scorecard

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

since 2024
Civic data, Data visualization, Data science for social good
racial equity, criminal justice, police violence
The Trevor Project: 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health
thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022

The Trevor Project: 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health

Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award

Data visualization
mental health, LGBTQI, 2023 Webby Awards
Colorado Broadband Hub
broadbandhub.colorado.gov

Colorado Broadband Hub

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

Colorado
since 2023
Civic maps, Connectivity, Dashboards
state
MTA.ME
mta.me

MTA.ME

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
Artistic interventions, Data visualization
mass transit
UNDP Transparency Portal
open.undp.org

UNDP Transparency Portal

Open database and map of recipients, donors

Level 21, One United Nations Plaza, New York NY 10017
Civic maps, Civic data, Open philanthropy
United Nations, United Nations Development Programme
Counting India
countingindia.com

Counting India

Making Census Data Easy to Use

Hyderabad
Civic data, Data visualization, Civic maps
census
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