Thinking · Interactive evidence
Data stories for questions that deserve more than a chart.
Explore economies, industrial systems, political change, and AI diffusion through direct manipulation, spatial reasoning, and evidence-rich visual narratives.
Published 18–31 August 2026
15 new ways into the evidence.
Data stories can be visual essays, research prototypes, or reproducible audits. What unites them is a claim that can be inspected rather than merely asserted.
The Toy Industry Grew Up
Europe’s child population is shrinking, but older recipients, premium mix and IP-enabled return loops have given the toy industry a demographic hedge.Open publicationCanada Is Flying Again. Just Less Toward the United States.
Total Canadian airport screenings recovered above 2019, while U.S. transborder traffic fell behind domestic and non-U.S. international travel.Open publicationThe labour market is not collapsing. It is freezing.
Employment stocks remain resilient while the flows into and between jobs weaken across five labour markets.Open publicationEurope Is Flying Again. But the Old Hub Map Is Not.
EU commercial flight movements recovered to 98% of 2019. European hub connectivity recovered to 88%. Frankfurt shows why frequency, seats, passengers, and connectivity need separate measures.Open publicationAI Exposure Is Not a Jobs Forecast
Across 831 U.S. occupations, relative AI exposure and projected labor demand resolve into different distributions.Open publicationWhere Heat Became Routine in Germany
Across 400 districts and 35 years, extreme heat shifted from an occasional disruption into a recurring operating condition.Open publicationDoes a Planned City Age Gracefully?
Tychy’s estates reveal visible age and access differences, but a twenty-estate model cannot turn planning chronology into a causal effect.Open publicationThe Wrong Border
Three city averages yield one ranking. But 74.6% of population-weighted midday surface-temperature variation lay inside the cities.Open publicationHeat Does Not Reach the Emergency Department Equally.
The age gradient in heat-associated presentations is strong. The evidence for an emergency-department throughput shock is not.Open publicationGermany Makes the Most Ice Cream. But Its Lead Is Melting.
Production, exports, and factory-gate value reveal three different geographies of Europe’s ice-cream economy.Open publicationThe Rhine Is Low. The Output Effect Is Still Missing.
Kaub’s low-water shock is visible; a national nine-sector panel does not recover a stable industrial-output penalty.Open publicationGermany’s Order Boom Is Smaller Than It Looks
Total manufacturing orders rose 3.1%, but broad orders and realized turnover moved in the opposite direction.Open publicationThe German Order-Conversion Gap
The June divergence between German manufacturing orders and production is real; a post-2021 structural break is not established.Open publicationComposition Is Not Adjustment
The coefficient survives. Its meaning changes once convergence, capacity, and within-Land adjustment become visible.Open publicationGermany Aged Everywhere. Growth Started from Different Places.
What Germany’s regional aging ratio does and does not reveal about growth, convergence, productivity, and automation.Open publicationEstablished interactives
Choose a system to explore.
9 route-native interactive systems, from convergence and input-output networks to industrial geography and political violence.
BASF Ludwigshafen
Explore the spatial logic of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex.Enter the storyThe GDP Race
Follow how economic leadership changes across countries and time.Enter the storyGerman Economic Reactor
Trace the sector connections that transmit shocks through Germany.Enter the storyGlobal AI Diffusion
Compare the geography and pace of intelligence adoption.Enter the storyIdeological Meltdown
Inspect the changing structure of political and ideological conflict.Enter the storyPower and Economy
A compact visual laboratory for performance, efficiency, and trade-offs.Enter the storyChannels of Extremism
Read long-run patterns of political violence as an evidence field.Enter the storyThe Shifting Threatscape
Explore how the composition of terrorism in the United States changed.Enter the storyGlobal Convergence
Test whether poorer economies are catching up with richer ones.Enter the storyGo deeper