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.
Research seriesResearch programmes
Three lenses on a changing world.
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Europe, Measured
25 European Social Survey questions about trust, belonging and the good life.Explore the seriesSeries / 02
Climate Change Data Stories
25 IPCC-framed questions about observed change, future risks, and near-term responses.Explore the seriesSeries / 03
Enterprise Sales, Under the Microscope
Two sales myth-busting experiments and eight planned research questions about enterprise buying.View the research agendaPublished 18 August 2026 – 23 September 2026
34 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.
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Who Gets to Use AI?
Follow one country through four measurements of AI diffusion, the economics of adoption and the limits of what telemetry and surveys can establish.AI Diffusion & Economic Development · 18 min readOpen publicationPreview / 02
Recorded. Experienced. Feared.
The same country, different experiences of safety. An evidence-led investigation of gender, past victimization, police visibility and the everyday choices people say they avoid.Crime, Safety & Everyday Freedom · Data story · 15 min readOpen publicationPreview / 03
To charge, or not to charge?
Sixteen exhibits and two D3 instruments put electric-car adoption on the inspection floor. Follow Germany’s two clocks, draw a five-year path, compare sixty markets, and trace the long road from new sales to the existing fleet.Electric Cars, Diffusion & Industrial Change · Research field guide · 60 min readOpen publicationPreview / 04
The Great Expansion
One integrated research article on AI and the boundary of the firm. Explore a clearly labeled make-or-buy teaching model, follow the financial and company evidence, and distinguish investment, control, production and responsibility.AI, Corporate Boundaries & Economic Power · An integrated research article · 25 minOpen publicationPreview / 05
Three versions of the good life
Thirty-nine exhibits and three linked instruments compare the US, Canada and the EU. Follow the Rank Weave, inspect country relationships through time, and test how analytical weights move Canada across the Atlantic Seam.Prosperity, Well-being & the Atlantic · Data story · 45 min readOpen publicationPreview / 06
Time, kept.
Fourteen seconds and the making of the Moonwatch. Follow the record, inspect eleven qualification tests, compare precisely identified references, and explore a 3D watchmaker’s table.Engineering, History & Value · Data story · 20 min readOpen publicationPreview / 07
Many websites. Whose news?
A guided investigation into apparent choice, ownership and exposure across eight countries. Test how grouping, weighting and missing owner names change the answer.Media Ownership & Information · Data story · 16 min readOpen publicationPreview / 08
The Forest Remembers
Germany’s post-2018 disturbance average is 2.25 times its earlier rate, but 2024 is not a top-decile year in any of six countries. Ten exhibits separate forest land, canopy disturbance, recurrence and the limits of the map.Forests, Climate & Economic History · Data story · 22 min readOpen publicationPreview / 09
The Education Escalator
Germany and Estonia put PISA’s averages and social gaps in perspective. Twelve exhibits connect equality of opportunity, Rawls and Roemer, skill formation and the difference between AI-assisted work and independent learning.Education & Economic Opportunity · Data story · 28 min readOpen publicationPreview / 10
What aren't we building?
The data-center boom is real. Fifteen exhibits separate national investment accounting, local construction outcomes and grid constraints from an unproven general housing squeeze.AI Infrastructure & Opportunity Cost · Data story · 18 min readOpen publicationPreview / 11
The Great AI Whitespace Trap
Companies that use no AI are not necessarily waiting to buy it. Allocate 100 salespeople, then ask what interest, digital foundations and obstacles change about the plan.Enterprise Sales & AI Adoption · Data story and sales experimentOpen publicationPreview / 12
Germany’s recovery, interrupted.
Orders are one thing. Output is another. Thirty exhibits test Germany’s conditional production gap, energy exposure and capacity to execute, including the evidence against a single structural explanation.Industry, Energy & Political Economy · Ad-hoc data story · 28 min readOpen publicationPreview / 13
Who arrives is changing
Immigration totals can barely move while the arriving population changes profoundly. Follow the education shift and explore a world atlas of age, sex and qualifications from 1990 to 2020.Demography & Economic Geography · Data story · 16 min readOpen publicationPreview / 14
Open Weights, Moving Frontier
Open releases can compress the capability gap. A frozen Epoch frontier clock shows why the next closed release can open it again.Economics of AI · Data story · 16 min readOpen publicationPreview / 15
The Value of a Second Way Across
A closed Rhine bridge connects 28,845 commuting relationships to a harder question: what does an alternative route need to preserve?Infrastructure & Regional Economics · Data story · 13 min readOpen publicationPreview / 16
Germany’s far right has three maps. How often do they overlap?
Music, protest, and violence share a local geography. A county timeline and lag model show why that ecosystem should not be mistaken for a causal conveyor belt.Political Economy & Extremism · Data story · 16 min readOpen publicationPreview / 17
The AI Wage Gradient
AI-exposed occupations were already highly paid. Germany does not yet show their wages pulling further ahead after ChatGPT.Economics of AI & Labor · Data story · 22 min readOpen publicationPreview / 18
Where Are Young Women Missing from Germany’s Demographic Map?
Germany has more women than men overall—but among 18–29-year-olds there are only 912 women for every 1,000 men. A living atlas traces where the gap opens, crosses over, and widens by nationality.Demography & Economic Geography · Data story · 15 min readOpen publicationPreview / 19
Regional Retreat Reached the Ballot Box
AfD support rose across German districts. Working-age population retention—not aging by itself—is the strongest observed regional-capacity correlate; the political feedback loop remains unproven.Regional & Political Economy · Data story · 12 min readOpen publicationPreview / 20
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.Consumer Economics & Demography · Data story · 12 min readOpen publicationPreview / 21
Canada 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.Aviation & Political Economy · Data story · 8 min readOpen publicationPreview / 22
The labour market is not collapsing. It is freezing.
Employment stocks remain resilient while the flows into and between jobs weaken across five labour markets.Labour Economics · Data story · 8 min readOpen publicationPreview / 23
Europe 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.Aviation & Economic Geography · Data story · 10 min readOpen publicationPreview / 24
AI Exposure Is Not a Jobs Forecast
Across 831 U.S. occupations, relative AI exposure and projected labor demand resolve into different distributions.Economics of AI & Labor · Data story · 11 min readOpen publicationPreview / 25
Where Heat Became Routine in Germany
Across 400 districts and 35 years, extreme heat shifted from an occasional disruption into a recurring operating condition.Climate & Spatial Economics · Data story · 7 min readOpen publicationPreview / 26
Does 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.Urban & Demographic Economics · Data story · 24 min readOpen publicationPreview / 27
The Wrong Border
Three city averages yield one ranking. But 74.6% of population-weighted midday surface-temperature variation lay inside the cities.Climate & Spatial Economics · Data story · 14 min readOpen publicationPreview / 28
Heat 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.Health & Climate Economics · Data story · 18 min readOpen publicationPreview / 29
Germany 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.Industrial Economics · Data story · 10 min readOpen publicationPreview / 30
The 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.Industrial Economics · Research prototype · 10 min readOpen publicationPreview / 31
Germany’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.Industrial Economics · Evidence audit · 14 min readOpen publicationPreview / 32
The German Order-Conversion Gap
The June divergence between German manufacturing orders and production is real; a post-2021 structural break is not established.Industrial Economics · Evidence audit · 16 min readOpen publicationPreview / 33
Composition Is Not Adjustment
The coefficient survives. Its meaning changes once convergence, capacity, and within-Land adjustment become visible.Regional & Demographic Economics · Pre-submission · 37-page paperOpen publicationPreview / 34
Germany Aged Everywhere. Growth Started from Different Places.
What Germany’s regional aging ratio does and does not reveal about growth, convergence, productivity, and automation.Regional & Demographic Economics · Visual essay · 18 min readOpen publicationEstablished interactives
Choose a system to explore.
9 route-native interactive systems, from convergence and input-output networks to industrial geography and political violence.
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BASF Ludwigshafen
Explore the spatial logic of the world’s largest integrated chemical complex.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 02
The GDP Race
Follow how economic leadership changes across countries and time.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 03
German Economic Reactor
Trace the sector connections that transmit shocks through Germany.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 04
Global AI Diffusion
Compare the geography and pace of intelligence adoption.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 05
Ideological Meltdown
Inspect the changing structure of political and ideological conflict.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 06
Power and Economy
A compact visual laboratory for performance, efficiency, and trade-offs.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 07
Channels of Extremism
Read long-run patterns of political violence as an evidence field.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 08
The Shifting Threatscape
Explore how the composition of terrorism in the United States changed.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyPreview / 09
Global Convergence
Test whether poorer economies are catching up with richer ones.Interactive · Source-led · Browser-nativeEnter the storyGo deeper