If the avg. American was in Gaza, this is what it'd mean for their family and friends.

'After five months of war, seven would be dead.'

Powerful framing and statistics from Alyssa Fowers, Leslie Shapiro, Cate Brown, Hajar Harb. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

one of the most fun projects i've ever worked on :-)

i built an interactive beat maker, using the extremely cool and underrated ✨Web Audio API✨, to help you *hear* the story of how reggaeton beats evolved (& make your own beats!).

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Workers The Washington Post have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months.

But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.

So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.

got to spend a week answering a question i've long had. the answer, as you might expect, is much deeper than i imagined: washingtonpost.com/science/intera…

(also i got to draw lots and lots of leaves!! 🍃🍂)

Some tech notes for the nerds: I built the viz here in plain old canvas/javascript (in React), with a RAF loop for animations: washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

I tried *a lot* of implementations (SVG, P5, animation libs). This was by far the most performant and easiest to manage!

When generative art makes the A1 :)

Sunday's front page was our story on the U.S. life expectancy gap, feat. a print version of the generative rings I built for online.

You can see your own personalized version of this viz in our online story: washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

We're those weirdos.

Our latest: What’s your type? How fonts change the way you read and write.
washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

New piece on the tech used to fell a surprising adversary: the balloon. Learn about the F-22 Raptor, AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile, and even some bespoke wind maps → wapo.st/3kqcOmB

w/ Leslie Shapiro, William Neff , Dan Lamothe, Manuel Canales

The World population has just reached 8 billion people.
Daniel Wolfe Leslie Shapiro Ruby and Hailey Haymond worked on this big visual story that includes a calculator to check how many people like you are int he planet
(I'm one in 367,900)
washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

“Cut Short” by Alyssa Fowers + Leslie Shapiro of the Washington Post reads like a story, introducing a fraction of the 1 million individuals who died of COVID. Claire Santoro's interview explores this powerful work and the choice to visualize #qualitative data nightingaledvs.com/cut-short-visu…

🚗⛽️ Planning to hit the road on Memorial Day weekend? We built a gas calculator that tells you how much you’ll pay at the pump (spoiler alert: it’s a lot more than in pre-covid times!). wapo.st/3LNRGOJ w/ Leslie Shapiro N. Kirkpatrick Kate Rabinowitz

Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the pandemic: what they loved doing and what they wanted to do next. washingtonpost.com/health/interac…

The Post identified 1,550 parents who had been gunned down across 20 cities in 2020, leaving behind 3,621 children.

John Woodrow Cox writes about this often invisible group of sufferers, with graphics by Leslie Shapiro
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…

New: an interactive look at racial demographic change since 1990, for every census tract in the country!

wapo.st/census-race-ch…

New version of a story we first did back in May, looking at the covid case rate when the vaxxed population is factored in.

One big diff: In May, low-vax states were actually looking better than some high-vax states.

With the delta surge, that's over.

washingtonpost.com/health/interac…

new story with D Keating on a seemingly simple but overlooked covid rate issue:

as more people are vaxxed, covid cases/hospitalizations are concentrated among the unvaxxed... which means their risk is actually much greater than general pop rates reflect. washingtonpost.com/health/interac…