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Raising the Bar: Interactive Dashboard Elevates Upward Mobility Data
Raising the Bar: Interactive Dashboard Elevates Upward Mobility Data
The Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative empowers local leaders with data and tools to improve upward mobility from poverty and…
Inspiring Success: New Data Visualization Tool Gives Community Colleges Access to Peer Benchmarking
Inspiring Success: New Data Visualization Tool Gives Community Colleges Access to Peer Benchmarking
Every two years, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (CEP) awards its distinguished $1 million Aspen Prize to the best community…
Reimagining Resources for Excellence in Higher Education
Reimagining Resources for Excellence in Higher Education
The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program supports community colleges in their pursuit of exceptional and equitable student outcomes…
Improving an Extreme Weather Tracking Tool with API Automation
Improving an Extreme Weather Tracking Tool with API Automation
With their online Danger Season tool, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) tracks extreme summer weather worsened by climate change…
Unveiling Inequities: Visualizing Wealth Disparities in America, City by City
Unveiling Inequities: Visualizing Wealth Disparities in America, City by City
The Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School has partnered with Graphicacy to transform their extensive data on…
Bringing Vital Public Health Law and Policy Data to the Masses
Bringing Vital Public Health Law and Policy Data to the Masses
Graphicacy helped Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research revamp their scientific legal mapping tool for global usage.
Revamping Pew’s Fiscal 50 with Dynamic Visualizations
Revamping Pew’s Fiscal 50 with Dynamic Visualizations
To revitalize the Fiscal 50 site and bring it into the modern era, Pew joined forces with Graphicacy to to redesign and develop a…
Visualizing Campaign Contributions
Visualizing Campaign Contributions
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) called on Graphicacy to help convey finance patterns for women candidates during the…
Simplifying Complex Plastics Laws with Data Visualization
Simplifying Complex Plastics Laws with Data Visualization
Graphicacy partnered with the Plastic Pollution Coalition to launch GlobalPlasticLaws.org, making important data more accessible to anyone…
Graphicacy: A Year of Visualizing Change
Graphicacy: A Year of Visualizing Change
Throughout 2023, Graphicacy helped clients visualize a better world with projects focused on ending gun violence, improving gender…
Visualizing the Vital History and Future of HBCUs in America
Visualizing the Vital History and Future of HBCUs in America
Scholar, educator, strategist and fundraiser John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. recruited Graphicacy to create compelling visuals for his new book…
Visualizing Information as Beautiful
Visualizing Information as Beautiful
With two shortlisted projects in competition, Graphicacy came away from the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards inspired and reflective.
From Seeds to Harvest: Visualizing 30 Years of Giving
From Seeds to Harvest: Visualizing 30 Years of Giving
Graphicacy helped the Kendeda Fund explain 30 years of grantmaking with an interactive virtual garden that enlivens the fund’s work
A Visual Story: Raising Women’s Political Voices
A Visual Story: Raising Women’s Political Voices
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) called on Graphicacy to breathe new life into its data reports about donations to women…
Visually Telling the Story of Immigration and Innovation
Visually Telling the Story of Immigration and Innovation
Graphicacy developed dynamic imagery to help the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) showcase the ways skilled immigration fuels American…
Depicting a New Definition of Mass Shootings
Depicting a New Definition of Mass Shootings
Graphicacy partners with Everytown to refocus data around US gun violence with powerful scrollytelling.
A Renewed Focus on Visualizing a Better World
A Renewed Focus on Visualizing a Better World
Graphicacy starts its second decade with a revamped website, an expanded team, and an ongoing drive to tell visual stories that inspire…
Depicting the Need for Systems Change
Depicting the Need for Systems Change
Graphicacy and Outright’s dynamic dashboard enhancements help visualize pathways to improving global systems and sparking bolder action.
Graphicacy Enters 11th Year Focused on Impactful Visualizations
Graphicacy Enters 11th Year Focused on Impactful Visualizations
We closed out our first decade by helping clients address inequality in government, education, gender, and local economies as well as…
A Bold Call to Action Sparked by Data
A Bold Call to Action Sparked by Data
Graphicacy helps Vote Run Lead reveal the vast underrepresentation of women in state legislatures
Visualizing the Complex Dynamics of School Segregation
Visualizing the Complex Dynamics of School Segregation
Graphicacy’s visualization experts transform a complex research theory into a powerful tool for targeting inequity in schools and beyond.
Behind the Build: Data Sketching in R
Behind the Build: Data Sketching in R
Why and how to sketch in code
Visualizing Powerful Data Around College-to-Career Pathways
Visualizing Powerful Data Around College-to-Career Pathways
Graphicacy helped BASTA tell a compelling, data-driven story around the need to reform career readiness for first-generation college…