Our World In Data

Explaining the world's biggest problems with data

Technologies
python, mysql, d3, typescript, pandas
Topics
open data, data visualisation, Data cataloging
Explaining the world's biggest problems with data
Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering in the world. We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in academic papers. The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable.

Projects

Contributor
Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy
Mentor
Daniel Bachler, ikesau
Organization
Our World In Data
Cartograms in Grapher
Our World in Data (OWID) strives to make knowledge of global problems accessible and understandable through interactive geographical data...
Contributor
Karthik Krishna
Mentor
Daniel Gavrilov, Daniel Bachler
Organization
Our World In Data
Adding annotated observations to World maps
World maps serve as a key entryway for inexperienced and new users at Our World in Data. They are especially impactful in crafting a striking image...