Polygraph

In 2022, YouTube began implementing its own version of Google Doodles. We utilized their unique data to identify trends and presented them in a fresh format that resembles an article from The Pudding, condensed into a short, informative video.

Since 2020, we have transformed the LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Institute's powerful data science research into a series of five digestible visual essays for policymakers and users.

In May 2020, a recording of George Floyd's death ignited a week-long protest in Minneapolis, which escalated into a summer of historic demonstrations across the country. Polygraph partnered with Google and The Washington Post to create a project visualizing these protests.

Universal Music Group wanted to highlight their artists' global reach by showcasing their impressive data catalog, so we created a real-time visualization for the lobby of their headquarters and other offices around the world.

We collaborated with the Climate Impact Lab to analyze Rhodium Group’s groundbreaking climate research and create an editorially driven, standalone microsite explaining the impact of flooding in New Jersey.

Using search data about players, teams, and matches, we collaborated with Google Trends during the 2024 Women's World Cup to produce a real-time, short-form series recapping major moments from the tournament.

We partnered with NHPR's investigative team, Document, to analyze 1,281 court documents related to alleged child abuse at New Hampshire's youth facilities. Explore the staggering scale and detail of one of the largest youth detention abuse scandals in American history.

Our first physical installation, The Pudding's breakdown of women's issues within political party platforms was featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Women's Suffrage exhibit in 2019.

After SiriusXM expanded its podcast offerings, they asked us to create an innovative tool—primarily for the sales department—to highlight their catalog and listener demographics.

We visualized daily search insights related to the 2024 Paralympics throughout the games, featuring an automatic data pipeline in the backend, custom icons, and an updated version of the Alternative Medals Table.

In partnership with The DataFace, we analyzed United Nations / PRME's rigorous i5 curriculum and created a digital playbook for members to teach in their institutions.

We identified 2018’s rising words by ranking search interest growth for their definitions (e.g., searches for “woke definition,” “define woke”). This project was also the subject of an NBC video series.

We worked with the Guttmacher Institute to reimagine their Monthly Abortion Provision Study dashboard, merging an interactive narrative with a regularly updating dashboard of regional abortion data.

Minecraft became the first topic to hit one trillion views on YouTube. To celebrate, we collaborated with longtime partners Culture & Trends to create a unique experience commemorating the milestone, the game's 10th anniversary, and the creators and videos fueling its popularity.

In our second collaboration with the Climate Impact Lab and Rhodium Group, we translated new research from a PDF into an impactful experience that visualizes the projected effects of rising heat on global death rates.

We analyzed a dataset of over 6,000 Americans surveyed in the weeks leading up to and following the 2020 election, displaying the results in a clear and organized dashboard of election issues, broken down by region, topic, and political leaning.

We built a comprehensive data storytelling platform for the Kennedy School, featuring a scalable CMS and innovative layering of complex information to make Harvard's academic research more accessible to policymakers and the general public.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX with Google Trends, we celebrated monumental figures in the WNBA brought to life through search data.

Using IBM Watson, we analyzed decades of Dear Abby advice column letters to produce a comprehensive visual analysis of what Americans worried about over the years.