Visualizing Gaza’s aid shortage as ‘man-made’ famine looms

Gaza faces a catastrophic supply shortage. Five months into the conflict, the deficit between the volume of all supplies, including food and medical necessities, that would have entered the Gaza Strip if not for the war and what has actually been received has reached at least half a million tons. Accumulated deficit Truckloads at prewar … Read more

Visualizing death, hunger and displacement in Gaza on a personal scale

About this story Editing by Sam Granados and Reem Akkad. This story shows 472 people, the median estimated size of an American’s social network based on research by Tyler McCormick, Matthew Salganik and Tian Zheng. Their work uses a statistical model that estimates how many people someone knows by name, based on how many people … Read more