The full catalogue of scrollytelling pieces, visual essays, and data reports from Vizmaya Labs — geopolitics, technology, demographics, and the slow variables that explain the fast headlines.
How a strait reprices a GPU hour.
Americans are moving out fast. But out of the country's 10 most livable states, only one is gaining wealth at scale. A map of who's trading up, who's trading down, and the two states that break every rule.
RSF's 2026 World Press Freedom Index ranks 180 countries on five pressures applied to journalism. The map didn't move evenly — Syria leapt 36 places, Niger fell 37, and most of the world's traditional leaders kept slipping.
FIFA's expansion to forty-eight teams turned the World Cup roster into a representative slice of the world. Sort the squad sheet by something other than ranking, and a different tournament emerges.
Ten large-country currencies have gained double digits against the U.S. dollar in the twelve months to April 2026. The ranking is less a story about them than about what the dollar is no longer doing.
When the world's biggest military belongs to a country most people don't think of as a military power.
The UN's medium-fertility projection says the world will add 1.4 billion people by 2050 — and almost all of them live on one continent.
Across 30 European countries, the share of people living in houses has bent downward for a decade. On the current trajectory, apartments overtake houses as the continent's default home sometime in the 2030s.
On May 4, 2026, the BJP won West Bengal for the first time. Two stories explain how, and both are partly true.
In 2026 the IMF's ranking of the twenty largest economies is sorted almost in reverse of how the world was ranked fifty years ago — and the old powers are clustered at the bottom.
OpenAI is building 9 gigawatts of AI infrastructure across seven US sites. Three years in, only one is running. The map of where Stargate is being built is really a map of where you can plug in fastest.
Norway leads AI use at 56 percent. Cyprus leads social media at 98. Two digital waves spread at very different speeds — but they share the same map: Northern Europe and the Balkans on top, Germany and Italy at the bottom.
On April 17, 2026, the Lok Sabha voted on a constitutional amendment that would have redrawn India's electoral map for the first time in fifty years.