Relying on the intersection of data science and arts provides new outlooks and improves information flows in the socialization of policies for equal opportunities and open dialogue.

In the fight against fake-news, the designer and filmmaker Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis developed PolitiTruth: a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction in the United States.

What do countries feel towards the US president? Datasketch discovered it after analyzing nearly 60.000 headlines.

This week's must read #ddj  article is run by the Washington Post, whose Fact-Checker team set out to compile and analyze President Donald Trump's claim to see how many lies he has said throughout  his first 100 days in the White House.

Although his political decisions appear to be revolutionary and disruptive, Latino, European, and Asian presidents have taken similar measures during their mandates.

What key patterns and factors throughout history have proven useful in forecasting the winner of the US presidential elections? What big data analytics are useful in measuring the success of the Clinton and Trump social network campaigns? Guillermo Valencia, from Macrowise tell us how this questions will be critical in predicting who will be the next president of the United States.

Bad design decisions may cause confusion or even mislead. This is another example of a bad color scale selection that leads to false conclusions when interpreting information on a choropleth map.

The data shows that Mossack Fonseca worked with over 14,000 banks, firms, companies, foundations, funds or clients to create offshore entities. ICIJ used the country categorization contained in the leaked internal client database to describe how many intermediaries in each country existed.