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Electoral Dating

Swipe right for tax cuts? Left for climate action? This interactive tool gamifies political engagement by transforming 6,000+ policy measures into a dating app experience for Portuguese voters. Using AI and data analysis, we created a 56-dimensional matching algorithm that makes discovering your political match fun and accessible.

GPS - The Great Poll Portal

Can data predict who will win the next election? This interactive forecast model for Portugal's 2025 legislative elections combines 200+ socioeconomic indicators with historical voting patterns to simulate 10,000+ electoral scenarios.

Make Your Own School Ranking

We've transformed comprehensive Ministry of Education data into a customizable algorithm where users adjust six critical factors according to their personal priorities.

Brain Waste

Cross-border investigation with Lighthouse Reports, El País, FT, and Unbias The News analyzing exclusive Eurostat microdata to expose the reality of qualified immigrants struggling with diploma recognition.

What we know (and don't know) about immigration in Portugal

Innovative scrollytelling experience that cuts through immigration myths by presenting dual perspectives: one backed by solid data, the other highlighting critical knowledge gaps.

Where Does Three-Quarters of European Party Funding Come From? No one knows

Cross-border investigation with 25 European newsrooms (including The Guardian, El País, and Papertrail Media) coordinated by Follow the Money that tracked private donations to EU political parties.

Orange Current, Populist Hurricane — and a Left that Didn't Even Catch the Breeze

Interactive analysis of Portugal's 2025 electoral winds that showed populist right becoming the second-largest political force, with AD winning but needing Chega or PS to govern.

Leitão Amaro's Claim About Portugal's Immigrant Population is False

Fact-checking report debunking the Portuguese minister's statement that Portugal has one of Europe's highest percentages of immigrants, with data showing 15% compared to Luxembourg's 51.2% and Switzerland's 31.2%.

Portuguese School Rankings 2024

Podcast: How data viz is changing the news

Podcast interview with Alberto Cairo about the role of data visualization in journalism and the state of the field in Portugal and Spain.

Over 4.6 Million Days of Absence: SNS Absenteeism Decreases But Remains High

Analysis of Portugal's National Health Service workforce absence trends, showing 4.6 million missing workdays between January-November 2024, with illness accounting for 46% and parental leave for 30.4% of absences.

USA in Ten Charts: A Portrait of America at the Polls

Interactive visualization analyzing key factors in the 2024 US presidential election between Trump and Harris, including economic trends, energy consumption, immigration, hate crimes, and abortion rights.

Supplements, Education, Nurses: The Words That Define Portugal's 2025 State Budget

Textual analysis of Portugal's 2025 State Budget revealing key policy priorities through language patterns, highlighting increases in military/police supplements, education reforms, and healthcare workforce agreements.

Humanities or STEM, Public or Private: Discover What Weighs More in Student Grades

Interactive machine learning analysis using decision trees to predict Portuguese exam scores based on student age, course type, school characteristics, and socioeconomic factors from 78,000 exam results.

Almost 10% of Portugal's Government Program is About Environmental Issues

Computational analysis of Portugal's government program showing nearly 10% of text dedicated to environmental and energy transition issues, comparing word frequencies and policy priorities across four prime ministers using NLP techniques.

Government Anatomy in Six Charts: Older, Less Lisbon-Based, Law Graduates

Data visualization analysis of Montenegro's government composition showing it maintains the tradition of law graduates as ministers while being the least centralized since 1974, with only three ministers born in Lisbon.

Orange Breezes and Populist Gusts: The Winds That Change Portugal's Political Map

Interactive analysis of Portugal's 2024 legislative elections showing how center-right AD achieved victory while populist Chega grew in all municipalities and the left fragmented, ending the Socialist Party's 2022 absolute majority.

How Was the Planet When You Were Born?

Interactive climate visualization allowing users to input their birth date and see how climate conditions, temperatures, and environmental indicators have changed throughout their lifetime, contextualizing personal experience with planetary climate evolution.

Simulator: See How Much You Can Reduce Your Mortgage Payment with Euribor Rate Freezing

Interactive mortgage payment calculator allowing Portuguese homeowners to simulate potential savings from the government's Euribor rate freezing measure, which caps rates at 70% of the six-month Euribor for 24 months.

Healthcare Protests: António Costa Faces His Second-Worst Year in Eight Years of Governance

Data analysis of healthcare strikes in Portugal's SNS showing 155,000 days of absences from January to September 2023, making it the second-highest level of healthcare worker protests during Costa's eight-year tenure.

By August, Doctors Alone Had Already Worked Over 4.3 Million Hours of Overtime

Analysis of SNS overtime data showing doctors worked 4.3 million extra hours by August 2023, with total healthcare staff completing 11 million overtime hours at a cost of €302 million, highlighting chronic understaffing issues.

How Much Will You Receive with the New State Housing Credit Support? Try the Simulation

Interactive calculator for Portugal's enhanced government housing loan support (interest rate subsidies), allowing users to simulate eligibility and potential benefits based on income, loan amount, and effort rate criteria.