Investigate Midwest is a data-centric newsroom. Our weekly Data Harvests aim to visualize key agricultural statistics, and our investigative stories are often rooted in original data analysis. Of the ...

"A different future is possible if newsrooms treat data projects as conversations rather than finished products." ...

In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them ...

This shift from data visualization to data communication needs a more balanced approach to how we design for data, and we need an extended skill set to equip the next generation of data communicators ...

It’s not a story about wonky statistics. It’s about America’s reliability as a borrower of trillions of dollars, something that underpins our global economy. The internal watchdog for the Department ...

Investment into AI data center development is exponentially increasing: in June 2025, Amazon announced a $20 billion investment into AI data center campuses in Pennsylvania alone, and in July 2025, ...

What happens when people stop trusting their government's economic data? Planet Money's Mary Childs reports on what happened in Greece. President Trump's pick of a political ally, E.J. Antoni, to head ...

Trump fired the labor statistics commissioner hours after a weak jobs report. President Donald Trump thrust the nation's system for economic data collection into the spotlight in recent days after he ...

Today’s consumers expect more than just functional brand interactions. They expect intelligent, personalized experiences delivered in real time. According to McKinsey, 71% of consumers expect ...