Justice Means Transparency

Justice Data Portfolio

I created the genocide data portfolio to shed light on data capturing the sheer inhumanity associated with different conflicts across the world, which amount to genocide.

From the ICE deportation crisis in the U.S. since the beginning of the second Trump administration in 2025 to the uneven Gaza "War" which began after the October 7 attacks, the world has seen the human toll of reckless ideologies that promote inhumanity.

Such ideologies are a direct result of political polarization, which has emerged as a consequence of the prominence of social media algorithms in shaping the minds of their users.

My hope for this set of dashboards is not only to serve as a professional portfolio of data products that make news articles and data on genocidal events worldwide more accessible to a broader audience, but also to help users tangibly understand the intersections between different conflicts globally. These products also serve to show the negative impacts of the world remaining silent on the plight of people subject to genocidal disputes across the globe, especially as numerous internal conflicts in many nations essentially amount to genocide, which is still often assumed to be a rare and exclusive term when, in material reality, it is more common than we believe it to be.

Finally, as a Filipino American, I consider the fact that Filipino scholar, Luzviminda Francisco, discovered the deflation of figures regarding the American genocide of the Philippines, which occurred during the first years of the Philippine-American War (1898 - 1913), especially negatively impacting the native lands of the Agta and Southern Tagalog peoples in Southern Luzon. Though official American accounting for the number of civilian deaths during this conflict still officially stands at 250,000, Luzviminda Francisco uncovered documentation, and other accounts, in the 1960's and 1970's (well after the end of both this conflict and the formal American colonization of the Philippines as a whole) which proved that these official figures were a gravely negligent undercount, with the scope of deaths actually amounting to 1.4 million people across the Philippines (or 1/6th of the total native population of the Philippines).

This context presents, to me, a deontological moral imperative to use the skills that I have been learning in uncovering, manipulating, and gaining insights from data to shed light on the plight of those facing genocide across the world to ensure data transparency for their respective plights, especially those in the Global South where a lack of accountability and transparency (as well as immoral obfuscation of the facts on the ground) often result in instances, like in the Philippines, where the true scope of the human toll of conflict is either lost to history or discovered far too late for true justice to be given to the direct victims of such atrocities.

Palestinian Civilians Killed Since October 7

I collected this data from the Tech for Palestine initiative, which provides ongoing time-series data on official death counts and other statistical measures in Palestine.

Since the ceasefire in early October 2025, the official death toll in Gaza (which only accounts for direct, observed deaths counted by the Palestinian Authority) has plateaued, but not before well over 160,000 direct Palestinian injuries and well over 67,000 direct Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli Occupation Forces, with both counts continuing to grow.

The first dashboard outlines the cumulative impacts of the Gaza War (the iteration of genocide beginning on October 7, 2023, until the present), while the second dashboard shows the number of Palestinians killed or injured in Gaza, as well as the number of buildings destroyed or damaged in Gaza.

Recent Media Mentions of Globally Marginalized Groups

To collect this data, I scraped several Google queries to find news headlines that mention various globally marginalized groups within the last month.

Generally, we see that the BBC, Reuters, and CNN mostly report on news about the Palestinian, Darfurian, Kivutian, and Rohingya peoples. Among these three groups, there is far more reporting on the Palestinian people. In contrast, the proportion of reporting on the genocide in Darfur (and Sudan as a whole) has increased in proportion as of November 2025. Meanwhile, relatively few reports mention the Kivutian and Rohingya peoples, despite the ongoing struggles they face.

Police Murders in the US Since 2013

Data on police-involved murders were used to draft this dashboard, which shows details about the date of each murder, demographic information about victims, and names of the officers involved, a relevant article URL about each death, and a photo of the victim whenever these details are available.

As we see here, less than half of all murders involved a white suspect, while around a quarter of suspects were Black. Meanwhile, a proportional amount of Latino suspects were tracked, while figures for Native American and Pacific Islander suspects were slightly below their respective proportions among the U.S. population. Finally, figures for Asian Americans were compared to their proportion of the U.S. population.

Note that "Unknown race" is prevalent in cases where departments may want to conceal racial demographic details about victims due to possible controversy and civil unrest.

Government Killings of Civilians Since WWII

Since 1945, events such as the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, the anti-communist extrajudicial killings in South Korea, and genocides in Rwanda and Sudan have occurred. During the post-war period until 2020, 26.55 million Chinese citizens were killed as a result of government action during the Cultural Revolution, while 21 million Chinese civilians were killed during the Chinese Civil War. Meanwhile, multiple conflicts in Sudan, including the Second Sudanese Civil War, resulted in over 300,000 deaths in Sudan during this time period.

ICE Deportations

This data comes from official sources on the number of ICE deportations that have occurred since the beginning of the Trump administration, up to May 28, 2025. During this time period, the vast majority of deportations involved non-violent civilians, with well below 1% of deportations involving civilians accused of drug and other criminal charges. During this time period, children as young as infants were deported.

BLS Wage Data 2024

This dashboard utilizes data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to visualize various salary and wage metrics by industry in the United States. We notice that professional workers (e.g., doctors, lawyers) have the highest maximum wages, while financial professionals have the highest median wages.