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Women and children!Speeches at the United Nations General Debate use language in many different ways. Together with Agustina Nahas, we created a data story exploring a recurring phrase in UNGA81 speeches: “women and children”.
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TeamAgustina Nahas and Macarena Zappe
Type of workResearch, Data Visualization, Scrollytelling
Year2026
ToolsGoogle Big Query, Figma, React, D3.js

 The process involved collecting speeches, reviewing academic literature, developing an analytical framework, identifying key insights, and shaping the visual approach.

I led the development of the research framework and visual approach, while Agustina Nahas was responsible for data scraping and website development.

The result is Women and Children, a data-scrolling website exploring how this phrase is used in speeches at the United Nations General Debate.


References
Given the outdated framework underlying the selected speeches, we thought a visual language that could convey the notion of tradition and repetition over time. Inspired by a bordereau, we developed a data design unit that used cross-stitch to visualise the patterns we found in the speeches.










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Let’s collaborate
  macarena.zappe@gmail.com