Look Around the Room
Every figure represents one person in thirty. Tap the dimmed ones. They aren't failures — they're patterns shaped by the systems we chose.
Switch between five Foundation components. Tap any dimmed figure to meet the person behind the statistic.
About This Visualization
The isotype grid — human figures representing proportional counts — was developed by Otto Neurath in the 1920s as a way to make statistics legible to people who’d been excluded from data. It was designed for exactly this: making the scale of social conditions visible without requiring statistical literacy.
Each composite story is drawn from real data, real interviews, and documented conditions in Oklahoma and across the country. The names are fictional. The situations are not.
The five components shown here — Education, Mental Health, Housing, Healthcare, and Food — are among the sixteen components of the Foundation framework. They’re shown together because they’re not actually separate problems. A child who is hungry cannot learn. A worker who can’t afford healthcare cannot stay employed. A family without stable housing cannot plan for anything. The figures overlap because the conditions do.
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Built by Æ for Humanity and AI. Sources: NCES · SAMHSA · NLIHC · Census Bureau ACS · USDA Economic Research Service · Feeding America.