About

Glimpse – The Data Lab is an independent data journalism project exploring the world through data.

Glimpse – The Data Lab is founded by Maike Martina Heinrich in 2025 as a data journalism platform that examines complex societal, cultural, and scientific topics through data analysis and narrative writing. The goal is to explore questions that benefit from closer inspection, using evidence to uncover patterns, context, and underlying dynamics.
Rather than focusing on fast news cycles, Glimpse works with data, long-term trends, and structural questions. Articles combine quantitative material with explanatory storytelling, aiming to make complex subjects more understandable without reducing their nuance. The platform publishes selectively and prioritizes depth over frequency.
Glimpse is interested in how data can illuminate systems, whether in technology, policy, science or social change, and how analytical thinking can contribute to clearer public conversations.

Maike Martina Heinrich is a journalist, data scientist and political scientist with a background in healthcare strategy.

Her work focuses on combining quantitative methods with qualitative insight to better understand complex systems, public policy and technological change.