Data Vis Dispatch, April 5

The war in Ukraine continues. This week, several maps focused on Russian troops’ retreat from the Kyiv region:

Other maps of the military situation are shown here in chronological order:

Meanwhile, 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country as refugees and over 7 million are internally displaced:

Some visualizations looked at cultural responses to the war, both in Ukraine and abroad:

And these charts tried to predict the war’s effect on Russian society:

In Hungary, the ruling Fidesz party won another landslide victory, in part thanks to a biased parliamentary map:

Meanwhile, in the U.S., the current round of congressional gerrymandering may actually result in a less biased map overall:

Other political topics included the careers of French presidential candidates and budget earmarks in the U.S.:

Housing got the spotlight this week, with maps of architectural history in Milwaukee and corporate landlords in Charlotte, and a chart on gender inequality in San Francisco:

These charts looked at consumer waste from two unusual perspectives — music storage formats and recycled snack bags:

And typical energy and climate topics got some attention as well:

COVID rates are nearing an all-time high in the U.K. — and fully vaccinated people in Switzerland now have a case rate as high as the unvaccinated:

Other maps and charts looked at everything from a plane crash in China to minimum wage in the Global South to the cost of a slice of pizza in New York: