Data Vis Dispatch, October 1
October 2nd, 2024
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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 137th edition of Data Vis Dispatch! Every week, we’ll be publishing a collection of the best small and large data visualizations we find, especially from news organizations — to celebrate data journalism, data visualization, simple charts, elaborate maps, and their creators.
Recurring topics this week include the earthquake in Taiwan, Canada, and the start of the #30DayChartChallenge.
It’s April, so the #30DayChartChallenge has begun! Here are some of our favorite pieces from this week:
The other special event of the week: Monday’s solar eclipse over North America. Many people traveled to the path of totality:
We also saw more direct maps of the eclipse’s path:
On April 3, the earth trembled as a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan:
While a much smaller — but very unusual — earthquake shook the northeastern United States:
Iran and its allied groups were back in the spotlight this week after an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus:
And we continue with news from Gaza, where Israeli attacks have damaged nearly 100 hospitals and hundreds of thousands are suffering from starvation-level hunger:
Political topics included constitutional rights in Thailand and local elections in Poland:
Consumer prices are going up — thought that might not be such a bad thing in the case of cigarettes:
Meanwhile, India’s gross domestic product could soon overtake China’s:
What do eels have to do with the economy of Canada — and did you know that rivers hide beneath the surface of its cities?
After last week’s collision in Baltimore, ships were still very much in the news, from the search for alternative ports to the construction of giant aircraft carriers:
Gendered job titles are on their way out… but so is sex education in many U.S. states:
Drum roll for the last section, on nuclear weapons in Europe and water reserves in Spain:
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