Data Vis Dispatch, February 11: Super Bowl, minerals, and Baltic states
February 11th, 2025
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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 108th 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 moon, hurricanes, and Republicans.
We begin with some exciting news. India landed on the moon — and it’s the first landing close to the south pole ever:
That same evening, the first Republican debate of what will be a long U.S. election season took place:
As summer begins to cool in the Western Hemisphere, newsrooms took another look at the record heat caused by climate change:
Among the consequences of climate change visualized this week are drought and wildfires:
And it’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. As we’re writing this, Hurricane Idalia is making her way toward the Florida coast:
Another big topic this week: Infrastructure. How much are people traveling around, and under which conditions? Newsrooms visualized it all:
The war in the Ukraine was also a big focus this week thanks to stories about the crashed jet of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, emigration, and grain exports:
Apropos grain and immigrants – our economics section covers both, too:
And our miscellaneous section has everything from vultures, tides, cannabis, book bans, to Canadian gun crime:
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