Data Vis Dispatch, December 27

This is the last Dispatch of 2022! Several newsrooms looked back on their work from the past year:

Another year-end preoccupation: snow, especially snow on Christmas.

Of course, winter isn’t just about snow — it’s also cold and dark:

Plus, The New York Times looked back on the 10th anniversary of their “Snow Fall” visual story:

Meanwhile, the winter season is bringing several country’s healthcare systems to a breaking point:

Several charts looked at inequality and low wages:

Two illustrations focused specifically on rising food prices:

Other end-of-year economic stories included high interest rates and the collapse of cryptocurrencies:

Millions of Ukrainians are without heat or power after Russian attacks on their infrastructure:

Meanwhile, western Europe continues to close nuclear power plants and Russia looks for new trade routes around sanctions:

With midterms barely behind us, U.S. political charts are already starting to look ahead to the 2024 presidential race:

This week served up several angles on plant and animal diversity:

And other charts covered everything from the music of 2022 to impressively long careers: