Data Vis Lists, 2024

Happy New Year! While our regular Data Vis Dispatch is still on holiday break, we’ve collected plenty of lists highlighting the best data visualizations of 2024. They celebrate data journalism, data visualization, simple charts, elaborate maps, and their creators from the past year, as we like to do it. We’ve gathered them all in one place for you to explore.

Recurring topics include — well — you have to go through the lists for that.

First up: existing lists of the best data visualizations of 2024, created by organizations and individuals to highlight outstanding charts, maps, and data journalism from the past year:

The Pudding Cup and Visual Capitalist crowned their favorite data visualizations of 2024 with awards:

Many newsrooms, companies, and individuals presented portfolios of their own visualizations from the past year:

Other lists focus on visualizations that help explain (data journalism in) 2024:

Finally, we at Datawrapper haven’t been lazy either and have written two articles looking back at 2024. What visualizations did Datawrapper users create? What were our own favorite news visualizations? And with that: Happy New Year!

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