Data Vis Dispatch, December 5

Even though war is an unpleasant topic, visualizations can help us understand it — and we believe it’s important to show them. On the war between Hamas and Israel, several diagrams this week dealt with damage and displacement in the Gaza Strip:

One article we found deals with the use of words about war and how this could relate to political thinking:

Other visualizations covered Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine:

COP28, the U.N.’s 28th annual climate summit, started on November 30. Not surprisingly, we found a large number of charts about climate change and its main causes — in particular, CO₂:

Carbon emissions and rising temperatures are just the beginning of climate visualization topics. Their effects on the weather and on people were also explored:

The effects of climate change on the agricultural sector deserve their own cluster:

On international routes of migration and trade:

Off to U.S. politics. Spoiler: The U.S. Senate is pretty old:

A very special topic in this week’s economic charts: Where do the little components in our gadgets come from? And what does China have to do with it?:

Money, money, money. An omnipresent topic:

The cities that we live in and travel to starred in two charts this week:

Unsurprising, sad, and always important to remember — violence against women is still a problem around the world:

Let’s move on to something happier — memories in pop culture:

We also learned interesting things about sleep, the origin of country names, and submarines: