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Data Vis Dispatch, February 13
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 129th 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 war, football, and Valentine’s Day.
Unsurprisingly, football — both kinds — was the subject of many charts this week:
But the fun pretty much stops there. This week also saw visualizations of killing, displacement, and destruction in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as simmering conflict over oil in Iran and Guyana:
The past twelve months were the first ever to register 1.5 degrees of warming from global pre-industrial averages. Avoiding that threshold is the basis of the 2015 Paris Agreement:
Around the world, climate politics are often seen as a young person’s issue. But young voters don’t reject conservative parties so much as they do one Conservative Party:
Economic charts this week covered corporate strategy and cost of living issues:
Including not one, but three visualizations on the costs of Valentine’s Day:
What else we found interesting
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