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Data Vis Dispatch
February 14th, 2023

Data Vis Dispatch, February 14

The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations

Photo of Veronika Halamková, data vis writer at Datawrapper
Veronika Halamková

Welcome back to the 81st 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 earthquakes, climate change, and a basketball record.

The aftermath of last week’s tragic earthquakes in Turkey and Syria continues to bring up questions and analyses: how strong were the earthquakes, how extensive, and how many tremors followed?

Reuters: Rupture, February 10
The Washington Post: How the earthquake in Turkey and Syria compares with other deadly tremors, February 10
The Financial Times: Turkey and Syria’s devastating earthquakes in graphics, February 9
South China Morning Post: Turkey-Syria earthquake: rescue efforts move slowly as death toll passes 5,000, February 7
The Washington Post: How big was the Turkey-Syria earthquake?, February 8
The Wall Street Journal: Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: A Guide in Maps and Graphics, February 9
ZEIT ONLINE: Zerstörung, die kaum zu fassen ist, February 9

Snow cover across Switzerland is currently well below its 30-year average. In Antarctica, glacier ice continues to melt and slip into the ocean, raising sea levels around the world, and Senegal’s Saint-Louis is one of the cities at the climate front line.

SRF: So viel Schnee fehlt in der Schweiz – und weitere Grafiken, February 9
ZEIT ONLINE: Demnächst als Meeresspiegelanstieg auch in Ihrer Nähe, February 11
NPR: Disappearing Saint-Louis, February 13

High costs of energy have had very different effects, forcing most people to save on basic needs while earning record profits for oil and gas companies.

El País: ¿Qué ahorra más: tres días de teletrabajo o usar coche eléctrico? Las mejores medidas para bajar la factura energética, February 12
The Financial Times: What Big Oil’s bumper profits mean for the energy transition, February 10

Finally, some good news from the world of sports: LeBron James broke an NBA record for the highest all-time score, more than 33 years after it was set by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The Washington Post: How the NBA scoring record evolved from Wilt to Kareem to LeBron, February 8
The New York Times: How LeBron James Outscored Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and All the N.B.A. Greats, February 7
Folha de S.Paulo: Firme dos 18 aos 38, LeBron James quebrou recorde com força e durabilidade, February 8
SPIEGEL: LeBron James knackt NBA-Rekord – seine Karriere in Grafiken, February 8

Political news covered Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, the U.S. president’s annual message to the Congress, a repeated state election in Berlin, Germany, and the course of the war in Ukraine.

The Washington Post: The words that hadn’t been said in a State of the Union until Biden said them, February 7
The New York Times: A Close Look at the Chaotic House Republican Majority, February 10
Berliner Morgenpost: Ergebnisse der Wahl-Wiederholung in Berlin: So hat Ihr Kiez gestimmt, February 13
ZEIT ONLINE: Alle Ergebnisse der Berliner Wiederholungswahl, February 12
The Outlier: Women in power, February 8
The New York Times: The War’s Violent Next Stage, February 10
PBS: War Crimes Watch Ukraine, February 14

Other themes of this week’s charts include tech company layoffs and the rise of streaming services.

USA Today: Massive tech company layoffs look ugly. But it may not be as bad as you think, February 7
NEXO: As demissões em massa no mercado de tecnologia no mundo, February 7
The Economist: Disney will cut 7,000 jobs as it restructures its business, February 8

What else we found interesting

Reuters: Searching for life in the rubble, February 9

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Photo of Veronika Halamková, data vis writer at Datawrapper
Veronika Halamková
(she/her, @v_halamkova) was a data vis writer in the Communications team between 2022 and 2023. She lives in Berlin and created and wrote beautiful data visualizations. Before Datawrapper, she worked in the data team at Tortoise Media.

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