Data Vis Dispatch, February 20

The #DuBoisChallenge2024 is a tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois, who changed the way that African Americans were viewed through a series of impactful data visualizations. Here is a recreation of one of his charts:

After more than 130 days of war in the Gaza Strip, we found visualizations of the killed, missing, and displaced; the increasing threat to the city of Rafah; and Egypt’s efforts to build a buffer zone on its border:

With the death of Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony, Putin’s way of governing came into focus this week:

Remember the first Dispatch of 2024 talking about a global year of elections? Here we have national elections in Indonesia and regional ones in Galicia:

Other political visualizations covered the social media behavior of Argentina’s president, democracies at risk, and U.S. and Chinese activities off the coast of Taiwan:

We still can’t stop creating clusters of small multiples:

But with all our love for the small multiple line chart, let’s not forget its older sibling, the simple but effective line chart:

Line charts can even be used in an experimental way to decode a national anthem:

Two data visualizations featured real estate loans and transactions:

This week was all about sports, especially the rise of Caitlin Clark as the face of women’s basketball:

Finally, a shoutout to the Washington Post for two beautiful visualizations of Americans’ class perceptions and NASA’s Mars rover tracking: