Data Vis Dispatch, January 16

On January 13, the Taiwanese people elected their new president: previous Vice President Lai of the DPP party, associated with Taiwanese independence. We found visualizations that followed the election process and the risks of direct confrontation with China:

Two visualizations covered the current situation in Ukraine. Russia has intensified its missile attacks and strict curfews continue.

Now 100 days into the war between Israel and Hamas, the conflict has expanded to several other countries. On Friday and Saturday, the U.S. and U.K. carried out dozens of airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, who had attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea and Suez Canal:

We also saw visualizations showing the impact of this important, now restricted, shipping route:

Shipping accounts for 80% of global world trade. But it’s not uncommon for a freight container to go missing:

Immigration was a major topic this week:

Internal migration even seems so important that it could influence this year’s presidential election in the U.S.:

This week’s climate visualizations all revolve around one big, alarming, piece of news — 2023 was the hottest year on record, and not by a small margin:

High temperatures change patterns in snowfall and wildfire:

Last week’s airline disasters are still keeping newsrooms busy. We found further investigations into the specific aircraft whose door plug failed:

With the Golden Globe Awards and the postponed Emmy Awards taking place, it’s no wonder that these visualizations about movies were in the script this week:

We close this week with a colorful set of visualizations showing consumption spending, the world’s lovliest languages, and African Cup of Nations teams.