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Data Vis Dispatch, January 28: Snowfall, astronauts, and electricity
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Vivien Serve
Welcome back to the 178th edition of the Data Vis Dispatch! Every week, we publish 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 freezing cold temperatures, astronauts, and clean electricity.
Submarine cables span the globe, and countries depend on their functioning. Recently, their sabotage has become more present:
The past week featured diverse visualizations in the environmental cluster. First: sustainability goals for organic farmland and CO₂ absorption and emission:
Certainly, visualizations about the U.S., and especially the decisions of the Trump administration and the people affected by them, won’t stop anytime soon:
Social media influenced the election and was an issue in the election. It only makes sense that social media is popping up more and more in the visualization world:
A quick excursion into German politics, where several demonstrations against the extreme right are planned in the course of the upcoming federal elections:
You know what sometimes is fun in data visualization? Charting people, be they astronauts, famous soccer players, or everyday people. And it is even more fun when we can find ourselves in them:
What do single-parent hotspots, rising jerky prices in Malaysia, and tourist apartments in Spain have in common? We don’t know … yet, but they deserve to be listed here:
Reuters: Cozy Comfort, January 27Jan Willem Tulp: “End of last year I had a lot of fun with a #sideproject creating an oil painting simulation that paints a photo you upload. Still lots of improvements possible, but quite alright results. (video sped up 8x),” January 24 (Bluesky)
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(she/her) is a working student on Datawrapper’s Communications team. She creates the Data Vis Dispatch to keep data visualization enthusiasts up to date on exciting new projects. When she’s not working, she studies interface design, and when she’s not studying, she’s planning a festival stage or soldering light installations. Vivien lives in Potsdam.
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