Data Vis Dispatch, January 9
Welcome to a new year of Data Vis Dispatches. We are back with the 124th 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 the Alaska and Japan Airlines crashes, elections around the world, and rich people.
After a crash, an Japan Airlines plane burns on the runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on January 2:
But that's not all that's happened on flights this year. An Alaska Airlines flight lost a panel in flight, leaving passengers exposed to a gaping hole in the side of the plane. This affects the Boeing line:
Several visualizations show the current state of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The Ukrainian Pentagon is running out of money, but numbers show Russia's loss of occupied land in Ukraine over the last few months:
This week we found 2 visualizations about rich people. Apparently a small island off the coast of Miami is inhabited by billionaires and it's hard to imagine their wealth:
Elections are a big issue this year for more than half of the world's population that is eligible to vote. More than 4.1 billion people live in countries that will vote in 2024:
From the legislative to the judicial:
In the world of climate visualization, not all news are bad this week:
Other important news from around the world: a terrible earthquake hit Japan the beginning of this year, and aftershocks continued to shake the island for days:
Let's finish with some news from Spain: we found maps on inland migration for work, and El País took a closer look at femicide in Spain and analyzed the perpetrators.
Did we say finish? It wouldn't be a complete first show of the year without our miscellaneous section. Today we have a real estate scandal in Poland and historic moon landings:
What else we found interesting
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