Data Vis Dispatch, July 25
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 103rd 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 college admissions, “Barbenheimer,” and the Spanish elections.
Get ready for a long Dispatch this week — Sunday was a general election in Spain ! There were trackers and maps of the overall results:
El País: Elecciones Generales 2023 El Confidencial: Resultados elecciones generales 23J The New York Times: Resultados de las elecciones generales de España elDiario: Los resultados de las elecciones generales del 23J, municipio a municipio El Confidencial: Los resultados de las elecciones generales en España, calle a calle There was the question of overall ideological swing :
El País: Datos y gráficos para entender el 23-J: Cataluña, el voto exterior y una vuelta a 2019 elDiario: De izquierda o derecha: los resultados del 23J por bloques ideológicos, municipio a municipio El País: ¿Quién va a ganar las elecciones? Esto dicen las encuestas There were predictions, and later analyses, of viable coalition outcomes:
El País: La victoria de la izquierda y otras sorpresas posibles, según las encuestas Resultados de las elecciones generales de España Spanish voters belong to geographical constituencies, which brings up the issue of strategic and “wasted” votes :
El País: Los escaños más disputados y en juego en cada provincia elDiario: La batalla por el último escaño de cada provincia, en directo: quién puede ganar un diputado y quién lo pierde El Confidencial: La batalla por el último escaño: el escrutinio, en directo El País: ¿Voto estratégico? Los escaños en juego en cada provincia según las encuestas elDiario: Los votos perdidos: Sumar es el partido más perjudicado por el sistema electoral con 600.000 votos sin representación And we already saw some early analyses of voting behavior :
elDiario: La demografía del 23J: así vota cada grupo social en las elecciones generales El Confidencial: La participación en cada municipio: consulta si ha subido o bajado en tu ciudad elDiario: Votantes infieles: cómo han cambiado de partido quienes apoyaron a PSOE, PP, Unidas Podemos, Vox y Cs en 2019
Meanwhile — it’s hot. We saw several great maps tackle the problem of showing a heat crisis that’s happening almost all around the world at once :
The Wall Street Journal: The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat El País: Calor extremo y global: crónica de los días más tórridos del planeta The Washington Post: Inside the most extreme heat wave the Southern U.S. has faced Steven Bernard / Financial Times: “NEW: This week’s climate graphic focuses on the extreme heat over the US, southern Europe and China, caused by the ‘wavenumber 5’ jet stream pattern and heat domes. First time combining two data sets in one animation Read @CamillaHodgson’s report,” July 20 (Tweet Article The New York Times: Tracking Heat Across the World Financial Times: What we get wrong when we talk about global warming CBC News: How hot and humid will your city be in the future? Financial Times: How will global warming affect the crops that we grow? Lots of places are dangerously hot; only some of them are actually on fire :
Reuters: Canadian wildfires burning land at record pace The New York Times: How Canada’s Record Wildfires Got So Bad, So Fast
Ok, back to fun stuff. Sporting events this week included the Women’s World Cup, the Tour de France , and a multimodal, journalists-only race from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore :
Why U.S. Players Will Get the Most Prize Money, Even if They Lose Le Monde: Le Tour de France Femmes 2023 commence ce dimanche, voici les moments forts à ne pas rater The New York Times: Watch Amateurs Race Against the Tour de France’s Top Climbers (Sort Of) The Philadelphia Inquirer: The Race to the Shore Purple was this week’s color for charts:
The Washington Post: The yarn crafts most likely to fail by season and type CNN: United States tops 400 mass shootings in 2023 Frankfurter Allgemeine: Deutschlands Wohnungsnot The Pudding: Women are superstars on stage, but still rarely get to write And other maps covered everything from the danger of an oil spill in the Red Sea to broken promises in New York real estate :
The Wall Street Journal: The Race to Avert an Oil Spill That Could Cost $20 Billion to Fix Folha de S.Paulo: Veja as taxas dos principais registros de crimes em seu estado The New York Times: New Yorkers Got Broken Promises. Developers Got 20 Million Sq. Ft. What else we found interesting
South China Morning Post: The 24 terms in the solar calendar Applications are open for…
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Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
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@rosemintzers ) is a data vis writer on Datawrapper's communications team. She likes words, numbers, pictures, and all possible combinations of the same. Rose lives in Berlin.
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