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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
Lisa Charlotte Muth
Welcome back to the sixth 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 for this week include wildfire, floods, coronavirus, and… the Olympics!
Let’s start with the fun ones — the Olympics are here and the charts are flowing:
And take a deep dive (pun very much intended) into the world of swimming:
The New York Times: Australia Dominates Again in the Women’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay, July 25The Washington Post: How Katie Ledecky swims faster than the rest of the world, July 21The New York Times: “@adam_peaty won the men’s 100-meter breaststroke, giving him back-to-back Olympic golds in the event. Peaty has swum the fastest 16 times in history,” July 25 (Tweet)Krisztina Szűcs: “I had a lot of fun creating this visualization for swimming results. The version before this one had even more moving elements but I needed to remove some to be able to save smaller gifs. I’m still spamming @plotparade with other #olympics related visualizations,” July 25 (Tweet)
Help us make this dispatch better! We’d love to hear which newsletters, blogs, or social media accounts we need to follow to learn about interesting projects, especially from less-covered parts of the world (Asia, South America, Africa). Write us at hello@datawrapper.de or leave a comment below.
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
(@rosemintzers) writes for the blog at Datawrapper. She's here to talk data vis, tell stories, and tweak punctuation. The rest of the time, you can find her exploring new cities and googling the etymology of every word you say. Drop her a line at rose@datawrapper.de.
Lisa Charlotte Muth
(@lisacmuth, formerly Lisa Charlotte Rost) is responsible for the communication at Datawrapper, especially the blog. She's been writing about data vis for years and is excited to learn and teach.
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