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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
Welcome back to the 38th 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 climate change and war in Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine continues after a full month of fighting. Among the new maps from this week, our attention was particularly captured by the New York Times’ count of Russian strikes on civilian targets and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung’s look at how different sources are reporting the war:
These two charts, from El Confidencial and La Vanguardia, visualize the same data to show how Russian casualties in Ukraine compare to wars from the past:
El Confidencial: ¿Cuántos soldados rusos han muerto en Ucrania?, March 24Laura Aragó: “Si la xifra de 1.531 facilitada pel govern rus fós real, la velocitat de les baixes continuaria sent més alta que a l’Afganistan, on al llarg de 14 anys van morir 14.457 soldats,” March (Tweet, Source)
Texty looked at the loss and capture of arms and equipment:
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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.
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