Data Vis Dispatch, July 9
July 9th, 2024
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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 132nd 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 rich and poor, natural phenomena, and health.
In connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war, this week we saw visualizations of the economy and supply of both countries:
For some time, the war between Hamas and Israel has been more than just a war between these two parties. The civilians of Gaza are in a state of famine and as much as two thirds of the population has been displaced into Rafah:
A look at how the war is perceived by U.S. voters:
Sit back as we take you on a grand tour of the world of political visualizations. Let’s start with Europe!
U.S. charts are mainly related to the upcoming (though not too close) presidential election:
Two maps from the U.S. cover immigration and border control:
A striking set of visualizations in The Economist lets you explore demographic tendencies in the U.K. electorate:
Health concerns us throughout our lives — from post-COVID heart disease to cancer surgeries to mental illness:
Blizzards are raging in California, even as winter is getting warmer almost everywhere:
Have you ever thought about how much water a city needs? Here is a visualization that explores this question for Berlin:
From the richest to the poorest:
An upcoming solar eclipse and the just-past leap day!
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