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May 2nd, 2023

Data Vis Dispatch, May 2

The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations

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Rose Mintzer-Sweeney

Welcome back to the 92nd 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 war, climate-change ecology, and gender in the labor force.

Several charts this week covered different angles on demographic trends, gender, and the workforce:

Financial Times: Can India unlock the potential of its youth?, April 28
Bloomberg: Women in Finance See Double the Wage Disparity Compared to UK Average, April 5
Ansgar Wolsing: “Employment rates for women and men with children aged 6 or younger in the EU 27. #30DayChartChallenge | day 18: data day: Eurostat | #rstats,” April 27 (Tweet)
Frankfurter Allgemeine: Die große Arbeitskräftelücke – und wie sie geschlossen werden soll, April 27
The Wall Street Journal: Biden Runs on an Improved, but Still Troubled Economy, April 26

These three maps looked at ecological effects of climate change:

The Washington Post: Trees are moving north from global warming. Look up how your city could change, April 26
Financial Times: Horn of Africa drought made 100 times more likely by climate change, scientists report, April 27
The Wall Street Journal: ‘A Large Portion of This Base Is Going to Be Underwater’: U.S. Military Hub Adapts to Climate, April 25

And electric vehicles and nuclear power also stayed in the news:

The Washington Post: The underbelly of electric vehicles, April 27
The Wall Street Journal: Kremlin Extends Global Influence With Russian Nuclear-Power Juggernaut, April 27

We saw maps of Russian positions in Ukraine and Syria:

Reuters: Digging in, April 27
The Wall Street Journal: Victory Elusive for Russians in Grinding Battle in Ukraine’s East, April 30
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Says Russia’s Military Actions in Syria Raise Risk of Escalation, April 25

And on the bad-to-good-news spectrum — political violence, train delays, and wildflowers:

The Economist: Quantifying the rise of America’s far right, April 25
Financial Times: Pay rises alone will not stem the flow of Britain’s medics, May 1
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Ausgebremst von S-Bahn und Interregio: Züge zwischen der Schweiz und Deutschland sind häufig verspätet – wo es besonders oft Probleme gibt, April 26
Le Monde: Les députés parmi les 3 % des Français les mieux rémunérés malgré une « dégradation » depuis les années 2000, April 30
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Covid-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations Near New Lows, April 28
The Los Angeles Times: California started this community science project to document urban nature — now it’s taking over the world, April 28

What else we found interesting

David Rumsey: “Mapping and data visualization of 19th century balloon journeys. “Travels in the Air,” 1871, by James Glaisher. A new way of seeing the earth. With thanks to RJ Andrews @infowetrust for bringing this to us,” May 2 (Tweet)

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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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