Data Vis Dispatch, November 26
November 26th, 2024
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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 144th edition of Data Vis Dispatch! Every week, we publish 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 turbulence, democracies, and elections (again!).
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Last Monday, turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight killed one passenger and injured dozens more. Climate conditions are making severe turbulence more likely:
It’s not just turbulence — summer travel is predicted to get busier and messier. The interaction style in this log-scale Bloomberg chart deserves special highlighting:
This week’s visualizations on Israel/Palestine include a map of Israeli hostages, the recognition of Palestine as a state by several European countries, and the dangerous problems of waste management in Gaza:
Same continent, different coast — after the inauguration of the new Taiwanese president, China surrounded the island in military exercises:
Environment-related topics included climate loans, groundwater pollution, landslides, and the correlation between rising temperatures and electricity demand:
But we’re also here for good climate news, like more ambitious national energy and climate plans:
It’s the year of election visualizations — for this week, a look at the huge number of parties in India and local elections in Germany:
What social factors influence elections? These visualizations explore the legacy of apartheid in South Africa, and generational nostalgia and election-denying rhetoric in the U.S.:
With all these elections, how is democracy doing out there?
In economic charts, real estate and what’s coming next for the Chinese economy:
She’s back — Taylor Swift and the Data Vis Dispatch aren’t never ever ever getting back together:
What do a live baseball dashboard, cicada brood chart, and abortion law map have in common? Not too much — but they all deserve to be featured in this Dispatch:
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