We want to enable everyone to create beautiful charts, maps, and tables. New to data visualization? Or do you have specific questions about us? You'll find all the answers here.
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Veronika Halamková
Welcome back to the 68th 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 U.S. midterms (again), climate, the war in Ukraine, and the second full week of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Last week, Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections and kicked off a different kind of race — the race to report on (and visualize) results as votes are being counted.
The second week of COP27, the UN’s Climate Change Conference, inspired climate-related coverage, ranging from rising temperatures and shrinking rivers to climate finance.
Finally, we’re back with maps from the second full week of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Seán: “#30DayMapChallenge Day 12 – Scale The islands of Ireland ⛰️🇮🇪 20 largest islands in Ireland listed and shown to scale. Each showing area in sq/km along with population (correct estimates this time!) #gis #ireland #cartography,” November 13 (Tweet)Python Maps: “Day 12 of the #30DayMapChallenge – Scale. The rivers and waterways in South America, coloured according to the major hydrological basins they are part of and scaled by their size.This map was generated using #Matplotlib. #DataVisualization #Python #DataScience #Data #SouthAmerica,” November 12 (Tweet)Lee Olney: “30DayMapChallenge Day 8 Data: OpenStreetMap. Parks and libraries in the City of Boston.” November 8 (Tweet, Code)
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.
(she/her, @v_halamkova) was a data vis writer in the Communications team between 2022 and 2023. She lives in Berlin and created and wrote beautiful data visualizations. Before Datawrapper, she worked in the data team at Tortoise Media.
Comments