Data Vis Dispatch, November 7

The #30DayMapChallenge started on November 1! Here are a few maps that particularly caught our eye:

Now back to the hard topics: The Israel-Hamas war continues. This week, two animated maps provide a better understanding of the situation in Gaza:

We also noticed this visualization that focuses on the individuals killed in Gaza:

As the ground invasion has advanced into the Gaza Strip, several maps depicted Israeli troop positions:

What do people around the world think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? The Economist team compared views on social media to what pollsters have found:

But this isn’t the only conflict situation taking place. We also saw visualizations with an eye on China’s military exercises and Taiwan:

In the world of energy, we encountered two visualizations dealing with fossil fuels:

Jumping from fossil fuels to climate change is easy: Three visualizations this week tell stories about extreme weather situations (and about rich people in Florida who actually manage to benefit from them):

Let’s zoom in a little further on the financial topics. This week’s visualizations have proven how helpful circle encodings are in illustrating everything from corporate profits to employee salaries to development aid budgets:

We’ve talked about circle encodings… Next cluster: bar charts:

Next we have three creative visualizations of decrease and increase over time. Apparently, drugs and space junk are increasing (bad), but oyster harvesting is decreasing (good — for the oysters):

Last but not least, we find everything from granular election research to abortion in Brazil to “Should I really be putting so much money into my skincare routine?”: