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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Veronika Halamková
Welcome back to the 67th 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, rising temperatures, and the first full week of the #30DayMapChallenge.
The day of the U.S. midterm elections has finally arrived, marking the end of a massive political campaign. Data journalists across newsrooms have been busy charting forecasts, political donations, social media posts, key issues,and Election Day weather.
The beginning of COP27, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, brought the world’s attention back to the climate — from rising temperatures to the effectiveness of renewable energy.
Ukraine is protecting its cultural heritage from the effects of the war. The country also reported a large decrease in energy production capacity since March of this year.
Now back to the #30DayMapChallenge and some of the most creative contributions of the week!
Antonia Blankenberg: “Most of my #30DayMapChallenge creations utilise @openstreetmap data, so I think I needed to add an interesting twist for today’s Data Challenge! This is the #MonaLisa recreated (roughly) from #OSM data surrounding the Louvre 🗺️🎨,” November 8 (Tweet)Kylie Tokar: “According to @Esri, raster data is “a matrix of cells or pixels organized into rows and columns (or a grid) where each cell contains a value representing information” and for that reason, this is my submission to #30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Raster,” November 7 (Tweet)Kate Berg/Pokateo Maps: “Exploring out how Greenland looks in ten different projections for #30DayMapChallenge Day 4 Green,” November 4 (Tweet)Julian Hoffmann: “3D Raster Globe* | Day 8 – Raster #30DayMapChallenge *Just for fun. Made in #Blender3d with #geometrynodes and NASA’s blue marble satellite imagery,” November 7 (Tweet)Jess Hepburn: “How wet is it really?☂️ The annual count of 10mm rainfall days (days where there is greater than or equal to 10mm rainfall) averaged from 1991 – 2020, ranging from 9 to 132 days! Data from @metofficeUK via @LivingAtlas. 30DayMapChallenge | Day 7 Raster,” November 7 (Tweet)3D Geoinfo @ TU Delft: “30DayMapChallenge Day 8: OSM Data Building footprints available in OpenStreetMap. Follow this link to see the entire globe with the data,” November 8 (Tweet, Code)Geography of Kenya: “30DayMapChallenge A hydrological map of Kenya. Rivers in Kenya flow from the highlands East & West of the Rift valley. Eastern rivers flow to Indian Ocean, Western rivers to Lake Victoria and a few rivers flow into Rift valley lakes. Which river(s) flow in your home County?” November 7 (Tweet)beyondwatts: “A little fun with @openstreetmap data for #30DayMapChallenge Day 8 – #OpenStreetMap Looking forward to beer o’clock 🍻,” November 8 (Tweet)
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(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.
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