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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
Veronika Halamková
Welcome back to the 62nd 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.
After our late-summer break, we’re returning to regular weekly Dispatches! You can expect the next edition next Tuesday, October 11.
Recurring topics this week include Hurricane Ian, advances in Ukraine, and emotions.
Florida and the Southeastern United States were hit hard by Hurricane Ian last week:
We also got some background on where and why hurricanes form:
The Wall Street Journal: As Hurricane Ian Approaches, Here’s Where Hurricanes Have Hit the U.S., September 27NASA Earth: “Hurricane Ian moved over a large fuel source on Sept. 27: warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico.This map shows sea surface temps, above 27.8° C (82.04° F) in red. Water this warm can sustain and intensify hurricanes as thermal energy moves from sea to sky,” September 28 (Tweet, Article)
The other big map news of the moment is Ukraine’s hugely successful counteroffensive in its northeast and Russia’s subsequent decision to mobilize reservists:
Other great charts and maps covered everything from place names in India to train travel in South Africa:
Stats of India: “Many place names in India end with common suffixes. Most are regional and few are spreadout. This map visualizes 12 suffixes. (-pur,pura,puram -gaon -halli -palle -nagar -wadi -patti -abad, etc). Each dot is a village, town or city. See next video to view each individually,” September 28 (Tweet)The Washington Post: How the NFL Blocks Black Coaches, September 21Kontinentalist: Creating spaces for dialogue, September 29LesEchos: Comment la baisse des vents contrarie l’éolien, September 22The Outlier: Massive drop in train travel, September 22
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(she/her, @rosemintzers) is a data vis writer on Datawrapper's communications team. She likes words, numbers, pictures, and all possible combinations of the same. Rose lives in Berlin.
Veronika Halamková
(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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