Data Vis Dispatch, October 1
October 2nd, 2024
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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Welcome back to the 159th edition of the 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 student discrimination, migration, and pesky animals.
We love to start the Dispatch with something fun. Today, visualizations that take their subjects very literally:
We turn from light-hearted topics to the serious challenges faced by students, from housing shortages and discrimination to gun violence:
This week’s war-related visualizations didn’t look directly at troop movements or casualties, but at delayed buses in Kyiv due to air strikes and surging sales of local soda due to boycotts over Coke and Pepsi’s ties to Israel:
But of course there are still many maps to see this week, even on the topic of mapping itself:
Other maps looked at migration routes and their dangers:
Immigration is also a major topic in the U.S. presidential election. Ahead of today’s debate, we’ve seen detailed analyses of the candidates’ words and speaking styles:
Irregularities in the postal vote during state elections in Saxony, Germany, lead to charges of electoral fraud against the far-right party “Freie Sachsen.” Meanwhile, Folha de S.Paulo ranks Brazil’s political parties on a spectrum from left to right:
We always appreciate a well-crafted line chart. This week’s batch shows cheaper lab-grown diamonds, improved accessibility in Seoul subway stations, rising credit card debt in America, depopulation in the former East Germany, and people googling “how to kill [insert despised insect here]”:
The next category is red. What does it stand for? Temperature anomalies, rising water temperatures, plastic burning outdoors, and fire hazards due to flammable cladding:
Finally, a dashboard of visualizations to understand the population of South Tyrol, Nvidia’s wild stock ride, and EV battery manufacturers:
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