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The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Lisa Charlotte Muth
Welcome back to the 61st edition of Data Vis Dispatch! (Usually) 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.
Until the end of September, we’re taking a little late-summer break and publishing the Dispatch only every other Tuesday. You can expect the next Dispatch on October 4th.
Without further ado, here’s the best from last week (and a bit from the week before). Recurring topics include the Queen’s death, the hurricane over Puerto Rico, territory gains of Ukraine, and the climate.
The biggest news event in the past two weeks was undoubtedly the Queen’s death. Lots of newsrooms created visualizations to illustrate how enormously long her reign of 70 years was. (Here are more from Le Monde and AFP News.)
So who’s next in line? Many people wondered, and Amy O’Kruk from NBC collected how different newsrooms visualized the British line of succession in this Twitter thread. Here are two of them:
Other big environmental disruptions reported about were earthquakes in Mexico, the volcanic eruption on La Palma a year ago and the current floods in Pakistan:
From gas prices to U.S. politics – The Economist shows that it might be related. Besides that, the U.S. is heading toward a midterm election, and we’ve seen a number of charts about Congress:
…while Politico looked closely on checks written for Covid research:
Politico: 6 charts that show how money and influence shaped the world’s Covid plan, September 14The Outlier Africa: “#OurWorldinCharts’ Chart of the day: Before 2019 life expectancies in many of these countries seemed to be on the rise, but since Covid-19 they have declined. As of 2021, South Africa’s life expectancy is 62, nine years less than the world average,” September 13 (Tweet)
In better news: Because Roger Federer announced his retirement from professional tennis, we got a sports category again:
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.
The next Data Vis Dispatch will come out on October 4 (curated by Rose again!).
Lisa Charlotte Muth
(she/her, @lisacmuth, @lisacmuth@vis.social) is Datawrapper’s head of communications. She writes about best practices in data visualization and thinks of new ways to excite you about charts and maps. Lisa lives in Berlin.
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