Data Vis Dispatch, August 6

Welcome back to the 154th 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 elections in Venezuela, immigration, and the Olympics.

It's the Olympics! You know what that means:

No, hang on, that's not right. These days it's something more like:

We saw visualizations of the events:

And the scoring and records:

Including some now-classic medal count charts:

Other charts focused on the athletes themselves:

For elections, last week was Venezuela's turn. In this case, of course, the official outcome doesn't match the data:

A shaken-up U.S. presidential race is starting to hit its stride:

It's been a long time since we could publish a Dispatch without a section on war and violence:

On immigration, and the lengths people will go to get where they want to be:

And natural disasters aggravated by human activities:

In the last section — a massive prisoner exchange, a test of patience, and the soup dumpling:

What else we found interesting

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