The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney
Lisa Charlotte Muth
Welcome back to the 105th 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 business, labor, and overheating oceans.
Niger and other countries in the Sahel region were in the spotlight this week:
The Economist: Fanatics and putschists are creating failed states in west Africa, August 1The Outlier: "Ghana has become the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty. It has 176 people on death row, but no one has been executed there since 1993. 3 African countries carried out executions last year: Egypt, South Sudan & Somalia," August 8 (Tweet)
We also saw maps of Russian sanction-dodging and the front line in Ukraine:
There are four charts in this section — two about 78 charges across three criminal cases faced by former U.S. president Donald Trump, and two about his excellent chances of winning next year's Republican nomination and decent shot at retaking the presidency:
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