Data Vis Dispatch, February 11: Super Bowl, minerals, and Baltic states

On Sunday, the Super Bowl had a large part of the U.S. population and beyond under its spell. The world of data visualization was not left untouched. Visualizations depicted the size of the players and cleaned-up lyrics in the halftime show:

Three weeks into the Trump administration, data journalists focus their attention on cuts to U.S. foreign aid, the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay, and different ways to measure how the country is faring:

Trump’s calls for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza have provided a fresh occasion to highlight the enormous destruction there:

It’s a good moment to remember the ongoing war and war crimes in Europe too:

Just two weeks until Germans cast their votes. Here’s the current state of the polls (you can now create such comparison column charts in Datawrapper, too!):

Moving north to the Baltic Sea — Sweden and Finland are privatizing forests, while Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are cutting their electricity links with Russia:

This week in cities — how to improve walkability, and how Los Angeles is recovering from its recent wildfires:

Last week, Le Monde published a fascinating series on the politics of minerals in Africa:

We came across several rising line charts this week:

Want to explore something on your own? Here are two interactive data visualizations on alcohol consumption and pensions in Germany:

Finally, two charts we couldn't pass up — the labor market gap between immigrants and natives in Europe, and wildfire risk in Canada: