Data Vis Dispatch, January 7

Welcome back to the 175th edition of the Data Vis Dispatch — the first of the new year! 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.

It was a quiet week in data visualization, as journalists and readers slowly return from vacation — but recurring topics included an earthquake in Tibet, plane crash in Korea, and predictions for 2025.

With December 31 behind us, we can finally take a comprehensive look back at 2024 — a year of hot weather, rising stocks, and stick-horse riding:

Of course, it's also the last call on predictions for 2025. You might get the flu and waste a lot of time on social media:

But the year is already underway. Its first big natural disaster is an earthquake in Tibet:

A much smaller quake was recorded in Northern California:

Other visualizations grappled with the human disasters that closed out the past year. There was an airplane crash in Seoul:

And two attacks in the United States:

This is the coldest part of the year — but the years themselves are only getting warmer:

These visualizations looked at big economic issues like inequality, growth, and (illicit) international trade:

Other topics included everything from the journey of Jimmy Carter's body to the Strait of Malacca:

What else we found interesting

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