Data Vis Dispatch, June 11
Welcome back to the 146th edition of 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.
This week's major topic was EU parliamentary elections, which gave us a feast of maps and charts.
Over 360 million eligible voters in 27 EU countries had the chance to elect national delegations to the European Parliament. The results got visualized as waffle maps:
And as small-multiple maps:
Of course there was also plenty of coverage at local and national levels:
And the final results called for charts:
Both before and after the vote, many stories focused on a shift towards right-wing parties:
Of course, it’s a year of elections not just in Europe:
Some great non-election-related charts from this week:
What else we found interesting
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