Data Vis Dispatch, March 11: International Women's Day, COVID-19, and scrollytelling

Let's start with a topic that used to open almost every Dispatch: the COVID-19 pandemic turned five this week. "Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of almost everything measurable today," write Irineo Cabreros and Aatish Bhatia in The New York Times:

March 8 was International Women's Day. Women protested and received flowers, while data vis depicted their (limited) mobility and career obstacles:

People attempt to return to their homes in Gaza, even as Israel displaces tens of thousands more in the West Bank. All of these issues were presented in great (but horrible) dark-mode visualizations:

Great visualizations of dark subjects continue with three beautifully crafted scrollytelling pieces about Russian invasion in Ukraine's Donbas region, hard times in middle school, and undersea cables' vulnerability to sabotage:

Unfortunately, this week's environmental topics are also under the "sad news" banner. But they do use interesting visualization tools, like a butterfly search engine or timestamp-driven annotations:

Elections took over the political visualizations again this week, with Canadian election polls and new electoral boundaries in Singapore:

On to economic charts, dominated by U.S. relations with China and Hong Kong:

Other maps of the past week covered a partial solar eclipse, New York's "City of Yes" plans, and Formula 1:

This week we're appreciating small visual decisions like (broken) heart symbols in a "Love is Blind" alluvial chart, an elegant bar chart and table about lawsuits in Argentina, and small animations on daylight saving time. As always, there's more below in "What else we found interesting," which this week features two articles about the data vis industry: