Data Vis Dispatch, May 28
Welcome back to the 144th 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.
Recurring topics this week include turbulence, democracies, and elections (again!).
The interactive book "Data by Design" is now online and ready for community review — take a look!
Last Monday, turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight killed one passenger and injured dozens more. Climate conditions are making severe turbulence more likely:
It's not just turbulence — summer travel is predicted to get busier and messier. The interaction style in this log-scale Bloomberg chart deserves special highlighting:
This week's visualizations on Israel/Palestine include a map of Israeli hostages, the recognition of Palestine as a state by several European countries, and the dangerous problems of waste management in Gaza:
Same continent, different coast — after the inauguration of the new Taiwanese president, China surrounded the island in military exercises:
Environment-related topics included climate loans, groundwater pollution, landslides, and the correlation between rising temperatures and electricity demand:
But we're also here for good climate news, like more ambitious national energy and climate plans:
It's the year of election visualizations — for this week, a look at the huge number of parties in India and local elections in Germany:
What social factors influence elections? These visualizations explore the legacy of apartheid in South Africa, and generational nostalgia and election-denying rhetoric in the U.S.:
With all these elections, how is democracy doing out there?
In economic charts, real estate and what's coming next for the Chinese economy:
She's back — Taylor Swift and the Data Vis Dispatch aren't never ever ever getting back together:
What do a live baseball dashboard, cicada brood chart, and abortion law map have in common? Not too much — but they all deserve to be featured in this Dispatch:
What else we found interesting
![Dr. M.F. Khan: "Venice was built on a foundation of about 10,000,000 underwater wooden logs or 8 to 10 tree logs per sq meter. Trunks function as roots. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice [...]," May 23 (<strong><a href="https://x.com/Dr_TheHistories/status/1793586673978322990/photo/1">Tweet</a></strong>)](https://datawrapper.de/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,width=980,f=auto,fit=cover/https://kirby.datawrapper.de/media/pages/blog/data-vis-dispatch-may-28-2024/722bf43772-1740123219/GOQZkY_a0AAymM7.jpeg)
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