Data Vis Dispatch, October 6: Brazil elections, FlyDubai plane, and ice melting

First, let's look at the elections in Brazil last Sunday. Right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro beat left-wing President Lula da Silva; but without an outright majority. The decision on who will become president will be made in the second round on October 25 (expect more charts and maps!).

Also last week, the first officer of a FlyDubai plane attempted a terror attack but was restrained by passengers. The plane landed safely.

We start our maps section with planes, too – lots of them, all over Brussels. Plus: two (probably heavily vibe-coded, but still interesting) interactive travel time maps, trains in Singapore, and fires in Indonesia.

Climate change is still happening, and ice keeps melting – more than ever at both poles. The Financial Times shows how it's leading to new shipping routes. Meanwhile, two news sites from Switzerland visualized the magnitude of glacier melting in their country.

Only 28 days left until the U.S. midterms! Newsrooms are getting ready with stories, polls, and forecasts.

In non-U.S. politics, we have fun maps by The Guardian and an alluvial diagram by The Economist showing how members of the Israeli parliament switched parties between elections.

Charts on housing answer the following questions this week: What effects does rent control have? How much more rent do you pay in Zurich when you switch apartments? And how many homes do the members of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies own?

Next: a surprisingly small AI section! The New York Times covers both sides: AI is bad for your brain, but we need it anyway.

This week in energy charts, we got two upward lines and two downward arrows:

It's Nobel Prize week, and that's what we're starting our section on gender gaps with. Also in here: street safety and the political spectrum.

And finally, for our "We couldn't come up with better categories for these" category: a sports scandal, Singapore school uniforms, the afterlife, innovation, social media, the gold trade, and malaria.