Archive for the Data Visualization Weekly

Stunning New Data Visualizations Not to Miss — DataViz Weekly

May 17th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Stunning New Data Visualizations Not to MissData visualization is not just about making data look pretty; it’s about uncovering hidden patterns, revealing trends, and providing a clearer understanding of information. Through innovative visual techniques, we can explore data in ways that traditional methods can’t match. This week on DataViz Weekly, we bring you four compelling projects that showcase the transformative power of data visualization:

  • Revealing the warming stripe for 2023 — Ed Hawkins
  • Analyzing and predicting megafires in Europe — elDiario.es
  • Understanding the growing role of giant batteries in electricity grids — NYT
  • Analyzing segregation in U.S. schools — Stanford University

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New Insightful Data Visualizations in Focus — DataViz Weekly

May 10th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

New Insightful Data Visualizations in FocusData visualization serves as a powerful tool that enhances our understanding of complex data, transforming raw figures into insights. DataViz Weekly is here to share several great examples that demonstrate this capability in action. This week, we highlight four data visualization projects that have recently captured our attention:

  • Exploring the U.S. bridges — Esri
  • Analyzing time use by age — FlowingData
  • Tracking historic cicada emergence 2024 — CNN
  • Understanding election polls — Reuters

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Exploring Insights with Data Visualization — DataViz Weekly

May 3rd, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Exploring Insights Through Data Visualization in new DataViz WeeklyWelcome to the new DataViz Weekly, where we continue exploring the transformative power of data visualization. This edition presents a selection of new examples of how charts and maps can help us understand trends and patterns in various subjects — from sports and philanthropy to global challenges like press freedom and inflation, and everyday topics such as sleep. Here are the projects featured this time:

  • March Madness philanthropy challenge — Bloomberg
  • 2024 World Press Freedom Index — Reporters Without Borders
  • Global Inflation Tracker — Council on Foreign Relations
  • Sleep trends in America — The Washington Post

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Understanding Complex Topics Through Data Graphics — DataViz Weekly

April 26th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Understanding Complex Topics Through Data Graphics — DataViz WeeklyDataViz Weekly is here! Today, we spotlight cool new projects that illuminate how complex topics can be presented and explored in a comprehendible and impactful manner with the help of appropriate data graphics. Here’s a quick look at what we’re covering today:

  • Evaluating agri-environmental policy effectiveness globally — Our World in Data
  • Visualizing сlimate сhange across generations — The Tardigrade
  • Revealing pandemic toll on U.S. prison populations — The Marshall Project
  • Exploring Israel’s integrated air defense capabilities in action — Reuters

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New Data-Driven Stories Worth Exploring — DataViz Weekly

April 19th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

New Data-Driven Stories Worth Exploring — DataViz WeeklyThis week’s DataViz Weekly showcases a quartet of compelling data-driven stories, each powered by the adept use of data visualization techniques. These narratives not only inform but inspire, perhaps sparking creative concepts for your upcoming projects.

Here are the visual stories featured in this issue:

  • Unraveling the hold of historical mortgage rates in the U.S. — The Upshot
  • Retelling the transformation of San Francisco’s Japantown after Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 — The San Francisco Chronicle
  • Revealing hidden risks in common fragrances — Bloomberg
  • Exploring the persistent shadows of teen adversity — The Pudding

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Exploring Eclipse Impact, Nature Access, Marital Ages, Voter Profiles — DataViz Weekly

April 12th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Exploring Eclipse Impact, Nature Access, Marital Ages, Voter Profiles — DataViz Weekly

Welcome back to DataViz Weekly! We’re thrilled to restart our series, presenting each Friday a carefully curated selection of recent data visualizations that have caught our eye from around the web. These charts and maps serve as excellent examples of how data can be transformed into insightful and engaging graphical representations for understanding complex issues.

This time, we feature:

  • Eclipse traffic and movements — The New York Times
  • America’s access to natural spaces — The Washington Post
  • Marital age patterns — FlowingData
  • Profiling independent voters — Reuters

Join us as we take a closer look at these visualizations and check them out for a dose of inspiration.

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Ukraine-Russia in Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

February 24th, 2023 by DataViz Weekly

Ukraine-Russia Data VisualizationsOne year ago today, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine. To mark this anniversary, DataViz Weekly has put together a collection of remarkable data visualizations that may offer insights into the conflict. These include Grid’s interactive that maps out how events unfolded over the last 365 days, Politico’s series of graphics that highlight some of the key numbers, The New York Times’s charts that illustrate the world’s stance, and Russia Beyond’s timeline of Russia’s territorial evolution since the 9th century.

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Most Notable New Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

February 10th, 2023 by AnyChart Team

Most Notable New Data Visualizations | DataViz WeeklyIf you like cool data visualizations, DataViz Weekly is for you! In our new roundup, check out some of the most notable graphics we have seen around the web over the last seven days.

  • Seattle as a 15-minute city — Nat Henry
  • LeBron James vs the NBA’s other top scorers — The New York Times
  • Subnational immigration patterns across Spain — El Confidencial
  • Intro length in the top songs in 1960–2023 — The Economist

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Exciting Visual Graphics That Tell Stories — DataViz Weekly

January 13th, 2023 by AnyChart Team

Exciting Visual Graphics That Tell Stories, on DataViz WeeklyDataViz Weekly is our regular blog feature where we curate the most exciting charts, maps, and infographics we’ve recently come across. Today, we want to attract your attention to some cool visual stories published out there near the end of the last year, which we did not get a chance to spotlight before:

  • Animal species extinction over time — Reuters
  • Daylight optimization in the United States — FiveThirtyEight
  • Top human names for dogs — The Washington Post
  • Snowfall across the U.S. — William B. Davis

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2022 Year in Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

January 6th, 2023 by AnyChart Team

2022 Year in Data Visualization GraphicsFinally we are in 2023! May this new year be the best one for all of you!

Before getting too far into 2023, we thought it would be interesting to look back at 2022 in data visualizations. And the first DataViz Weekly in the new year seems like a nice occasion! Let’s say farewell to 2022 by recalling its hottest topics with the help of “year in graphics” features on Politico, The Post, NYT, and Bloomberg.

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