Welcome back to the 57th edition of Data Vis Dispatch! Every week, we’ll be publishing 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 abortion, immigration, and the Taiwan Strait.
During military exercises this week, China repeatedly crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and dropped missiles into Japanese waters:
The New York Times: After Pelosi’s arrival, China announced military drills in nearby waters Le Monde: A Taïwan, Nancy Pelosi dit être venue « en paix » dans la région ; la Chine annonce des « actions militaires ciblées » El Mundo: La nueva crisis del estrecho de Taiwan, explicada en cinco gráficos Le Monde: Face à la menace militaire chinoise, Taïwan fait le choix de la guerre asymétrique The New York Times: Maps: Tracking Tensions Between China and Taiwan Meanwhile, it was a big week in domestic politics as well. Voters in Kansas decisively rejected an anti-abortion ballot initiative , showing the issue cuts across partisan lines:
The New York Times: Where Trump Counties in Kansas Chose to Preserve Abortion Rights The New York Times: Kansas Result Suggests 4 Out of 5 States Would Back Abortion Rights in Similar Vote The Economist: Kansas’s vote on abortion shows many Republicans are pro-choice FiveThirtyEight: Why Abortion May Be A Winning Issue For Democrats The Wall Street Journal: How Abortion Access Has Changed Around the World Public opinion on immigration is shifting in the U.S. and U.K.:
FiveThirtyEight: When Republicans Talk About Immigration, They Don’t Just Mean Illegal Immigration The New Statesman: By obsessing over immigration, the Conservatives are chasing phantom voters Financial Times: Britain faces growing competition to attract global talent A climate and tax bill passed in the U.S. Senate this weekend would bring the country within striking distance of its emissions goals:
The New York Times: How the New Climate Bill Would Reduce Emissions Among other measures, it includes incentives to promote electric cars :
Bloomberg: Best Road Trips in the US Are Off the Map for Most Electric Cars The Wall Street Journal: Proposed Tax Break for Buying Electric Vehicles Is Too Hard to Get, Auto Makers Say And other energy visualizations focused on personal carbon footprints , renewable sources , and liquified natural gas :
Le Monde: Alimentation, transport, chauffage… Evaluez si vos émissions de CO₂ sont vraiment « soutenables » Der Spiegel: Sonnenkönig oder Hochstapler? Bloomberg: Mud and Dust in Pipeline Slows Vital Gas Flows to Europe From UK Meanwhile, in concrete climate matters, it was another week of heat, drought, fire, and floods :
The New York Times: ‘Oppressive’ Heat to Spike in the Northeast Bloomberg: Mapping the Coolest Spots Inside the World’s Sweltering Cities Bloomberg: The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives Le Monde: Eau potable, irrigation, production électrique : tensions sur le partage de l’eau dans le Sud-Est asséché Le Monde: Feux de forêts : en France, au milieu de l’été, la surface brûlée est plus importante que sur tout 2019 Financial Times: Climate graphic of the week: Extreme weather patterns take deadly toll in Kentucky floods The New York Times: The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land These charts showed a mixed economic outlook, with low unemployment and high inflation :
The Washington Post: Today’s economic data compared with recessions over the past 50 years The New York Times: U.S. Job Growth Unexpectedly Soared in July The Wall Street Journal: Food Price Inflation Imposing Heavy Burden on Poorer Countries The Economist: Regional differences in American inflation hit a 40-year high In national elections, we saw maps of voting protections in the U.S. and ideological alignments in Latin America :
Bloomberg: Five US States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen Le Monde: En Amérique latine, une « nouvelle gauche » au pouvoir These visualizations on the war in Ukraine focused on the role of drones in the fighting, the shipping situation in the Black Sea , and the structure of Russia's military-industrial complex :
Texty: Повітряні війни Reuters: Traffic resumes from Ukrainian ports Texty: Машина війни Other maps this week covered gun trafficking, Al-Qaeda, mortgage boycotts, and shark attacks :
The Wall Street Journal: Gun Trafficking Surges Across State Lines: One Pistol’s 1,200-Mile Journey to a Boston Homicide Le Monde: « Al-Qaida survivra à la mort d’Al-Zawahiri comme elle a survécu à la mort de Ben Laden » Bloomberg: Sweeping Mortgage Boycott Changes the Face of Dissent in China The Wall Street Journal: Shark Attacks in U.S. Total 28 So Far This Year What else we found interesting Reuters: Saving the Sequoias The Straits Times: The green, green grass of home Applications are open for...
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