Data Vis Dispatch, July 25

Get ready for a long Dispatch this week — Sunday was a general election in Spain! There were trackers and maps of the overall results:

There was the question of overall ideological swing:

There were predictions, and later analyses, of viable coalition outcomes:

Spanish voters belong to geographical constituencies, which brings up the issue of strategic and "wasted" votes:

And we already saw some early analyses of voting behavior:

In slightly less important news, "Barbie." Also "Oppenheimer":

Meanwhile — it's hot. We saw several great maps tackle the problem of showing a heat crisis that's happening almost all around the world at once:

Lots of places are dangerously hot; only some of them are actually on fire:

Ok, back to fun stuff. Sporting events this week included the Women's World Cup, the Tour de France, and a multimodal, journalists-only race from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore:

College admissions in America remain a hot topic:

And this week's data news from Ukraine focused on land mines and weapon stocks:

Purple was this week's color for charts:

And other maps covered everything from the danger of an oil spill in the Red Sea to broken promises in New York real estate: