Data Vis Dispatch, March 5
Welcome back to the 132nd 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 rich and poor, natural phenomena, and health.
In connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war, this week we saw visualizations of the economy and supply of both countries:



For some time, the war between Hamas and Israel has been more than just a war between these two parties. The civilians of Gaza are in a state of famine and as much as two thirds of the population has been displaced into Rafah:

A look at how the war is perceived by U.S. voters:

Sit back as we take you on a grand tour of the world of political visualizations. Let's start with Europe!


U.S. charts are mainly related to the upcoming (though not too close) presidential election:


Two maps from the U.S. cover immigration and border control:


A striking set of visualizations in The Economist lets you explore demographic tendencies in the U.K. electorate:

Health concerns us throughout our lives — from post-COVID heart disease to cancer surgeries to mental illness:





Blizzards are raging in California, even as winter is getting warmer almost everywhere:


Have you ever thought about how much water a city needs? Here is a visualization that explores this question for Berlin:
From the richest to the poorest:





An upcoming solar eclipse and the just-past leap day!


What else we found interesting

![Harry Jefferies: "My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing [...]," February 27 (<strong><a href="https://twitter.com/Jefferies_/status/1762227703946608992">Tweet</a></strong>)](https://datawrapper.de/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,width=1536,f=auto,fit=cover/https://kirby.datawrapper.de/media/pages/blog/data-vis-dispatch-march-5-2024/0221880088-1740123212/GHSwwNCW0AEfS4G.jpeg)
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