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For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside of looking up directions : Cartographic décor can help sate fundamental human needs to feel oriented. Tags: decor , New York Times Without me, you are alone and lost.”

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The New York Times highlighted the work : “We don’t see the latitude and longitude lines of maps,” he said. “We For Mr. Thomas, this equates to a kind of “emotional geography,” where features with greater emotional heft — the New York City skyline, say, or the Golden Gate Bridge — may take up more space.

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MAY 9, 2023

Mona Chalabi, known around these parts for her illustrative approach to data journalism, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times piece on Jeff Bezos’ extreme wealth. Tags: illustration , Mona Chalabi , New York Times , Pulitzer Congratulations to Mona.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Using GPS data processed by Replica, Lydia DePillis, Emma Goldberg, and Ella Koeze, for The New York Times, show how commutes have changed post-pandemic. Tags: commute , New York Times The roads in major cities are a little bit less congested and the traffic moves a bit faster.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The New York Times mapped gas exports from Russia to E.U. Tags: gas , New York Times , Russia.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Using data from NOAA , Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York Times mapped all-time temperature records set in 2021. Red indicates an all-time high, and blue indicates an all-time low. Tags: climate change , New York Times , temperature.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

The New York Times visualized the shift with animated maps. Tags: China , fishing , New York Times. China’s fish supply is running low along its own coast, so they’ve shifted their fishing activities globally.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Using a combination of weather reports, videos, and 911 calls, The New York Times uses mixed media to show the events leading up to the wildfire in Lahaina, Maui. Tags: Lahaina , New York Times , wildfire Firefighters had rescued dozens of people from the seawall by 2 a.m.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tags: confidence , inflation , Nate Silver , New York Times , spending The University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment focuses more on personal spending, whereas the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Survey.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

For The New York Times, Elena Shao, Mira Rojanasakul, and Nadja Popovich show the sudden bump in water supply. Tags: California , drought , New York Times , rain The areas to show historical averages in the background was a good choice. Very reservoir-ish.

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MAY 3, 2023

Mira Rojanasakul and Max Bearak for The New York Times highlight the rise of pumped storage around the world. Tags: energy , New York Times , renewable Instead of a big dam to store water, two reservoirs are used. One is high. The other is low.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Mira Rojanasakul, for The New York Times, shows how pollution from smoke spread between 2006 and 2020. Tags: New York Times , pollution , smoke , wildfire. Based on research by Childs et al.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and how things haven’t gone as expected. Tags: New York Times , Russia , sanctions , Ukraine A series of packed bubbles, cartograms, and flowcharts provide a visual timeline for each country’s reactions.

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APRIL 15, 2022

For The New York Times, Aatish Bhatia and Henry Fountain describe the effects of the eruption , which lasted for days and rippled around the world. Tags: eruption , New York Times , shockwave , Tonga. Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York Times identified airstrips used for illegal mining in Brazil : To confirm these locations and connect them with illicit mining, Times reporters built a tool to help analyze thousands of satellite images.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The New York Times tracked oil tankers faking their location as they ignore sanctions but keep insurance that is contingent on following the sanctions: “It’s significant when you look at dollar terms,” said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, which monitors global shipping, who first alerted The Times to several of the suspicious ships.

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JULY 28, 2022

Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for those who were displaced by natural disasters. Tags: disaster , FEMA , housing , New York Times. Area charts by Mira Rojanasakul show how much the support has been lagging.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Tags: animation , interest , New York Times , projections This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the Fed and changing projections. The animation makes it.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Nadja Popovich for The New York Times has the small multiple maps to show June conditions each year since 2000. Tags: climate change , drought , Nadja Popovich , New York Times.

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JUNE 26, 2023

For The New York Times, Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer describe and map the challenges : America’s fragmented electric grid, which was largely built to accommodate coal and gas plants, is becoming a major obstacle to efforts to fight climate change. Tags: electricity , grid , New York Times

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

For The New York Times, Henry Fountain and Jeremy White show how the shifts have unwelled centuries-old water deep in the ocean , which releases carbon into the air. The scrollytelling format of this piece works well to show sensor estimates over time. You get a sense of the currents without needing to see animated lines.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

To show the change in rain, Zach Levitt and Jeremy White, for The New York Times, go with a rain drop aesthetic. Tags: monsoon , New York Times , rain. The density of animated dots represents future rainfall and resembles drops of rain falling on the ground.

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JULY 7, 2021

Tags: income , New York Times , trees. Ian Leahy and Yaryna Serkez for NYT Opinion look at income and tree canopy in major cities. Higher median income neighborhoods correlate with cleaner and cooler air.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Scott Reinhard, for The New York Times, visualized the flow of fog and what sucks it into the bay. Tags: climate , fog , New York Times , San Francisco. That intro image is something.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

As is required for any milestone by a great athlete, a step chart from The New York Times shows her world ranking over time. I like the focus on the higher rankings, which is fitting for the occasion, and dotted lines that indicate the smaller chunks of time Williams ranked below 20.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder looked at distribution of available doses in countries , categorized by income group. Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , vaccination. Vaccine supply is only part of the equation.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Millions of Ukrainians (over three million as of this writing) have left their homes for other countries in a relatively short period of time. Tags: New York Times , refugees , scale , Ukraine , war. Sara Chodosh, Zach Levitt and Gus Wezerek for NYT Opinion put the total as of March 13 into perspective.

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JULY 28, 2021

Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for The New York Times compared time use in 2020 against time use in 2019 , among different demographic groups. Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , time use. As we know, the pandemic affected everyone differently.

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JULY 26, 2021

The New York Times charted speed ranks during the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay. My favorite part is how they got the data, which wasn’t available, so they estimated through photos and timestamps: The Times annotated a sequence of several hundred photographs to determine the speed of each athlete throughout the race.

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MAY 25, 2022

This chart from The New York Times , based on estimates from Our World In Data and World Bank, shows GDP per capita against gun homicide rates. Tags: guns , homicide. The United States stands alone.

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JUNE 20, 2022

For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped the change in destinations for Russian private jets , before and after sanctions. Tags: flights , New York Times , Russia , wealth. Before, it was more about Paris, Milan, and Geneva. I like the charts after the map.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

The New York Times mapped the possibility and how it could disrupt life in and around the island. Tags: blockade , China , New York Times , Taiwan. It appears China wants to impose a blockade around Taiwan with ships, submarines, and airplanes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So Ben Casselman and Lauren Leatherby, for The New York Times, broke it down with a series of charts to view from different angles. Tags: economy , New York Times. Measuring the condition of the economy is tricky, because there are many parts to the economy.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Thompson, for The New York Times, used data collected by Travis Brown to show who paid for their checkmarks. Tags: followers , New York Times , Twitter. It’s a big scatterplot. Each dot represents a Twitter user, plotted by registration date on the x-axis and follower count on the y-axis.

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APRIL 5, 2022

The New York Times shows how Russia has tried to take over and how Ukraine continues to stop the offensives. Tags: defense , Kyiv , New York Times , Russia , Ukraine , war.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The New York Times provides a tracker showing the ones burning now , along with air quality and a smoke forecast. I guess this is the new norm. Tags: New York Times , tracker , wildfire. Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Eve Washington and John Keefe, for The New York Times, picked out the overlap between competitive races and areas it’s likely to rain. Tags: election , forecast , New York Times , weather. Mainly I post for the A+ headline: “Will Rain Affect Turnout Tomorrow? The Answer Is Cloudy.”

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