ALT A world map showing visa overstay rates for students and other exchange guests in the United States. Colored circles represent the percentages, revealing a trend of higher rates for many African and Asian countries. Published by Deena Zaidi.

ALT An animated map of North America tracking wildfire smoke density, origins and displacement by wind. Published by the Financial Times.

ALT A line chart comparing different projected scenarios for wind and solar energy capacities in the UK, showing how they are likely to exceed the current demand. Published by CarbonBrief.

ALT A map of the world’s oceans with overlays of areas experiencing ocean surface heat waves in May 2025. Much of the map is affected, with a trend line showing peaks and a general rise in recent years. Published by The New York Times.

ALT A split bar chart showing median months between a film’s premiere and its theatrical release and between theatrical release and home release (as e.g. DVD, Blue-ray, digital download, or on streaming services/TV). We can see that the time to wait for home releases decreases after Netflix gets introduced.

ALT Stacked area charts detailing the number of data centers built from 1997 to 2025 in different countries. Facilities in regions with high water stress levels are shown in red; they make up the majority or entirety in most countries. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT A graphic comparing U.S. defense contractors by contract volumes. Newer defense tech firms like Anduril are gaining traction, but are still nowhere near the order sizes of established companies like Lockheed Martin. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT A flow diagram illustrating rulings on Trump’s executive orders at different levels of the U.S. court system. Out of 139 short-term and 76 long-term orders, a large majority have been blocked by the courts. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT A chart showing the military vehicles and weapons shown in Russia’s Victory Day parades 2021–2024. The amount of equipment has declined to less than half of what was shown in 2021. Published in The Economist.

ALT Small multiple column chart showing UK Government spending as shares of GDP between 1970 and 2020 in the Health, Education, and Defence category. It shows, for example, that health spending in 2020/21 was £179 billion higher than pre-pandemic plans, and that education spending as a share of GDP peaked in 2009 and has declined since.

ALT Small multiple column chart of the population of the world's largest cities, 1950-2035. It shows that Delhi, Dhaka and Mumbai grow the most, while Tokyo peaked at around 2020. Paris was once the biggest city, but not anymore – it grew the most between 1851 to 1856 (by over 20%).

ALT Small multiple column chart of countries with higher and lower education spending than the world average. Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and others spend more, while Ireland, Italy, China, India, Russia, and others spend less than the world average.

ALT Small multiple column chart showing that German Baby Boomers use Facebook the most – 57% of them use it. 50% use YouTube; 32% use Instagram; 18% use Pinterest.

ALT A hand-drawn map of North America on a ginkgo leaf using the Albers equal-area conic projection. Published by Atlas Guo on Bluesky.

ALT Two world maps with blue lines showing approximate distances from Taiwan to various locations where navy warships can reload missiles. The left map focuses on the western Pacific region, showing 800 miles to Japan and 2,000 miles to Australia. The right map shows greater distances in the northern and southern Pacific, including 10,000 miles to Pago Pago in American Samoa. Published in The Wall Street Journal.

ALT An isotype chart comparing sales of electric vehicles with conventional (internal combustion) engine cars. Each car icon represents 10,000 cars sold. The chart highlights that 2.7 million combustion engine cars were sold in 2023, compared to just 1.7 million electric, with notable sales in Latin America and the Middle East. The text notes that China's gasoline cars were popular in middle- and lower-income countries due to their cost-effectiveness. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT A packed circle chart illustrating different foods and their respective weights in grams. The foods include mangosteen (38.5g), cocoa powder (13g), avocado (14g), and more. Each food item is represented by a circular icon with a cute illustration. The size of each circle proportional to the weight of the item. Published in Graphicacy.

ALT Small multiple maps show ships connected side by side in the South China Sea, indicating possible illicit oil transfers. The number of possible transfers has more than doubled over the five years shown, from 204 (5% of ships) in 2020 to 570 (10.3%) in 2024. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT An elevation map of the moon's surface, using dots on a grayscale from dark to light. Created by Phoebe Ly.

ALT A map of the Gulf of Mexico drawn in the style of Keith Haring. From Mapbox.

ALT Colored wooden discs represent groupings of peers in the House of Lords, including bishops and crossbenchers as well as political parties. Published in Tortoise Media.

ALT A small multiple bars chart showing C02 emissions of big tech companies up to 2030, with actual, projected, and target values. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT A map of Valencia highlighting roads and transport infrastructure damaged by floods, with almost all lines affected. Published in Le Monde.

ALT A stream graph showing delegates from the world at U.N climate summits (1995 to 2024), highlighting key peaks and growth. Published in New York Times.

ALT A Sankey diagram visualizing export volumes and crude oil exports from Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, and the UAE. Published in Der Spiegel.

ALT A chart comparing officially recorded and unrecorded deaths in Gaza. Small marks represent the 3000 deaths in the first 17 days of war; 30% of marks are grayed out, representing unrecorded deaths. Two individuals are highlighted — Muhammad Nabil Saadat, whose death was recorded, and his cousin Ismail, whose death was not. Published in The Washington Post.

ALT A map of northern Gaza annotated with reported Israeli strikes that Airwars has matched with geolocated video. Eight strikes that were matched with allegations of civilian harm are highlighted, with the linked footage visible in the map. Published by Airwars.

ALT Map of municipal election results in the São Paulo area. Several "ideological islands" are highlighted and explained. Published in the Folha de S.Paulo.

ALT Map of Harlem with the location of the Clam House speakeasy highlighted on West 133rd Street. A panel to the right shows a photograph of Gladys Bentley, a popular singer and "famous lesbian" of the Harlem Renaissance era who often performed at the Clam House, wearing a white tuxedo. Published in The New York Times.

ALT Symbol map of the United States with squares representing the number of immigration court cases in each county. Each square is also colored in blue or red, depending on that county’s vote in the 2020 presidential election. Many more immigrants went to Biden countries than Trump ones. Published in Bloomberg.

ALT Pairs of maps display territories of indigenous peoples in the Amazon awaiting state recognition, including their surrounding 10 km buffer zones. The pairs show the extent of external agriculture and deforestation in 1985 and 2022. In all eight territories, deforestation and agriculture are now encroaching more deeply into the buffer zone, in some cases reaching the borders of the indigenous territories themselves. Published in InfoAmazonia.

ALT A line graph illustrating the development of South Korea's national pension system from 1988 to 2058. The lines track two key values: the percentage of current income that working individuals contribute to the pension and the percentage of their previous income that retirees receive. The contribution rate rises from 3% in 1988 to 9% from 1998 on, while the payout rate declines from 70% in 1988 to 40% by 2028. Published in SBS News.

ALT Many small satellite images of pink-colored outdoor basketball courts in the U.S. This interactive site features 59,507 basketball courts across the country, allowing users to filter the courts by color, give them “likes,” and add annotations. Published in The Pudding.

ALT The data visualization consists of a pictorial representation of two city skylines, each containing 10 buildings. It shows the proportion of earthquake-resistant buildings in South Korea (left) and Japan (right). The proportion of seismically safe buildings in South Korea is 16.4%. Accordingly, about 2 out of 10 houses in the city are marked in color. In Japan, the proportion is 87%, or 9 out of 10 houses. Published by SBS News.

ALT A columnchart showing the number of nurseries and early childhood education facilities in Rio from 2008 to 2023. The columns are labeled with the respective mayor. The number of facilities increased to 491 by 2014, and dropped to 288 under Eduardo Paes 2. In 2023, the number had not yet returned to the previous level. Published in Gênero e Número.

ALT Bar chart depicting the reading habits of European countries. It shows the percentage of a country's population that has read at least one book in the last year. The bars are made up of books colored according to the number of books read (less than 5, 5 to 9, and 10 or more). At the top of the list is Switzerland, where 81% of the population have read one book in the last year and around a third have read more than 10 books. Published by theeuropeancorrespondent.

ALT Four column charts show novel sales in various categories from 2020 to 2023: General Fiction, Suspense & Thrillers, Romance, and Fantasy. The columns consist of books, with each book representing 1 million novels sold. While general fiction increased only slightly at 16% and suspense at 10%, romance and fantasy grew tremendously with 116% to 163% more books sold per genre. Published by Bloomberg.