The 270 people connected to the Russia probes
PoliticoProbably the most comprehensive overview on this topic to date.
Data visualisation
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How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2017?
The New York TimesA complex issue, lots of data points, packed into one graphic, making it easy to understand and compelling to explore. I’m impressed.
The Demographics of Others
FlowingdataCensus data is often boring – but only until you make it tangible. A simple interactive visualisation to see how many people are like you, and unlike you.
We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.
FiveThirtyEightAn interesting attempt at creating a new set of tests to measure how equally genders are represented in movies, raising the bar from the intentionally low level set by the Bechdel test (Need a primer on the Bechdel test? Look no further)
How I, the New York Times election needle, turned failure into my greatest advantage
QuartzI love how a NYT election visualisation has entered pop culture. This is the hommage it deserves.
Off the Staff
C82Pieces of classical music, visualised in an inventive and beautiful way.
Mass Exodus
ReutersThe scale of the Rohingya crisis, visualised. Unimaginable.
Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime.
The Washington PostI think I’ve seen every single explanatory piece on the upcoming solar eclipse. This was one of the first and it still puts everybody else in the shade. A clever approach, brilliantly executed.
Published in Weekly Filet #243
In collection: Best of 2017
Shadow Peace I
Neil HalloranRemember «The Fallen of World War II»? Its creator is back with a new project, «a web series that combines data-visualization and cinematic storytelling to explore the driving factors of war and peace». Impressive.