Closing the week here’s our usual interactive round-up. And it’s quite an assorted selection today, ranging from topics like the U.S. elections and the Premier League to North Korea and China’s leadership changes. But no doubt the main story of the week was the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy.
So, here’s how some of the main news outlets illustrated the news in interactive way:
Assessing the Damage From Hurricane Sandy | The New York Times
(image: The New York Times)
Guatemalan Crime & Justice | Plaza Pública
(From Tableau’s Viz of the Day. Original here.)
Superstorm Sandy: every verified event mapped and detailed | The Guardian
(image: The Guardian)
Seeds of Change | Citizen Access
(image: Citizen Access)
The Income Estimates Map | UK Office for National Statistics
(image: UK Office for National Statistics)
(Seen on Google Maps Mania)
November is the cruellest month for managers in the Premier League | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
Economic Development Aid | The Globe and Mail
Fiscal Federalism by the Numbers | Pew Center
(image: Pew Center)
(Seen on Chart Porn)
White Students in Minneapolis Schools | The Star Tribune
(image: Star Tribune)
Every wind farm site in the UK | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
37 years of Saturday Night Live | Cable
(image: Cable TV)
Political Engagement Map | Twitter
(image: Twitter)
(Seen on Information Aesthetics)
Visualizing intensity of final debate | Boston Globe
(image: Alvin Chang | The Boston Globe)
North Korea Leadership Tracker | NK News
(image: North Korea News)
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
Vacation like a… | Slate
(image: Slate)
Geocoded Tweets Mentioning Flooding | Oxford Internet Institute
(image: Oxford Internet Institute)
Where the Jobs Are | The USA Today
(image: Doug Carroll, Anthony DeBarros, Kristin DeRamus, Ray Goldbacher, Barbara Hansen, Chuck Rose; Erin Sansone; Juan Thomassie | USA Today)
China’s Leadership Change | The Wall Street Journal
(image: The Wall Street Journal)
Storm surge | The LA Times
(image: LA Times)
James Bond by numbers | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
The Future of U.S. Manufacturing | Nicholas Diakopoulos
(image: Nicholas Diakopoulos)
City Costs | Residential Land
(image: Residential Land)
Global flow of tertiary-level students | UNESCO
(image: UNESCO)
The Global Innovation 1000: Comparison of R&D Spending | Booz & Company
(image: Booz & Company)
Bond – licence to drive | Evans Halshaw
(image: Evans Walshaw)
2012 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards | Condé Nast Traveler
(image: Condé Nast Traveler)
Compare Hurricane Sandy to Irene | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
Before and After Sandy | The Wall Street Journal
(image: The Wall Street Journal)
Dave Barry’s scariest things about South Florida | The Miami Herald
(image: Marco Ruiz | The Miami Herald)
When income grows, who gains | The State of Working America
(image: The State of Working America)
And last week’s selection:
Tracking decades of allegations in the Boy Scouts | L.A Times
(image: LA Times)
(HT to Flowing Data)
Top 10 Sources of Foods Poisoning | Ria Novosti
(image: Ria Novosti)
The Newest Voter ID Laws | The New York Times
(image: Bill Marsh | The New York Times)
Tracking Candidate Spending | Neue Zürcher Zeitung
(Via Tableau Daily Viz. Original here)
Pedestrian Monitoring System Data Visualization | OOM Creative
(image: OOM Creative)
(Seen on Information Aesthetics)
The One Million Tweet Map | Maptimize
(image: Maptimize)
(Thanks to @Catarino for sending this one)
Outside Spending in Key House Races | The New York Times
(image: The New York Times)
Occupational Outlook | GOOD
(image: GOOD)
Immigrant languages in Canada | Global news
(Full article here)
India’s Biodiversity Map | Biodiversity India
(image: Biodiversity India)
(Seen on Google Maps Mania)
State Cycling Statistics | Byke Guard
(image: BikeGuard)
English Constituency Boundaries: Current & Proposed | UCL CASA
(image: UCL CASA)
(Thanks to Visualising Data for finding this one)
Politilines | Periscopic
(image: Periscopic)
The Sochi 2014 Torch Relay | Ria Novosti
(image: Ria Novosti)
Mapping the BBC’s price of football data | Robert Murray
(image: Robert Murray)
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
Bad Health Habits Are on the Rise | Scientific American
(image: Scientific American)
Hurricane Sandy | Google Crisis Response
(image: Google Crisis Response)
(Another HT to Google Maps Mania)
Uneven US Housing Recovery | Zillow
(Via Tableau Daily Viz. Full post here.)
Chronology of the Armstrong Case | 20minutos.es
(image: Carlos Gámez | 20.Minutos)
Vanishing Elephants | National Geographic
(image: National Geographic)
Which US candidate suits you? | Al Jazeera
(image: Al Jazeera)
The World’s Nuclear Stockpile | The State of the USA
(As seen on Tableau Daily Viz. Original here.)
Under the sea | David Boardman and Paolo Gerbaudo
(image: David Boardman and Paolo Gerbaudo)
(Seen on Data Driven Journalism)
Audio graphic: US election TV debates | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
Navigating Windows 8 | The Wall Street Journal
(image: The Wall Street Journal)
Lance Armstrong: How Tour de France’s recent past has been decimated by doping | The Telegraph
(image: The Telegraph)
The Concerns of Older Voters | The Bangor Daily News
(Another pick from Tableuau Daily Viz. Original here)
President Vladimir Putin’s Life and Milestones | Ria Novosti
(image: Ria Novosti)
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Written by Tiago Veloso
Tiago Veloso is the founder and editor of Visualoop and Visualoop Brasil . He is Portuguese, currently based in Bonito, Brazil.
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