The death of “El Comandante” Hugo Chávez was arguably the top news of this week. With a long history of controversies, leadership and political achievements, the former leader of Venezuela had his life story told interactively by several news outlets. We bring you some of those visualizations, along side with others that focus on topics such as the Pope’s election, the violent storms hitting the US and more.
Here’s our Interactive Inspiration of this week:
Hugo Chavez | Tanea
How search works | Google
Comparing the Cost of Water | The Financial Times
Mind the Gap | Unesco
Power outage status in Washington | The Washington Post
Cardinals and Catholics by Country | CBC
Mary Beard on life in Pompeii and Herculaneum | The Telegraph
Fandom Wars | Internet Service Providers
Sell This Guitar
(Via Google Maps Mania)
NatWest banking crash: the Twitter storm visualised | The Guardian
Shipping U.S. Horses for Slaughter | The New York Times
atNight – Designing the City at Night | Mar Santamaria, Pablo Martínez and Jordi Bari
(Via Information Aesthetics)
Catholics in the world | 20 minutos.es
Disease and death around the world visualised | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
(Via Guardian data Blog)
Next Pope | AJ
(Via Flowing data)
Google Spectrum Database | Google
Comparing the Cost of Water | The Texas Tribune
NBA beer prices | Andy Kriebel
Obesity around the world | Jeff Clark
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
Driving the Dow | The Wall Street Journal
Big Blog Map
(Via Google Maps Mania)
Horse Meat in Europe | Will Taylor
English clubs a fading force in the Champions League | The Telegraph
Clean Air Asia
(Via Google Maps Mania)
Hugo Chávez: From Coup Leader to President | The Wall Street Journal
US baseball stars immortalised in statue | Sheffield University
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
The Coffee Locator
(Via Google Maps Mania)
And last week’s featured graphics:
Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters Map | CBC News
(Via Google Maps Mania)
Meteorite Fragments Hit Russia | Ria Novosti
Where the nation’s highest earners live | The Washington Post
What’s in a name? Visualised | The Guardian Digital Agency
Every Recorded Meteorite Impact on Earth | Health Intelligence
Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut | The New York Times
Terror Attacks in India | The Wall Street Journal
#Infographics Tweet Stream | Hisham Alssadi
The Evolution of the Personal Computer | WebHosting Buzz
Top 50 US Colleges & Universities | GenYMedium
Research tools students are likely to use | Joe Mako
A sea of…tweets | Carlo Zapponi
Don’t Be A UX Statistic | Vitamin Talent
Valentines Day Spending | Deseret News
The 117 Men Who Will Choose the Next Pope | The New York Times
Twitter’s languages of New York | James Cheshire, Ed Manley and Oliver O’Brien
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
Mariano Rajoy’s speech | 20minutos
Who Supplies Apple? | China File
A History of Heinz | The Wall Street Journal
We’ll be back next week with another selection of interactive graphics, so feel free to send us the links to your works through Twitter or Facebook.