In 2022, the Guardian US visuals crew used information to inform tales starting from the results of our warming planet to voter disenfranchisement and abortion deserts. When our reporting led us to some extent too advanced for phrases we crafted information graphics to simplify and inform. Under are 9 tales that characterize our greatest work of the 12 months.
The world’s farms lack biodiversity – they produce solely a handful of sorts of bananas, avocados, espresso and different meals. This monoculture leaves crops susceptible to floods, droughts and illness. Beginning with bananas, we visualized how the growing lack of range among the many meals we eat can result in crop loss and malnutrition.
Information visualization: Alvin Chang
A groundbreaking examine by citizen scientists surveyed the temperature of New York Metropolis streets, utilizing information to outline the boundaries of local weather inequality. Neighborhoods within the Bronx with little tree cowl have been on common 8F (4.5C) hotter than the wealthier and extra canopied Higher West Facet. We created a heatmap to focus on the areas most affected by harmful warmth.
Information visualization: Aliya Uteuova
Each 10 years congressional redistricting brings a give attention to gerrymandering, the method of manipulating political boundaries to learn a celebration. Utilizing demographic and voting information we created a sequence of tales to assist readers perceive how this deliberately complicated course of disenfranchises voters. This story visualizes how Democratic-leaning Nashville, Tennessee, was dismantled into three Republican-favored districts.
Information visualization: Andrew Witherspoon
The US skilled a historic heatwave this summer time. An alarming pattern exhibits common temperatures have elevated by a minimum of 2F since 1970. Utilizing a spike map of main American cities we centered on the almost-universal warming pattern, with the very best spikes within the west and south-west.
Information visualization: Aliya Uteuova
Final-mile warehouses are bobbing up throughout the US, enabling the moment gratification of on-line deliveries. Working with Client Reviews and native citizen scientists, we collected and visualized air high quality and site visitors sensor information to trace the impact of those warehouses on the Purple Hook neighborhood of New York Metropolis.
Information visualization: Andrew Witherspoon, Aliya Uteuova
When the US supreme courtroom ended the federal proper to abortion in June, entry to abortion companies grew to become way more uneven for girls throughout the nation. Some already had sparse entry, however with total states anticipated to ban abortion we wished to visually contextualize how far girls must journey. Utilizing delicate clinic location information we mapped the gap from every US county to the closest accessible clinic and charted the typical improve in distance for every state.
Information visualization: Andrew Witherspoon, Alvin Chang
As the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic reached its second 12 months, we wished to step again and try the bigger image. Two years of knowledge allowed for extra full conclusions in regards to the regional peaks and valleys of caseloads, the racial disparities in dying charges, and plateaued vaccine adoption.
Information visualization: Andrew Witherspoon
The Guardian analyzed a whole lot of inside paperwork that exposed the chemical large Syngenta was conscious their weedkiller Paraquat might result in Parkinson’s illness. To indicate the pervasiveness of the weedkiller, we mapped the chemical’s agricultural use within the US over time.
Information visualization: Aliya Uteuova
Because the world comes dangerously near the 1.5C (2.7F) post-industrial warming threshold set within the Paris settlement, we wished to discover the disaster at a extra native stage. We mapped temperatures of US counties in 48 states, discovering a minimum of 499 counties which have already reached 1.5C. To indicate the populations most affected we made a stacked bar chart sized by every state’s inhabitants and coloured by temperature improve.
Information visualization: Andrew Witherspoon
For extra information visuals, learn a few of the prolific work from our UK colleagues this 12 months. They’ve coated the affect of the struggle in Ukraine on the world’s meals provide, a timeline of Covid within the UK, and the cash behind England’s water system. See the entire Guardian’s interactives right here.
