The UK’s Office for National Statistics has published a series of dynamically generated visual articles showcasing how populations have changed across the United Kingdom. It is a great illustration of the power of templated approaches to visual storytelling, with each story rendering its own copy depending on its data and its neighbors.

In addition, the story itself features powerful animations, smoothly transitioning from maps, to barcharts, to histograms.

This article from Bloomberg presents “green” ratings for the most popular electric vehicles available. A table (which includes illustrations of each car) presents important metrics like range, battery size, and base price.

Near the bottom of the article, the authors allow for “comparison shopping” to see how different vehicles rank in a scatterplot, which can be dynamically updated according to the user’s interests.

A series of photographs, maps, and charts by the NYT showcase the shrinking of the American middle class between 1990 and 2020. In particular, this story shows how “middle-class” neighborhoods are becoming less and less occupied, providing further evidence of widening income inequality in the United States.

This simple barchart from CNN makes clear that wildfires spike around the Fourth of July, as fires are discovered disproportionately often in the days after. We liked the author’s description: “Some charts are like great photojournalism: They tell a powerful story at a glance.”

This great article from the Washington Post visually showcases the relationship between gun purchases and gun deaths. It shows how gun violence is an enduring problem that is felt differently by people of different races, and in different places.

By showcasing gun laws, gun purchases, and gun deaths in one small multiples map, the interwoven nature of gun violence and its correlates is made abundantly clear.