We recently came across this 2017 project by Mauro Martino, Hendrik Strobelt, Owen Cornec, and Evan Phibbs called Forma Fluens—Latin for Flowing Form—where they analyzed QuickDraw drawings from 34 countries.

The drawings are divided into categories and each category is divided by country to display its convergence or divergence. Through these images, users can see how people from different parts of the world see similar objects and how they remember them.

This article from the team at the SF Chronicle features great visualizations to illustrate the problem of racial profiling in California police stops. In particular, it features an animated chart showcasing police stops by race, to bring to life the available data. It is also complemented by simpler bar charts, and photography.

A team of researchers from the International Institute for Strategic Studies has created the Myanmar Conflict Map to highlight acts of violence in the country since the 2021 military coup.

Readers can view a map of Myanmar and use filters to explore six war zones and learn who was behind these violent attacks. The piece also includes a graph that shows the type of attacks and frequency from July 2020 to July 2022. It features development from Brody Smith; read more about his process here.

For this NYT Opinion piece, Peter Coy has teamed up with graphics journalists Sara Chodosh, Zach Levitt, and Gus Wezerek to dissect why children of immigrants have higher rates of economic mobility than the children of people born in the U.S.

Among its great visuals is a clever stairs animation which perfectly reflects the upward climb of children of immigrants compared to children of U.S.-born parents.

The team at the Washington Post has come together to report on how climate change is making the summer dangerously hotter for a longer time.

They combine maps, graphics, and images to showcase how the season, over the years, has gotten extremely hot, with things worsening around the U.S.