Claire Cain Miller, Josh Katz, Francesca Paris, and Aatish Bhatia highlight a new study that concludes that friendship between poor and rich children reduces inequality.

They use maps and scatterplots to illustrate where people are more likely to form “economic connectedness” and how this impacts their income as adults. When poorer people forge friendships with wealthier people and bond with them, they’re more likely to move up the economic ladder.

A less narrative-driven, more exploratory view of the data—which was put together by Darkhorse Analytics—can be found here.

Policy Impacts, Opportunity Insights, and the U.S. Census Bureau have teamed with Darkhorse Analytics to create a website analyzing how far young adults move between the ages of 16 and 24. It features an interactive map that enables users to explore this particular movement based on various income levels, race and ethnicity, and locations around the country.

The Washington Post and Climate Central have collaborated on this piece to show how recent record-breaking temperatures in Western Europe translate to temperatures experienced in American cities. Through beeswarm charts, readers can grasp how hot London, Hamburg, and Dublin got in July and compare them to popular metropolitan areas in the United States.

For Bloomberg, Fola Akinnibi and Raeedah Wahid explore the landscape of crime in New York and residents’ concerns around it. The combo of charts showcases that, despite what locals perceive, crime is historically low. Politicians and the proliferation of crime coverage on digital and traditional media are inflating fears of otherwise low levels of crime.

This fun project by Odd Studio answers the following question: who should I follow to learn more about data visualization? The team analyzed the results of DVS’s 2021 State of the Industry Survey to find the influential figures in the field, according to the data viz community.