Data viz journalist Erin Davis has visualized a dataset of 324 tree species that change color during the fall.

The piece contains a singular density map that shows that the East Coast has plenty of trees that transform with the season.

For Médor, a Belgium-based media company, Catherine Joie, Karim Douieb, Quentin Noirfalisse, Antoine Sanchez, and Adrien Herda explore inequalities in Brussels.

The visual storytelling article includes different types of visuals, from videos, to beeswarm charts, to cartograms, on how social inequality created a wedge between the people in the city and where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated.

In this Washington Post piece, reporter Christopher Ingraham looks at why Halloween is dangerous for children. Using a simple barchart with data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the article shows that child pedestrians are at risk of being hit by an automobile more than any other day in the year.

For FiveThirtyEight, Geoffrey Skelley and Ryan Best have teamed up with designer Emily Scherer to publish a piece about the likelihood of Republicans gaining sufficient seats in the House to control the chamber during the upcoming midterm election.

The team utilizes election statistics from 1998-2018 to predict which seats could flip to favor Republicans—or Democrats—and group the information in five cartograms. According to the results, the Republican party is in a great position to re-take the House by just flipping a few key seats.

The team at CNN has also written a piece about the 2022 midterms. Unlike the article from FiveThirtyEight, they solely focus on six states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Nevada—that President Biden flipped to his favor and have enough influence to shape the Congress next year.

The piece first gives an overview of how many seats each party has to win to gain control of each chamber. Then it examines each of the six states, providing information on what races to pay attention to and demographic information that could impact the outcome.