Another long seven-day wait is over, and DataViz Weekly ‘s already here to introduce you to new awesome data visualizations we have met these days around the Web. Let’s see what we’ve got this time!

• COVID-19 growth rates in each U.S. county — Benjamin Schmidt
• World development indicators — The World Bank
• Timelines for new and all current federal judges — ProPublica
• Colors of the U.S. election maps on different media — SBS News

COVID-19 Growth Rates in Each U.S. County

Rotation turns out to be a powerful animated data visualization technique. Check it out. Benjamin Schmidt, Director of Digital Humanities at New York University, created an impressive map that shows COVID-19 cases across the United States of America over time. …

DataViz Weekly is back — check out some of the most interesting third-party data visualization projects we have recently come across! Let’s start with a quick list and then take a closer look at each:

• Electricity generation in America since 2001 — NYT
• Subreddits in word clouds — Mais Hatem
• Hate crimes in the United States — UCLA
• McDonald’s ice cream machine status — Rashiq Zahid

Electricity Generation in America Since 2001

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/28/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state-election.html

The way the United States generates electricity is changing. To visualize shifts in America’s energy mix over the last two decades, The New York Times used the ribbon chart technique which appears (or is known) to be greatly illustrative and helpful in such data analysis. …

A Venn diagram is a form of data visualization that uses shapes, generally circles, to show the relationships among groups of things. In this chart type, overlapping areas show commonalities while circles that do not overlap show the traits that are not shared.

Introduced by John Venn, an English mathematician, logician, and philosopher, Venn diagrams are also called set diagrams or logic diagrams since they show possible logical relations between elements of different sets. …

All eyes on election maps! Yes, they could be misleading. And even widely misleading. But it can be at least so fascinating to look at them, especially at times like this! So, we have curated a list of over twenty reputable resources — as of now, to be precise, 24 and counting! — where you can watch the live results of the 2020 United States Presidential election in compelling data visualizations. At the same time, it is a great chance for you to investigate and understand how election maps (and some other graphics) can look and work in practice.

Vote counts may be different on different platforms and update as more data becomes available out there — it’s absolutely okay. The election results are still partial. Over the coming days, all numbers will be adjusted to match the real, final vote count. Just in case: We’ve added only reliable sources — notable, reputable media outlets. …

With November 3rd just around the corner, we could not resist the temptation to devote an entire Friday article to the 2020 U.S. election. Indeed, there are many great new data visualization projects on this topic that are worth featuring. Check out some of the most interesting ones in the special pre-election edition of DataViz Weekly:

• Visualizing data about donations to Biden’s and Trump’s campaigns — The New York Times
• Charting the latest Electoral College ratings — The Cook Political Report
• Exploring election forecast correlations — Adam Pearce
• Analyzing search interest in the U.S. …

While thousands of companies choose AnyChart to operate interactive data visualization in commercial projects, we are especially proud our charting solutions have been put for good use in education. Here’s a great new case, for example.

Have you heard about Flippity? It is a fascinating free web project providing teachers (and students) with an extremely straightforward way to turn Google Sheets’ spreadsheets into something cool and useful in the education process — flashcards, quizzes, games, timelines, leaderboards, random name pickers, progress indicators, and many other online things. …

Meet a set of new amazing visualizations we’ve spotted and admired lately. Below is a list of the projects featured today on DataViz Weekly. Keep reading to learn about each and then check them out right away.

• Global COVID-19 crisis in data — FT
• Twisty roads worldwide — Adam Franco
• Ways Biden or Trump could win — FiveThirtyEight
• Electoral College Decision Tree — Kerry Rodden

Global COVID-19 Crisis in Data

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-global-data/

As the pandemic resurges, threatening to raise the global death toll even higher this fall than during the first wave, The Financial Times put together all the most important data about the crisis to tell us the story of the crisis. …

We know DataViz Weekly is read on a regular basis by data visualization practitioners from many countries, and we are happy you guys find it interesting and helpful. Are you ready for another bunch of new great data graphics projects worth looking at? There you go:

• NBA playoff win probabilities — Adam Pearce
• Fall fire weather days in California by the century’s end — ProPublica
• U.S. unemployment crisis shapes — NYT
• Deaths of despair in America — Periscopic

NBA Playoff Win Probabilities

https://roadtolarissa.com/playoff-probabilities/

The Los Angeles Lakers are back to the top of the North American basketball. Last Sunday, the Lakers won their seventeenth NBA championship overall in league history and the first title in ten years. …