When Data Makes the Story — DataViz Weekly
March 27th, 2026 by AnyChart Team
Data has stories to tell. Visualization helps them reach us. Continuing our regular DataViz Weekly feature, we are happy to share new examples of how that works in the real world. Here’s what caught our attention these days:
- Strait of Hormuz oil and gas flows — The New York Times
- Rural hospital crisis in the United States — Reuters
- Arrests of immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children — ProPublica
- U.S. state-to-state migration flows — Will Sigal
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From Personal Grocery Receipts to Global Data Centers — DataViz Weekly
March 20th, 2026 by AnyChart Team
Data is everywhere, but what it means is rarely obvious on its own. DataViz Weekly is back with four projects that illustrate how good visuals help close that gap. Featured today:
- 25 years of egg prices — John Rush
- Jobs most at risk from AI — The Washington Post
- Bahía Blanca flood reconstruction — LA NACION
- Global data center expansion — Environmental Reporting Collective
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Data Graphics That Caught Our Eye This Week — DataViz Weekly
February 13th, 2026 by AnyChart Team
Welcome back to DataViz Weekly! This is our regular roundup of data graphics we think are worth opening and looking at closely. Here is what made the cut this week:
- Bluesky following clusters — Theo Sanderson
- Quadruple axel in figure skating — The New York Times
- Winter sports access across the United States — The Washington Post
- Climate vulnerability vs. social protection — SNRD AP, GIZ, and Revisual Labs
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How Visualization Reveals Meaning in Data — DataViz Weekly
October 24th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Visualization is a well-established way to translate complex data into a form people can quickly understand, making patterns, trends, and outliers easier to see. Depending on the nature of the data and the questions behind it, different techniques may be used. DataViz Weekly is here with a few fresh, illustrative examples from the real world:
- AI industry interconnections — De Tijd
- Funding halt across Democratic and Republican districts — The New York Times
- TikTok watch-time trends — The Washington Post
- Sea temperatures and anomalies worldwide — Gary Oberbrunner
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New Data Stories Driven by Visualization — DataViz Weekly
August 22nd, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Visual graphics often play a crucial role in revealing the stories hidden in data. They help untangle complex realities while highlighting insights that might otherwise be hard to grasp. This edition of DataViz Weekly showcases recent articles where robust visualization of data drives effective storytelling:
- Donor age in U.S. political fundraising — On Data and Democracy
- Migration across the Mediterranean — Reuters
- Wildfires in Spain — Colpisa
- Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash, 40 years ago — Nikkei
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Data Visualization in Action: Fresh Examples — DataViz Weekly
February 14th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
We’re back with DataViz Weekly, where we showcase some of the best new data visualization examples — from individual charts and maps to full-scale visual stories and projects. Take a look at our latest picks:
- Swiss research funding — Colas Droin
- Education and voting patterns in U.S. presidential elections — Jon Boeckenstedt
- City walkability and improvement potential — The Economist & Matteo Bruno et al.
- Self-censorship in Super Bowl halftime shows — Artur Galocha for The Washington Post
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Awesome New Data Visualization Works — DataViz Weekly
November 15th, 2024 by AnyChart Team
Welcome back to DataViz Weekly, where we spotlight the most awesome data visualization works we have recently come across. Check out the projects we’re diving into this time:
- Love songs: death or evolution? — The Pudding
- Historical dry streaks in NYC — Bloomberg Green
- NYC subway ridership in detail — Subway Stories
- Vote swings in U.S. presidential elections — NYT
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Building Bubble Chart with JavaScript
August 1st, 2023 by Awan Shrestha
Do you want to turn that data chaos into a comprehensible data show? Look no further than data visualization! And let me tell you, one chart to rule them all is the bubble chart. It's like blowing bubbles at your data and watching them pop into understanding! And the best part? With JavaScript, you can easily create an interactive bubble chart, and I will show you how!
Bubble charts are versatile data visualizations that display data points in the form of bubbles, where the bubbles' size, color, and position represent different variables. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through building these graphics step by step, making the process a breeze. For illustration, we'll take data on the popularity of various YouTube videos and use JavaScript to create an interactive bubble chart showcasing the top 30 most-liked videos of all time, categorized by year of release, views, and likes.
By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to create visually-stunning JS-based bubble charts without any hassle. So let's dive into the world of data bubbles and turn numbers into a visual feast for the eyes!
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How to Make Bubble Maps in JavaScript
November 16th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
Map charts are a great way to put data in a geographical context. And they are not difficult to create! I am eager to demonstrate that by walking you through the creation of a bubble map, one of the most popular types data maps, with the help of JavaScript.
A bubble map is a combination of a bubble chart and a geographical map. It uses circles of different sizes (and sometimes colors) to indicate numeric values relating to locations or territories.
In this tutorial, I will be visualizing the data on gasoline prices across the United States. They saw record highs this summer after a surge fueled by the outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine conflict. The first, basic bubble map will display the gas prices in July by state. The final one will add the magnitude of the change since February 23, one day before Russia launched an attack on Ukraine.
Follow along and you’ll learn to build beautiful interactive maps in JS with ease and no problem!
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Tokyo Olympics Medal Trackers — DataViz Weekly
August 6th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
Delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly referred to simply as Tokyo 2020 have been underway for two weeks and are already coming to a close, with under 50 medal sets yet to be distributed over the remaining two days.
In this special edition of DataViz Weekly, we are happy to showcase four wonderful Olympic medal trackers providing an insightful view of medal counts and country standings with the help of telling visualizations — from Bloomberg News, The New York Times’s The Upshot, FiveThirtyEight, and Axios.
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