Best Data Visualizations of 2025 — DataViz Weekly
January 9th, 2026 by AnyChart Team
In 2025, data visualization kept proving its value as a practical way to work through complexity without losing the thread. From conflict and humanitarian crises to climate risks, technology, culture, and long-running social trends, charts and maps helped people see structure, scale, and change more clearly.
This special edition of DataViz Weekly brings together the best data visualizations of 2025 as selected in major year-end picks. It features selections from FlowingData, GIJN, The Pudding, and Datawrapper, followed by a set of newsroom year-in-graphics roundups for more storytelling standouts from across the year.
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Data Visuals That Stood Out to Us This Week — DataViz Weekly
December 12th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Welcome to DataViz Weekly, where we highlight strong examples of data visualization in action. Take a look at the projects that stood out to us this week:
- Global defense industry at record highs — Reuters
- Climate-driven rise in home insurance costs — The New York Times
- Interactive Star Wars galaxy map — Tim Sircoloumb
- Sizes of life on Earth — Neal Agarwal
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Compelling New Data Visualizations From Around the Web — DataViz Weekly
October 31st, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Data becomes much easier to explore and explain when it is shown visually. If you want to see how that plays out in practice, you are in the right place. Welcome to DataViz Weekly, where we round up the most interesting charts and maps we have spotted over the past week. Featuring this time:
- Solar pressure on Europe’s power grid — Bloomberg
- China’s trade rise over two decades — Folha de S.Paulo
- Sleep deprivation in wartime Ukraine — Texty.org.ua
- Cats’ laziness — Lisa Hornung
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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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Recent Data Visualization Highlights — DataViz Weekly
October 17th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Welcome back to DataViz Weekly, where we regularly observe how visualization helps bring data to life. This time, we invite you to take a look at the following projects that we have recently found particularly interesting:
- Bird journeys amid global warming — The Guardian
- Living costs across the United States — FlowingData
- Electricity prices across the U.S. in the AI era — The Big Take
- Urban patterns in Europe — Urban Taxonomy
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Great New Visuals Letting Data Speak — DataViz Weekly
October 10th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Raw data can be difficult to read and interpret at a glance. Charts and maps make it easier to see what it has to say. We continue to curate great new visuals in our regular series DataViz Weekly, and here’s our latest selection:
- Causes of death in reality and in media — Our World in Data
- EU healthcare priorities — European Data Portal
- U.S. school system redistricting — New America
- Religious mixing in Australian marriages — ABC News
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Fresh Examples of Data Visualization in Action — DataViz Weekly
October 3rd, 2025 by AnyChart Team
When data needs to be explored or explained, visualization helps. Here are several fresh examples of how that works in practice. On the agenda in DataViz Weekly today:
- U.S. federal funding and shutdowns — The New York Times
- H-1B workers at U.S. research institutions — The Xylom
- USAID medical supply disruptions — The Washington Post
- Daytime air alerts in Kyiv — CNN
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When Data Becomes Visual Insight — DataViz Weekly
September 12th, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Numbers often stay abstract until they are put into form. Visuals can help reveal what is hidden in plain figures, generating insight and bringing meaning to the surface. In this edition of DataViz Weekly, we offer a quick look at four recent projects that turn data into something we, humans, can truly see and grasp more clearly.
- Pay across occupations — FlowingData
- Billionaires in America — WSJ
- Africa’s real size — Reuters
- Zodiac signs out of sync — The Upshot
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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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When Data Becomes Visual Insight — DataViz Weekly
May 23rd, 2025 by AnyChart Team
Seeing data is not the same as understanding it — that is where visualization makes the difference. This edition of DataViz Weekly features fresh examples showing how insight emerges when numbers are presented thoughtfully. Whether you work with data or just follow it, here’re four new projects we thought you wouldn’t want to miss:
- Aviation incidents in America — CNN
- County population across the United States — Kyle Walker
- Cuts in U.S. science funding — The Upshot
- Measles vaccination impact — Our World in Data
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