{"id":20413,"date":"2026-03-27T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/?p=20413"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:04:09","slug":"when-data-makes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/when-data-makes-story\/","title":{"rendered":"When Data Makes the Story \u2014 DataViz Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/when-data-makes-story\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dataviz-weekly-march-27-2026-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Collage of Charts and Maps from Four Projects Showing When Data Makes the Story\" class=\"wp-image-20420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dataviz-weekly-march-27-2026-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dataviz-weekly-march-27-2026-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dataviz-weekly-march-27-2026-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dataviz-weekly-march-27-2026.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Data has stories to tell. Visualization helps them reach us. Continuing our regular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/category\/data-visualization-weekly\/\">DataViz Weekly<\/a> feature, we are happy to share new examples of how that works in the real world. Here&#8217;s what caught our attention these days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strait of Hormuz oil and gas flows \u2014 The New York Times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural hospital crisis in the United States \u2014 Reuters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arrests of immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children \u2014 ProPublica<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. state-to-state migration flows \u2014 Will Sigal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/qlik.anychart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spreadsheets-970x250.png\" alt=\"Qlik Spreadsheets Banner\" width=\"70%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spreadsheets-970x250.png 970w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spreadsheets-970x250-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/spreadsheets-970x250-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/center>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data Visualization Weekly: March 20\u201327, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Flows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/03\/25\/business\/energy-environment\/strait-hormuz-oil-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Visualizing Data on Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Flows\" class=\"wp-image-20421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/persian-gulf-oil-gas-flow-sankey-diagram.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world. Before fighting began in late February 2026, around 80 oil and gas tankers passed through it daily, carrying roughly a quarter of the world&#8217;s seaborne oil and a fifth of its gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times visualized the supply chain that conflict has since upended using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/chartopedia\/chart-type\/sankey-diagram\/\">Sankey diagram<\/a>. It opens with origin ports and producing countries \u2014 Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and others \u2014 sized by their share of energy exported through the strait. Flows converge at the strait itself, showing the full combined volume, then branch outward to destination regions. Asia receives roughly 80% of the total. Annotations mark disruptions, and callouts on the receiving end describe specific consequences country by country: gasoline price increases in the United States, factory shutdowns in Bangladesh, fuel shortfalls forcing changes in India and Southeast Asia, and rising costs across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/03\/25\/business\/energy-environment\/strait-hormuz-oil-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a>, by Lazaro Gamio, Blacki Migliozzi, and River Akira Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rural Hospital Crisis in U.S.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/graphics\/USA-HEALTH\/RURAL-HOSPITALS\/zgpolkmdbvd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rural-hospitals-us-1024x855.png\" alt=\"Visualizing Dats on Rural Hospital Crisis in U.S.\" class=\"wp-image-20422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rural-hospitals-us-1024x855.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rural-hospitals-us-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rural-hospitals-us-768x641.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rural-hospitals-us.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 40 percent of rural hospitals in the United States operate at a loss. Hundreds are considered vulnerable to closure, and demographic and policy pressures are compounding the strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reuters built a data story grounding the crisis in numbers, presented through a variety of visualizations. A cartogram, pictured above, uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/chartopedia\/chart-type\/bubble-map\/\">bubbles<\/a> to show the share of rural hospitals at risk of closure by state. The concentration across the South and Midwest immediately clear. Using more charts and maps, the article also looks at the health profile of rural communities, the gap in services and revenue between rural and metro hospitals, and how Medicaid enrollment has shifted across administrations and shaped the landscape. Kansas runs through it as a concrete example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at the story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/graphics\/USA-HEALTH\/RURAL-HOSPITALS\/zgpolkmdbvd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>, by Sarah Slobin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arrests of Immigrant Parents of U.S. Citizen Children<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-citizen-children-mothers-detentions-1024x978.png\" alt=\"Visualizing Data on Arrests of Immigrant Parents of U.S. Citizen Children\" class=\"wp-image-20423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-citizen-children-mothers-detentions-1024x978.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-citizen-children-mothers-detentions-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-citizen-children-mothers-detentions-768x733.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-citizen-children-mothers-detentions.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New data shows that immigrant parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children were arrested and detained in the first seven months of Trump&#8217;s second term. That is roughly double the rate under the previous administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ProPublica analyzed an exclusive ICE dataset covering arrests from late 2021 through mid-2025. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/chartopedia\/chart-type\/stepline-area-chart\/\">stepped area chart<\/a> tracks monthly arrests of parents of U.S.-born children, distinguishing the Biden and Trump periods. The rise after January 2025 is immediately visible. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/chartopedia\/chart-type\/sankey-diagram\/\">Sankey diagram<\/a>, pictured above, then traces what happened to arrested mothers during equivalent seven-month windows under each administration: from arrest into detention, then splitting into those released, remaining in custody, or deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ProPublica<\/a>, by Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg, and Gabriel Sandoval, with graphics by Chris Alcantara and data reporting contribution by Al Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U.S. State-to-State Migration Flows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willsigal.github.io\/state-migration-analysis\/migration_flow_3d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-internal-migration-between-states-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Visualizing Data on U.S. State-to-State Migration Flows\" class=\"wp-image-20424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-internal-migration-between-states-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-internal-migration-between-states-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-internal-migration-between-states-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/us-internal-migration-between-states.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of Americans move between states every year. The patterns of where people go \u2014 and in what volume \u2014 shift over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Sigal built an animated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/chartopedia\/chart-type\/flow-map\/\">flow map<\/a> based on U.S. Census data, representing internal migration corridors as continuous streams of moving dots from origin to destination. Dot density and band width are volume-weighted: busy corridors produce denser, more active flows, while quieter ones run sparse. A playback control steps through the data year by year, revealing how patterns shift over time. You can also control what gets visible on the map, such as selecting a specific state, switching between inflows, outflows, or both, or highlighting a top corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore the map <a href=\"https:\/\/willsigal.github.io\/state-migration-analysis\/migration_flow_3d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wrapping Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The data in each of these projects had a story to tell: energy flows, healthcare economics, enforcement numbers, and migration patterns. The visualization is what made it possible to hear it. We will be back with more great examples next time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/category\/data-visualization-weekly\/\">DataViz Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data has stories to tell. 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