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The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning song coming from Sweden. Hundreds of millions of people watch the contest worldwide, but I’m pretty sure most Americans’ impressions come from the satirical Will Ferrell movie, so this visual guide by Reuters should be helpful.
Tags: Eurovision, music, Reuters
Posted by in Eurovision, Infographics, Music, Reuters
Reuters dug in to the science of sleep and how paying attention to our rhythms affect our health. On dreams:
Sleep itself has cycles, in which the brain and body move through phases, marked by varying brain activity. In the deepest phases of sleep, the brain waves are slowest. The lighter phases have more rapid bursts of activity.
Our most intense dreams usually happen during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, when brain activity, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure all increase, the eyes move rapidly, and muscles are limp. Scientists believe dreams in REM and non-REM sleep have different content – the more vivid or bizarre dreams usually happen during REM stages.
See also: our actual sleep schedules.
Posted by in Infographics, Reuters, sleep
It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most of the state has been in severe drought for the past few years. However, the current aging systems can only capture so much of the rainwater, which means we’re still in a drought. For Reuters, Clare Trainor and Minami Funakoshi use a combo heatmap and area plot to show drought severity over the years.
Tags: California, drought, Reuters
Posted by in California, drought, Reuters, Statistical Visualization
Marking the third anniversary of the first Covid deaths in the United States, Ally J. Levine, for Reuters, used cyanotype to talk about the grief of those who lost a loved one. Levine explained the process behind the piece here.
Tags: coronavirus, Reuters
Posted by in coronavirus, Data Art, Reuters
In celebration of the most romantic day of the year that is sometimes comedic, Sam Hart, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, for Reuters, tours the genres within the genres of romantic comedy. You had me at analysis.
Tags: movies, Reuters, romantic comedy
Posted by in Infographics, movies, Reuters, romantic comedy
After a big earthquake, such as the 7.8 that hit Turkey and Syria, it is important that search and rescue be carried through in an organized way when everything around is chaos. For Reuters, Adolfo Arranz, Simon Scarr, and Jitesh Chowdhury illustrate the guidelines recommended by the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group.
Tags: earthquake, illustration, Reuters
Posted by in earthquake, illustration, Infographics, Reuters
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies tracks large objects, such as asteroids, that have passed Earth or are headed towards it. Reuters visualized the nearest objects in the database.
The graphic starts at Earth’s surface, and you get farther away as you scroll down. Speed is plotted on the horizontal, symbols are scaled by the object’s minimum diameter, and yellow indicates objects on the way.
Illustrations after the initial graphic do a good job of providing scale for if any of these objects hit us.
In a story about how scientists are using drones to fight plant extinction, Reuters Graphics uses a blend of video, illustration, and statistical graphics. I like the part in the middle where the mixed media seamlessly comes together.
Tags: conservation, drone, plants, Reuters
Posted by in conservation, drone, Infographics, plants, Reuters
Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Reuters shows a developing pattern across species:
Losing hundreds of species over 500 or so years may not seem significant when there are millions more still living on the planet. But in fact, the speed at which species are now vanishing is unprecedented in the last 10 million years.
“We are losing species now faster than they can evolve,” O’Brien said.
Tags: animals, extinction, Reuters
Posted by in animals, extinction, Reuters, Statistical Visualization
Sarah Slobin and Joanna Plucinska, for Reuters, report on the challenges of counting and tracking thousands of orphans in Ukraine who were evacuated and relocated when Russia invaded:
When Russia invaded on Feb. 24, there were more than 105,000 children in Ukraine’s network of more than 700 institutions – known as orphanages or ‘internats’ – either full-time or part-time. That’s just over 1% of the child population – the highest rate of institutionalization in Europe, according to data from the European Union and UNICEF.
Around half the children in Ukraine’s orphanages were disabled, according to UNICEF. But Ukraine’s state record-keeping system, known as UIAS “Children,” was not capable of tracking or tracing children sent home from institutions, according to the Support to Ukraine’s Reforms for Governance project (SURGe), a Canadian government-funded agency contracted by the NSS to help support it.
Tags: missing data, orphanages, Reuters, Ukraine, war
Posted by in missing data, orphanages, Reuters, Statistical Visualization, ukraine, War