Very late to this but here we go! A collection of our visual and graphics storytelling from 2025. Enjoy 💞
What 2025 looked like - in graphics
Our most striking visual explainers and data stories of the year, all in one place.
reuters.com
By comparing Gaza’s damaged structures with Manhattan’s building inventory (using New York Department of Buildings data), @reuters.com provided readers with a powerful sense of scale and context. @sudevk.bsky.social
Going inside the rubble and ruin of Gaza
To mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Gaza, Reuters set out to produce a comprehensive report examining the full extent of the damage and the staggering volume of rubble.
inma.org
A thread of some design/code highlights for me from our 'How Bangalore Uses the Metro' 📊 project. 1. The header sign is fully HTML/CSS. 'Go Down Take Up For Toilet' is real signage at one of our biggest stations (pic below) :P
Aman Bhargava@aman.bh · 11mo agoFiled a Right to Information request with Bangalore's metro authority asking how many people traveled on the metro and got a file with 1.2M rows of data! We break our findings down in this story on how Bangalore uses the metro. w/ @vonter.bsky.social #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2025/how-ban...
Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:
Today, @vonter.bsky.social and I launched cbfc.watch, an archive of over 100k censorship records for ~18k movies released in India since 2017. For the first time, you can search for any movie and see how they were modified before release. The site is fun to explore, but here's some #dataviz in it!
Stranded at sea: A decade after EU’s migrant crisis, hundreds still dying in Mediterranean. My last project in @reuters.com with @joanfaus.bsky.social and @sudevk.bsky.social www.reuters.com/graphics/MIG...
My latest with @deabankova.bsky.social , @rebeccapazos.bsky.social and Mayank Munjal explores the unprecedented scale of the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India, which drew a staggering 663 million visits to the ghats for ritual bathing over a 45-day period. www.reuters.com/graphics/IND...
Buildings Wrapped in Solid Gasoline In a strong example of using data & graphics to explain a highly technical topic, @graphics.reuters.com showed how flammable panels fueled a fire that killed 10 people in a high-rise residential building in Valencia, Spain. https://twp.ai/4ink8O
New project! Made a tool lets you explore, subset and summarize over 10M rows of data from the Time Use Survey of India in your browser. How people in different states, professions and groups spend their time? And then export your findings for #dataviz too! diagramchasing.fun/2025/time-us...
How South Korea's largest and deadliest wildfire spread www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU... by @sudevk.bsky.social Han Huang and @adolfux.bsky.social
How South Korea's largest and deadliest wildfire spread
The wildfires in March devastated an area larger than the Los Angeles fire and two-thirds the size of Singapore to become its largest in the country’s history, killing scores of people.
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Glad to see some of the projects I worked on at @graphics.reuters.com made it to the #IIBAwards 2024 Longlist!
Thrilled to finally share one of the most challenging projects I've ever worked on! With Simon Scarr, @rebeccapazos.bsky.social & Nidal al-Mughrabi, @graphics.reuters.com visualised the tragic loss of life in the war between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. #dataviz #threejs #svelte
Birds 🦅 collide with aircraft 🛩️ about 150 times a day. But serious incidents such as the Jeju Air crash in South Korea last month are rare yet often fatal, except for a few lucky near-misses. A look at how bird strikes are a challenge for aviation. www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...
How over 150 bird strikes a day challenge aviation
Birds striking an aircraft is common in aviation, serious incidents are rare yet often fatal.
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I made charts for this story by @khadijaalam.bsky.social published on @restofworld.org! A news graphic after a long time for me. #dataviz restofworld.org/2025/us-chin...
Maps and diagrams break down the final moments of the Jeju Air flight that crash-landed 🛬 in South Korea 🇰🇷, ending up as the country’s deadliest air crash. reuters.com/graphics/SOU...
The final moments before the Jeju Air crash in South Korea
Maps and diagrams break down the final minutes of Jeju Air flight 2216 that ended in the deadliest air crash in South Korea.
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End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?
One of the most challenging projects I've worked on since joining Reuters. Despite warnings from the world’s hunger watchdog of an impending catastrophe in Sudan, famine struck anyway. www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...
