Earlier this week we published another quick special project from our stellar team at @economist.com. Amazing work from @fteoldi.bsky.social, @sambeal.bsky.social, @josephc.net and many other editors, researchers and designers. www.economist.com/interactive/...

What makes Hurricane Melissa so different to other storms? A terrific piece with stellar graphics pulled together by our special-projects team with help from across the paper @ainsliejstone.bsky.social @fteoldi.bsky.social @eljlees.bsky.social @josephc.net www.economist.com/interactive/...

Tonight we’re learning how to track boats and see the seas using @globalfishingwatch.org!

We have quietly launched Off the Charts, our @economist.com data newsletter, on Substack. You can subscribe to the newsletter for FREE (paid subscribers also receive access to our newsletter archive & two of our data-driven pieces each week) theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

A brand new look at our journalism @economist.com www.economist.com/comingsoon

Off the Charts, The Economist's weekly data-journalism newsletter, is now on Substack! It's free to subscribe and you'll receive a steady supply of tips, tricks and behind-the-scenes tales from our award-winning data team 🧵 theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

Today's chartle game is almost exactly like 📈

We are seeking a motivated and dynamic graduate or graphic designer to join our video team as a junior motion-graphics designer. Apply by September 1st

A great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn the basics of data journalism #ddj

A question for naval/subsea experts: at what resolution does bathymetric data become sensitive in terms of offering military value?

To track the Israel-Iran war, @economist.com, I think uniquely, monitors 208 strategic sites in Iran for abnormal thermal activity. It can be hard to know how much maps of confirmed strikes may miss. We find broad overlap, but not perfect. www.economist.com/interactive/...

My cover story this week is on a fascinating global shift: the diminishing preference for baby boys around the world - and the first inklings of a bias towards girls. I'd love for you to read it. www.economist.com/briefing/202...

💌 Our Equal Measures 2030 April newsletter is out including: ✨ Announcing our 2025 Storytelling with Gender Data Fellows ✨ Reflecting on CSW69 and Beijing+30 Give it a read here: tinyurl.com/38m52srk 💌 Subscribe to keep up to date with EM2030: tinyurl.com/5n6j3zd8 #GenderEquality #Data

Striking chart and quite a stat: "Since January 20th [Trump] has churned out 4,149 words a week...If he keeps it up, his total oeuvre as president will surpass Marcel Proust's 1.3m-word “Remembrance of Things Past” in early 2028." www.economist.com/united-state...

Roses are red Violets are blue

Britain has been quietly making significant progress in women's representation across business and politics. Data for all 29 OECD countries in our annual glass-ceiling index 👇 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I wrote about the latest Democracy index from EIU. 2024 was a great year for polling-booth manufacturers, but less so for global democracy www.economist.com/interactive/...

Zwei Tage vor der der Wahl haben Friedrich Merz und die Union eine Anfrage gestellt, die man in dieser Form sonst nur von der AfD kannte. In 551 (!) Fragen stellen sie die Gemeinnützigkeit zahlreicher NGOs in Frage, darunter auch des @netzwerkrecherche.org. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...

How are Germans planning to vote? I took a look, with five charts and a bunch of data 🇩🇪📈

Thanks (or no thanks?) to @alexselbyb.bsky.social for mentioning this 'spot the wrong colour' game in the latest @economist.com 'Off the charts' #dataviz newsletter sent by @mariesegger.bsky.social. My Saturday morning productivity? Nonexistent! 😂

My article, just out, on what German business leaders are expecting from the new government--and why they feel with they are standing with their backs to the wall www.economist.com/business/202...

A lovely walk down the visual memory lane yesterday at @visualisingdata.com’s very entertaining book launch. He highlighted a different standout chart for every year of the last two decades or so📈📊📉🗺️

Did some Hansard crunching for Catherine Nixey's entertaining piece on Parliamentary debate: www.economist.com/britain/2025... "Parliament’s benches are less a place to go to pose questions than to pose for clips on X. This House seems to believe old-fashioned debating is a waste of time."

Diese Visualisierung im SPIEGEL-Parteispenden-Tracker zeigt sehr deutlich, wie Vermögende versuchen, auf den Ausgang der Bundestagswahl Einfluss zu nehmen und die Dimension der aktuellen Großspenden an die AfD.

For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJ

This week we published a special @spiegel.de print issue ahead of the 🇩🇪 national election — including three large visualization pages from our team.

🗳️🇩🇪 We have launched our German election forecast! The hard-right AfD is 2nd in the polls and has been gaining ground on the centre-right CDU/CSU. But none of the other parties want to work with it. Which coalitions will be possible? Follow the runners & riders: www.economist.com/interactive/...

I watched Emilia Pérez so you don't have to. Contrary to every single word of this piece, I didn't technically hate it www.economist.com/culture/2025...

A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the UK to cancel out the extra emissions from the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports. That's more than 300,000 hectares... Chart for @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... #dataviz

She's here 😭😭😭

The UK government has set a lofty goal of "ending homelessness for good". But homelessness in England has increased by 26% over the past five years. My reporting from the streets of Manchester demonstrates how difficult it will be to tackle. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

What will the future of the warming stripes be? 2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year. Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then. We are likely to regret not acting sooner.

🚨 The Northern Agenda is proud to launch its new podcast series Our Kids In The North Over the next six episodes, journalists @robparsonsna.bsky.social and @anniegouk.bsky.social Gouk focus on what it’s really like to be one of the 3.3 million children growing up in Northern England today 1/4

I have updated my Europe econ/politics list a bit, in case of interest. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lots of talk in turn-of-year media predictions about alternative sources of organic traffic. Excitingly @economist.com has reached 1m followers on WhatsApp Channels, one of the new platforms we’re trying. Sign up for free to receive three suggested stories per day: www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

No! NO!! www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

For our special holiday double issue(!) I wrote about what the energy transition means for oil towns—and the trade offs that no one likes to talk about on the way to a greener future. There was no better place to look than Kern County, California www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

Team R/tidyverse, obviously!

If you read only one newsletter about the best coding language for data journalism, choose wisely

The economy has overtaken climate change and refugees as German voters’ top concern. Parties on the right seem to be benefitting in the polls. My short look at the current situation in Germany: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

This ridgeline plot and the unconventional use of shading from white to blue to indicate sea ice loss is great. It also reinforces the impression of a dense ice pack breaking up. Chart by @janatausch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/63fb... #dataviz

A little dive into how Taylor Swift could have made even more money from the Eras tour. (Still dying by a thousand cuts that Vienna is missing from this chart…) www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Worthy of my first post here is this thoughtfully designed explainer on the disastrous situation in Sudan by @graphics.reuters.com www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...

The UN plastic treaty talks have failed. But the world needs to clean up its act. It produces around 500m tonnes of plastic a year causing more emissions than aviation. 1/3 is used for packaging. I talked to startups making sustainable versions for @economist.com www.economist.com/business/202...

Hey Bluesky! You can follow the @economist.com data team here if you want to see more of our analysis and charts in your feed go.bsky.app/BJSsLHw

Which company should you work for if you want to get ahead? To find out The Economist has created a new index with the Burning Glass Institute, a think-tank. Explore how 151 of Britain's biggest and most well-known firms are rated, here: www.economist.com/opportunity-...

Looking for a job in Britain? Check out our ranking of companies by pay, promotion and hiring practices #dataviz www.economist.com/interactive/...

What an incredible piece from Patrick Fealey, an award-winning journalist and writer, who became homeless last year. I often think about how wide the gaps are in Britain's social security net compared with Germany's. But America is truly in a different league. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

My underwhelmed & unenthused wrap of #COP29: www.economist.com/internationa...

We have a shiny new home for video at The Economist 📽️ You can watch my latest investigation into Russian sabotage inside NATO, alongside our videos on geopolitics, business & economics, US politics and - of course - @lanegreene.bsky.social on languages www.economist.com/video