For now, we’re using the hundreds of datasets compiled by @ourworldindata.org They source data from the World Bank, FAO, UN, WHO, and more, all consistently formatted, which makes it easy for us to connect to their API and use the data with just a few filters.

I’ll explain a bit more some of the functionalities and what’s happening behind the scenes here now that the game is live! If you didn’t play on a previous day, don’t panic! You can access the history to play past games and also see how many tries it took you to succeed on previous days.

day two!!! 🔌🔋🚗 📈 Chartle for 13 Sep 2025 Guessed in 2 tries 🟥✅⬜️⬜️⬜️ Play at chartle.cc

addictive qualities guaranteed 📈

📈 Can you guess today’s chartle? Which country in the world do you think produces the most bananas? Have a try at chartle.cc

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor. 👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately. Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions. 🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V

Radar satellite imagery from Umbra shows several damaged and destroyed structures at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, following Israeli strikes this morning More maps and videos of the multiple attacks in our story here: on.ft.com/445zvPR

China is on its way to becoming the world’s first major 'electrostate', with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and an economy increasingly driven by clean technologies 📈🌏🧵 w/ @janatausch.bsky.social and Ed White on.ft.com/3EWY5Kd

New story from me, @eadehemingway.bsky.social, @chriscook.news and Paul Caruana Galizia. We found evidence of people buying Melania Coin from its online marketplace before it was launched. They made around 100 million dollars selling their holdings as the price rose. www.ft.com/content/f579...

Join @julianhoffmann.bsky.social and me at Queen Mary's this Wednesday for some talks on data viz and more. I'll talk about visualising climate data in the newsroom amongst other things (and am v excited to hear more about Julian's 3D wizardry) Register here and hope to see you there! 🗺️ 📈

New: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy. Investigation with @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me

NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear. ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

Saw a really interesting presentation today from @parkie-doo.sh on cartokit, an interactive mapping framework that has both code and no-code interfaces. If you’re into digital cartography, you can try it here. alpha.cartokit.dev

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels 2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest on.ft.com/3PwbnPC

This new record beats last year's previous record, and makes the past 10 years the hottest on record. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fun one for NYE - I looked at club listings going back a decade in 15 cities to show that the trend for dance events to end earlier is global - with UK cities seeing some of the biggest shifts 📉🪩 Who killed the rave? (Gift link) on.ft.com/3PhQuY7

NEW: How China is setting up shop in Mexico Our visual story explores the increasingly close trade relationship that is causing concern in Washington ig.ft.com/china-mexico...

The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day by 2030, new research shows "The fact that the Arctic sea ice cover has changed so significantly that [its loss in] 2030 is even a remote possibility shows how much change there has already been in the Arctic environment” on.ft.com/3DgyKJK

You added 46 new plugins to QGIS, 39 of which you’ve only used that one time

NEW: AI is powering a robotics revolution, transforming the way machines learn and interact with the world. 🤖 Are the robots finally coming? 🤖 ig.ft.com/ai-robots/

I couldn't see an overall starter pack for FT journalists active on Bluesky. So given the recent influx of new people on here, I thought it'd be useful to make one. Do shout out all the people I've inevitably missed and I'll update go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD

A dramatic chart from our explainer on how Trump won www.ft.com/content/392e...

A starter pack for the FT's visual and data team, just in time for the US election @data.ft.com go.bsky.app/TdNzsF3

#30DayMapChallenge Day 5: A Journey Only 5 days away from the start of the 2024-25 Vendée Globe sailing race, I mapped the tracks of the 33 competitors from the last edition in 2020-21.

NEW: Sudan's brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country's health facilities. By Andres Schipani, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Chris Campbell, Sam Joiner @peter.andringa.me ig.ft.com/sudan-hospit...