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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 24d

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.

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems

ourworldindata.org

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 24d

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.

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · 26d

day two!!! 🔌🔋🚗

📈 Chartle for 13 Sep 2025

Guessed in 2 tries
🟥✅⬜️⬜️⬜️

Play at chartle.cc

Chartle - A daily chart game

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

chartle.cc

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · 27d

addictive qualities guaranteed 📈

Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 27d

Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Chartle - A daily chart game

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

chartle.cc

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chartle @chartle.cc · 27d

📈 Can you guess today’s chartle?

Which country in the world do you think produces the most bananas?

Have a try at chartle.cc

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Jul 18

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...

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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Lucy Rodgers @upyorkshire.ft.com · Jul 16

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...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

ig.ft.com

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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · Jul 16

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions

Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

ig.ft.com

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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · Jul 1

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

Is Europe prepared for war?

With US support for transatlantic security faltering, Nato nations are fortifying the eastern frontier with Russia

on.ft.com

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Jun 13

w @peter.andringa.me Dan Clark @samjoiner.bsky.social @sdbernard.bsky.social

Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

Satellite images of Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, from May 20 and June 13 2025. The recent images shows several damaged and destroyed structures.

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · May 12

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

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution

[FREE TO READ] Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

on.ft.com

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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · May 6

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...

Traders made $100mn from buying Melania Trump memecoin before launch

Small group of digital wallets bought up coins in the minutes before it was announced, FT analysis shows

www.ft.com

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Apr 28

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! 🗺️ 📈

Open Data Vis: Visual Insights & Networking

Data Visualisation evening and networking event for experts and enthusiasts. Speakers from the FT and QMUL/UCL.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy

[FREE TO READ] FT documentary investigates rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs

on.ft.com

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · Feb 12

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...

An animation of a digital bitcoin rolling into view on an orange rectangular background

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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · Feb 6

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

cartokit — Style Maps. Get Programs.

cartokit is a new direct manipulation programming environment for interactive cartography on the web.

alpha.cartokit.dev

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thanks both!

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · Jan 23

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-...

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Jan 10

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

Boxplot chart showing distribution of average daily surface air temperatures compared with pre-industrial average, by year, degrees Celsius. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jan 10

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...

Maps of air temperature anomaly foe each year since 1970 to 2024. Little maps are getting from blue to red with the last 10 years all very red as it is getting warmer than normal.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · Dec 31

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

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · Dec 16

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...

How China is setting up shop in Mexico

An increasingly close trade relationship is causing concern in Washington

ig.ft.com

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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · Dec 7

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

Ridgeline plot showing daily sea ice extent compared with 1981-2010 average, million sq km, by year. 1979-2024. More days have less Arctic sea ice in recent years.

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