Hiii. First of all, thank you for your kind words!

The microsite was built with Shorthand (shorthand.com), and the illustrations and some of the graphics were made in Illustrator (with a bit of help from R)

Credits:
• Words: Fadah Jassem (@fadahjassem.bsky.social)
• Graphics and Data: Fadah Jassem and Isaac Arroyo (myself)
• Illustrations Roy Cooper
• Photo editor: Reena Ratan and Ravindranath Kantharaju
• Design: Nick Donaldson
• Sub editor: Chris Tait

Here's a sample of the graphics you can find in this project, and the link to it: www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

The National’s Data team cross-referenced public databases of the recorded deaths of the journalists covering the war. And last week, our latest visual project was published. In there, we show the circumstances and patterns of killings.

Almost two years ago, the war in Gaza started, and at least 200 journalists have been killed.

Who were they? Under what circumstances did they die? Were they deliberately targeted by Israel in an attempt to suppress the truth about what is going on in Gaza?

(Small thread with #dataviz)

This week's Dispatch brings a range of topics — U.S. politics, gender issues, the economy, conflict, and climate — as well as a chart-themed game at the end. 📊 🕹️

www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

pre-coding sketches

Climate change affects all of us, some more than others.

Here’s a sample of the maps and charts I made for “How the climate crisis is creating millions of refugees in the Middle East” by Rachel Kelly.

www.thenationalnews.com/climate/2025...

#datavisualization #dataviz #datajournalism #maps

Also, here are the draft charts I usually do in R before formatting the data for Flourish.

The National published a special project about the changes in the United Arab Emirates’ population. Juman (the editor) invited me to make the charts.

Here’s the project and some of the charts:

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...

#dataviz #datavisualization

Soy mexicano, así que si alguien por aquí speakea español, siéntese con la libertad de chismear y nerdear conmigo.

Hi, I'm Isaac Arroyo, a data(vis) journalist at The National (Abu Dhabi).

I created this profile because I feel that the #dataviz community has slowly moved here, and I miss them.

Here are some charts and maps I’ve made as part of my job or just for fun. Hoping to see new and familiar usernames.