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Featuring stories on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, protests about the Israel-Gaza conflict, Chinas global maritime footprint, and a memoriam for Philip Meyer, a pioneer of data-driven journalism.

This edition of our Data Journalism Top 10 — covering stories published between October 9 and October 22 — includes The New York Times’ graphic analysis of the waiting periods before Israeli civilians received any IDF response following Hamas attacks on October 7. Also featured this week: analyzing the first-round results of Argentina’s presidential election, […]

Renewed attention to the Native American boarding school system — hundreds that sprang up in the 19th century as part of assimilation policies — has yielded new data and archival evidence about the network and the abuse of children, which underpinned a comprehensive article on the issue by The New York Times. This edition of […]

This week in data journalism looks at how COVID-19 changed habits in the US, the race for the Arctic, and King Charles III's coronation.

This week in data journalism looks at the energy impacts of bitcoin mining, anti-LGBTQ laws across Africa, and estimates of Russian war dead.