Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the Olympic sports. (Trampoline is tucked into the Gymnastics category in case you’re looking.) For each sport, there’s a schedule, a leading illustration, and a set of visuals that show you important moves or terminology. It’s very good, especially for the sports you might not...

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded aspects of covering sports that make data more meaningful. When approaching data visualisation for the Olympics, focus on the humanity of the games by integrating socio-economic, political, and historical stories alongside sports performance. Engage readers by placing...

A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather, which is a challenge when it’s really hot and you have to run as fast as you can for a couple of hours. Bloomberg illustrates the challenges and how athletes might cope: The harder the human body works, the hotter it gets. Roughly 80% of the energy generated by performing muscular exercises...

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We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington Post, Harry Stevens illustrates how a company aims to convert geothermal heat to usable electricity with zero emissions. Tags: fracking, power, Washington Post

The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to reconstruct the scene of the rally. They show four lines of sight: from the location of the gunman and three countersniper teams. You get a sense of distance and obstructions, which partially explain how the gunman could’ve been missed in surveillance. Tags: New York Times, perspective,...