![I went through 10+ years of The New York Times front pages to count how many times Ukraine is mentioned [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/k6560df1btid1-1855x1024.jpeg)
I got curious how often does news about Ukraine make it to the front page, and so I cycled through the digital archive of NYT front pages to count how many issues mention Ukraine.
I must admit that a line chart would be a much more effective way to visualize this data. But it’s not as fun or beautiful.
Tools: Siri Shortcuts for data collection, RStudio for data transformation and visualization, Affinity Designer for annotations
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Tools: Siri Shortcuts for data collection, RStudio for data transformation and visualization, Affinity Designer for annotations
Feedback, I would flip your orientation vertically with oldest at the top and 2024 at the bottom to match a normal reading pattern, where you walk the months left to right then go down a row for the next year
I expected july 2014 to be much darker, because of the MH17 mass murder
What has the Trump impeachment to do with Ukraine that it caused that big of a spike?
Why is it upside down and scale inverted?
I was confused at first. Normally hotter color is higher value, and read from top to bottom.