From food insecurity and water worries to police shootings, a new airport and LDS membership — these stats tell a story. Here are The Tribune's top data graphics from 2022.
As a data columnist, I’m tasked with communicating facts, figures and statistics clearly and effectively. And a good data graphic goes a long way in helping to do that. It tells the main point at a glance and reveals more upon inspection. A good data graphic is striking — but sound.
. The online data visualization studio Flourish is our most frequent online tool, while Christopher usually makes our more creative graphics in Adobe Illustrator. We frequently use different graphics for online versus print in an effort to play to each medium’s strengths.So let’s get to it. In no particular order, here’s our top 10:The statistics about food insecurity in Utah are shocking, especially given that we live in the nation’s highest-rated economy, as named by.
“What has been a slow-motion train wreck for 20 years is accelerating,” John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said. “And the moment of reckoning is near.”There’s perhaps no more controversial topic among Utahns recently than the new Salt Lake City International Airport. Some find
This graphic, with data from the airport, shows the walking times to various gates — along with how much the moving walkways impact the “commute.” The moving walkways don’t speed things up much. Even walking on those moving walkwaysObviously, most Utahns knew that water-hungry alfalfa was grown in our state. But that it dominates the cropland to this extent was surprising — to me, at least.