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Gaku Ito
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Newsroom Designer at NIKKEI @nikkei.com
NIKKEI Asia / Data Visualization, Infographics, Cartography, Visual Journalism
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
We did a partial climb of Ben Nevis today and were rewarded with stunning views of the valley below. Once again the light was incredible.
September 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: Saudi is holding internal discussions about having China or South Korea hold the 2029 Asian Winter Games as it struggles to deliver its desert defying ski resort in Neom. on.ft.com/45qlxtK
Delays to Saudi Arabia’s snow mountain put 2029 Asian Winter Games at risk
[FREE TO READ] Kingdom eyes alternative countries to host event after falling behind on construction of desert ski resort
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August 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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samjoiner.bsky.social
FREE TO PLAY: ⚽ Can you run a Premier League football club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.

👉 ft.com/football-game
August 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
NEW: Ski resort in the Saudi mountains? This animation shows how the huge Trojena project which is set to host the Asian winter games in 2029 is falling behind schedule

Great reporting from @alisonkilling.bsky.social Andrew England Joe Leahy and Ahmed Al Omran
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#dataviz
August 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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samjoiner.bsky.social
New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army.

Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.

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The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army
Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government
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July 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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nassosstylianou.bsky.social
New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦

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July 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: Inside US’s booming immigration detention industry where increasing levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives and detainees say. ⁦
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Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment
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July 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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samjoiner.bsky.social
New: Inside Gaza’s 'death traps'. A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. First-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video shed light on the dangerous journey from which many never return.

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July 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
NEW: Will Iran start a new tanker war? Data from Global Maritime Traffic highlights how much of a chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz is for tankers

Read Chloe Cornish and JP Rathbone's latest @financialtimes.com Military Briefing
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#dataviz
Map of The Gulf and Strait of Hormuz showing density of tanker traffic (hours per square km, June 2024)
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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peter.andringa.me
GPS has become critical infrastructure with both military and civil applications. What happens when it's a casualty of war?

@claradoodle.bsky.social, Aditi Bhandari and I took a visual look at the rising anxieties for the shipping industry in the Straight of Hormuz:
Visual analysis: GPS interference raises risk of accidents in Strait of Hormuz
Collision between two oil tankers raises anxieties in the region amid conflict between Israel and Iran
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June 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
Another excellent animation by @nikkei.com's @gakuito.bsky.social, this time showing Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment facility which is buried 500m under a mountain.

Read John Paul Rathbone and Charles Clover's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/46c6...
#dataviz
June 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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samjoiner.bsky.social
Multiple Israeli airstrikes have targeted Tehran’s top military commanders, nuclear sites and bases across the country.

Verified footage, photos and official statements from Israel and Iran confirm some of the key locations that have been hit.

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Israel’s strikes on Iran in videos and maps
[FREE TO READ] Multiple air strikes targeted Tehran’s top military commanders, nuclear sites and bases across the country
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June 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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financialtimes.com
Vast organised crime networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico's president. Here's how https://on.ft.com/4e1A9Cv
June 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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datawrapper.de
🔥 Our forests are burning, our oceans are dying, but at least solar energy is still on the rise! Dive into each topic and many more with the latest Data Vis Dispatch.

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An animated map of North America tracking wildfire smoke density, origins and displacement by wind. Published by the Financial Times. A world map showing visa overstay rates for students and other exchange guests in the United States. Colored circles represent the percentages, revealing a trend of higher rates for many African and Asian countries. Published by Deena Zaidi. A line chart comparing different projected scenarios for wind and solar energy capacities in the UK, showing how they are likely to exceed the current demand. Published by CarbonBrief. A map of the world’s oceans with overlays of areas experiencing ocean surface heat waves in May 2025. Much of the map is affected, with a trend line showing peaks and a general rise in recent years. Published by The New York Times.
June 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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nassosstylianou.bsky.social
NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...
January 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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theboysmithy.ft.com
GIS nerds with a penchant for UK maps might appreciate Sir George Airy photobombing this Ian Bott illustration of the Airy Transit Circle. Check out Ian's amazing illustrated guide to London's Royal Observatory at Greenwich just in time for the clocks going forward (gift link: on.ft.com/4iVA2u1)
An illustration of the Airy Transit Circle of 1851, a device to fix the position of stars and other celestial bodies by determining two coordinates. Inventor Sir George Airy is shown to scale next to the machine which is considerably bigger than him
March 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
Want to know how I made the Arctic sea ice animation? You can now the read the ‘How we made it’ section of our Climate Graphic: Explained newsletter on FT.com

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#dataviz
April 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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halukamb.bsky.social
Brilliant, yet painful job by the @data.ft.com team to put this (in)humanitarian crisis into perspective. What Gazans had as land per person before the war. And what Gazans might end up with having. #gaza #dataviz
June 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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data.ft.com
Patient data could power the NHS. Much of it is still stuck on paper 📊

https://www.ft.com/content/63a99def-87ae-4c66-bf21-b80029677612
Patient data could power the NHS. Much of it is still stuck on paper
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
www.ft.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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sdbernard.bsky.social
Excellent work by our talented colleague @gakuito.bsky.social‬ from @nikkei.com on secondment with our team.

The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe.

Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires'
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#dataviz
June 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM