Irene De la Torre Arenas
@inari-ta.bsky.social
Dataviz designer & journalist at the Financial Times
Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com
Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com
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With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊
— What's your claim to fame? ✨ —
How might we know you already?
What have you done that we might have seen or read before?
What would help us remember how we came across you?
Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡
— What's your claim to fame? ✨ —
How might we know you already?
What have you done that we might have seen or read before?
What would help us remember how we came across you?
Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡
Ohhh! 👉 bsky.app/profile/chez...
👋 I am a designer in the Visual Storytelling team at the Financial Times. I love making data visualizations, especially with big data and animations on it (the 🍒 on the 🍰 is if it's a map!).
More stuff here irenedelatorrearenas.wordpress.com (not updated though)
👋 I am a designer in the Visual Storytelling team at the Financial Times. I love making data visualizations, especially with big data and animations on it (the 🍒 on the 🍰 is if it's a map!).
More stuff here irenedelatorrearenas.wordpress.com (not updated though)
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New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
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Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews are exploited and abused — and certification schemes fail to prevent it. on.ft.com/3KakoOZ
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews are exploited and abused — and certification schemes fail to prevent it. on.ft.com/3KakoOZ
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NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea.
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
ig.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea.
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay.
Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
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Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
Inside the confusing world of women’s clothing sizes
Why does shopping for clothes feel like a guessing game? We looked at the numbers to find out.
www.straitstimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
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New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
ig.ft.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.
Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social
🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world on.ft.com/42Pe3i8 #FTEdit
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
on.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."
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How will the flower bloom in 2100?
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
How will the flower bloom in 2100?
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
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And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, @samjoiner.bsky.social et al.
ig.ft.com/ai-robots/
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
ig.ft.com/ai-robots/
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
How AI is powering a robotics revolution
Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible
ig.ft.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, @samjoiner.bsky.social et al.
ig.ft.com/ai-robots/
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
ig.ft.com/ai-robots/
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety
👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety
👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety
👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety
👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
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ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
ig.ft.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
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We've built a football game and it's free to play!
Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
Can you run a Premier League football club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory
ft.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We've built a football game and it's free to play!
Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.
👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
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Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España www.rtve.es/n/16694606
Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España
Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España
www.rtve.es
August 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España www.rtve.es/n/16694606
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The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown on.ft.com/3HtJpDp
The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown
Pedro Sánchez calls his country a ‘global benchmark’ in the transition to greener energy, but prices — and profits — have plunged
on.ft.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown on.ft.com/3HtJpDp
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Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl
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My friend Yotam is recruiting participants with low vision for a paid online user study on making data visualizations like graphs and charts more accessible. More details at sechaykyotam.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... #PhdSky #a11y #DataViz
Visualization Accessibility Study Recruitment
Visualization Accessibility Study Recruitment
sechaykyotam.questionpro.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My friend Yotam is recruiting participants with low vision for a paid online user study on making data visualizations like graphs and charts more accessible. More details at sechaykyotam.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... #PhdSky #a11y #DataViz
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I didn’t realize there’s a Wikipedia page for the climate spiral. 📊
- Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018)
- Also from @edhawkins.org
- The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn
- Featured in opening of 2016 olympics
- Theres a paper to explain its success
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...
- Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018)
- Also from @edhawkins.org
- The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn
- Featured in opening of 2016 olympics
- Theres a paper to explain its success
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...
Climate spiral - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I didn’t realize there’s a Wikipedia page for the climate spiral. 📊
- Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018)
- Also from @edhawkins.org
- The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn
- Featured in opening of 2016 olympics
- Theres a paper to explain its success
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...
- Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018)
- Also from @edhawkins.org
- The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn
- Featured in opening of 2016 olympics
- Theres a paper to explain its success
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...
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Donald Trump’s Super Pac has amassed almost $200mn thanks to a big injection of cash from the crypto industry, giving the president an enormous war chest ahead of the 2026 congressional elections. on.ft.com/4m08Qf1
August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Donald Trump’s Super Pac has amassed almost $200mn thanks to a big injection of cash from the crypto industry, giving the president an enormous war chest ahead of the 2026 congressional elections. on.ft.com/4m08Qf1
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New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
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On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/
How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement
ig.ft.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/
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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
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.
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Maravilla. En 2013, ¡la virgen!, hablábamos en este artículo de la historia del despacho de Montoro. No es solo que le cambiaran el nombre para disimular cuando se fue a Moncloa, es que se quedó su hermano a cargo: civio.es/poder/2013/1...
July 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Maravilla. En 2013, ¡la virgen!, hablábamos en este artículo de la historia del despacho de Montoro. No es solo que le cambiaran el nombre para disimular cuando se fue a Moncloa, es que se quedó su hermano a cargo: civio.es/poder/2013/1...
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‼️ No deberíamos celebrar la llegada de datos de 2017, pero con los incendios forestales es otra historia.
La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca.
En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.
La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca.
En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.
📊 ¿Estamos celebrando datos de 2017 en pleno 2025? Pues… sí. Y ese es parte del problema.
La recogida oficial de datos sobre incendios forestales no avanza, se estanca.
• 2018: faltan los datos de La Rioja.
• 2019: sin Baleares ni Jaén.
• 2020 en adelante: el desplome.
• 2023: solo Murcia y Soria.
La recogida oficial de datos sobre incendios forestales no avanza, se estanca.
• 2018: faltan los datos de La Rioja.
• 2019: sin Baleares ni Jaén.
• 2020 en adelante: el desplome.
• 2023: solo Murcia y Soria.
July 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
‼️ No deberíamos celebrar la llegada de datos de 2017, pero con los incendios forestales es otra historia.
La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca.
En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.
La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca.
En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.
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‼️ Actualizamos el mapa de España en llamas
🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa
🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023
civio.es/medio-ambien...
🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa
🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023
civio.es/medio-ambien...
July 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
‼️ Actualizamos el mapa de España en llamas
🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa
🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023
civio.es/medio-ambien...
🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa
🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023
civio.es/medio-ambien...
NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.
👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.
👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
July 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.
👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.
👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...
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The 'significant shift' was led by a drop in Syrians seeking protection in the bloc after the fall of the Assad regime, according to an unpublished report seen by the FT. https://on.ft.com/4f35hlG
July 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The 'significant shift' was led by a drop in Syrians seeking protection in the bloc after the fall of the Assad regime, according to an unpublished report seen by the FT. https://on.ft.com/4f35hlG