Fair Warning: Happy New Year!

The best of the best of 2022...

Hello! Welcome to a new year. Hopefully better than the last, but if your years are anything like mine they just get different, not necessarily better. Nevertheless, in 2022 I managed to succeed in my “resolution” to do one new thing a month.

Thanks to this completely arbitrary goal, I discovered I am good at throwing axes. I had my first Thanksgiving meal. I got my first tattoo. I went hunting for ghosts with my best friend and scared myself to death in the process. And I tried some weird wellness things like hot yoga and acupuncture. It’s nice to look back and feel like I did actually achieve some things, and I’m gonna take that “do new things” energy with me into 2023.

Most places with a graphics team have published a round-up of their work in 2022 so I’m just going to throw them here if you’ve not seen:
The Wall Street Journal’s 2022 Year In Graphics
The Washington Post’s Year in Graphics
Bloomberg’s 2022 Year in Graphics
The New York Times’ Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
Five Thirty Eight’s 33 Cool Charts We Made in 2022

If yours is not on this list then a) I’m sorry b) please do send it over.

And here are the 10 most popular links I included in Fair Warning in 2022:
The Real Dividing Line On Abortion (Five Thirty Eight)
Why So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the Top (The New York Times)
I Should Be Able To Mute America (Gawker)
When Shipping Containers Sink In the Drink (The New Yorker)
Data Dive: How We Name Babies (Axios)
Where Our Earth Becomes Uninhabitable (Berliner Morgenpost)
Paint With Music (Google Arts & Culture)
The Long Awaited Date (The Washington Post)
Check your postcode: Is Your Area Vulnerable to Extreme Heat? (BBC News)
What’s Your Rate of Inflation? (The New York Times)

Hope you have a great start to the new year!
Soph