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Wednesday, 24 February, 2021

Wednesday, 3 February, 2021

This week in Covid vaccines: A collection of the FT’s essential reading

Vaccine milestone as global Covid jabs pass number of confirmed cases

FT tracker shows rapid growth in doses administered around world — but warnings come of long road ahead

Monday, 25 January, 2021

Pandemic crisis: Global economic impact tracker

Alternative indicators give an early picture of how the global economy is faring in the face of headwinds from new restrictions as case counts climb

Tuesday, 29 December, 2020

The Big Read

2020: charts from a year like no other

Data and graphics were the bedrock for a lot of coronavirus reporting, from transmission rates to the economic fallout

Wednesday, 16 December, 2020

Special ReportThe World Ahead

Tomorrow’s world in charts: Gen Z, climate change, China, Brexit and global trade

Data visualisation of the political, economic and business challenges of the next five years

Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

FT SeriesFuture of the City

How London grew into a financial powerhouse

Charting the growth of London’s financial centre and what the future holds after Brexit

Sunday, 18 October, 2020

FT SeriesCoronavirus: Could the world have been spared?

Covid-19: The global crisis — in data

Charts and maps show insights — and paradoxes — of a pandemic that has claimed more than a million lives

Tuesday, 22 September, 2020

UK politics & policy

Coronavirus response tests Britons’ confidence in the country

Only quarter of people have faith in UK’s resilience as survey highlights concerns over failure to agree EU trade deal

Thursday, 23 July, 2020

FT Magazine

Race and America: why data matters

More than a century after WEB Du Bois’s groundbreaking work, data activism is still crucial for social change

Promoted Content

Tuesday, 7 July, 2020

UK immigration

EU settled status applicants exceed official tally

Campaigners fear European nationals eligible to stay in Britain after Brexit could slip through net

Saturday, 27 June, 2020

NCAA

Lucrative US college sports industry faces uncertain future

Billions of dollars in revenue is at risk as schools struggle to resume play during pandemic

Friday, 19 June, 2020

News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus economic tracker: latest global fallout

Pandemic is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies across the world

Friday, 8 May, 2020

News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic24 min

Coronavirus coxcombs to waffles

What Florence Nightingale can teach us about the best ways to map the spread of disease

Saturday, 2 May, 2020

Coronavirus: free to read

Loosening lockdowns: tracking governments’ changing coronavirus responses | Free to read

From business closures to movement restrictions, some countries’ policies show first signs of easing

Tuesday, 24 March, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic

London is most vulnerable to coronavirus outbreak in the UK

Richest city has seen three times as many cases as any other region

Monday, 9 March, 2020

News in-depthUS presidential election

Biden’s surge poses threat to Sanders’ primary hopes

Former vice-president appears to be consolidating moderates, according to FT analysis

Wednesday, 5 February, 2020

ExplainerRail15 min

Mapping how railroads built America

A new look at old maps reveals how cities grew and spread over the past 200 years

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Brexit countdown

The Brexit years in charts

How Britain’s political crisis hit the country long before its formal EU departure

Tuesday, 14 January, 2020

Ageing Populations

In charts: Europe’s demographic time-bomb

While global population is ageing, continent presents extreme example

Monday, 13 January, 2020

ExplainerUS presidential election20 min

How map makers will win the 2020 US election

The FT's Alan Smith investigates gerrymandering, using tiddlywinks and a salamander

Sunday, 29 December, 2019

News in-depthThe Big Read

Ten charts that tell the story of 2019

The FT’s pick of the year’s best visual journalism, from extreme weather patterns to signs of a growing surveillance society

Friday, 13 December, 2019

UK general election

UK general election results at a glance

View how the parties performed, leaving the Tories with a ‘stonking mandate’

Wednesday, 4 December, 2019

ExplainerUK Inequality26 min

Elections, inequality, the haves and the Havants

Maptastic: the FT’s Alan Smith looks at the most unequal parts of the UK

Friday, 29 November, 2019

News in-depthUK general election

England in 2019: Split by wealth but united by Brexit

Voters prioritise resolving the EU crisis over the deep inequality revealed in new research

Wednesday, 13 November, 2019

Special ReportDiversity in Technology

What does a chart sound like?

Audio presentation will make data available to visually impaired users

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