We asked everybody on the graphics team to share the favorite detail from their projects this year, as a way to give readers a look behind the scenes at how we think and what we like doing.
Here’s one of our favorites selected at random:
You can find more by clicking one of the other 30 favorite details
Other notable graphics of 2018
Mass shootings in America
How many days has it been since a high-profile departure from the Trump administration?
The rise of Burning Man
How foreign-born players put the ‘world’ in World Cup
Elections results: State pages
Spring is springing earlier and earlier
Art in an instant
Florence’s deluge, in real time
Can you fit in this bathroom?
How many years we lose to the air we breathe
In a year of political logos, campaigns of all stripes preferred blue
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2017. The year in graphics
Throughout a year of tumult and transformation, and so much news, the Post’s graphics team had a single goal: Help readers make sense of it all.
2016 in graphics: The year in must-see visualizations from The Post
16 in ’16: Must-see visualizations (other than the election) from the past year.