I believe there is a lot of value to visualizing data because visuals make great stories and can be useful in supporting quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.
I made this map using Flourish — it is one of my favorite tools for making dynamic visualizations.
Here’s one I made with DataWrapper:
Here is another Flourish visualization – a Gantt plot of senders imposing sanctions on DPRK between 1990-2023. This figure was originally created in Microsoft Excel for my paper with Charmaine N. Willis for Global Studies Quarterly (“Trading with Pariahs…”), but it is more customizable in Flourish:
