Month: March 2024

Three images of Saturn's changing rings between 2023, 2024, and 2025, where the rings are most visible in 2023, less visible in 2024, and least visible in 2025.V
Samantha Nicklaus

Visualizing the History of Saturn and its Rings

In March 2025, Saturn’s rings will disappear. Well, this isn’t entirely true. NASA has confirmed that the rings will disappear, yes, but they will only disappear from Earth’s view.
A portion of the first light image from IkonosF
Robert Simmon

From Space to Story in Data Journalism

The launch of Ikonos was one of a handful of developments that allowed newsrooms to expand from reporting on rocket launches and satellite hardware, to using remote sensing data as an essential tool to help tell stories.
A photo of the band Ghost in front of a visual music sound wave.V
Mackenzie Mercer

Visualizing Music Through Data: Are The Most Popular Ghost Songs Statistically More Metal?

Ghost, the Swedish satanic metal band that blew up during the summer of 2022 when their song “Mary On A Cross” went viral on TikTok, now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify—rising from around 2 million before summer of 2021.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Teo Popescu

Teo Popescu is the new section editor of Nightingale. She is the creative manager at KUOW, one of the Seattle branches of National Public Radio.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Alejandra Arevalo

Alejandra Arevalo is a Peruvian multimedia journalist and engineer based in San Francisco. A self-taught coder, she currently works as a developer at Hearst Newspapers where she focuses on data visualization and interactive storytelling.
A landscape oriented, digital interface with several filters that maps the Free or Reduced Lunch status of public schools found in Kansas and Missouri.I
Christopher Laubenthal

Internal Design: Success Requires Form and Function

My journey with EdWise and the Career Explorer Tools taught me about generating change using innovative data visualization within an organization.
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Kayla Marie

A Visual Compliment: Charting Kindness in Data

This story details and visualizes the time Kayla Marie set out to track how many compliments she gave in a week, but came away with having received almost as many as she gave.