Data Storytelling Is Empowering Female Journalists in Kenya
A fellowship program is teaching Kenyan journalists to use data sources and data analysis to do investigative work. Here are three examples.
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Chesca Kirkland
The Making of “The Growing Influence of the Warming Stripes”
Chesca Kirkland shows the process behind her visualisation—from Nightingale Issue 2—that explores the growing influence of the Warming Stripes.
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TK Sajeev Kumar
A Chat With New York Times Graphics Editor Marco Hernandez
Journalist Marco Hernandez shares tips on graphic storytelling, why you should doodle, and how to visualize 4 billion plastic bottles.
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Kyle Dent
Philip Bump: Telling the Story of the Baby Boomers in Charts
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump tackled a whole generation in his book, The Aftermath. He used 127 charts to drive the analysis and the narrative.
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Evelina Judeikytė
How One Team of Journalists Puts Visuals at the Center of Every Story
As journalism outlets increasingly adopt data-driven and visually compelling “scrollytelling” stories, Kontinentalist has made them a fixture of its coverage.
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Heather Jones
SPOTLIGHT: Tipping Points
Sometimes inspiration can come from a really bad thing. This was a personal project I made after the “Me Too” deluge in late 2017, when..
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Jason Forrest
Behind the Scenes of “Unimaginable Death”
Below is an interview with the authors of “Unimaginable Death: Visualizations of COVID-19 Pandemic Milestones,” which appears this month as a supplement to Nightingale Magazine,..
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Senthil Natarajan
Meet the Data Visualization King of Basketball Twitter: Todd Whitehead
Not long ago, I had the opportunity sit down with Todd Whitehead to discuss how he creates visualizations that dominate the discourse. Please note that..
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Mara Pometti
Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy
All the images in this article are taken from a keynote about humanizing AI that I delivered in June 2022 at the London Tech Week...
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Karthik Muthuswamy
SPOTLIGHT: Do You Feel What Others Feel?
Emotions around the globe - Illustration by Gunilla Hagström
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Mark Palmer
Start with the Hero, Not the Story
To do a better job with data, take a moment to define your hero. Kat Greenbrook advises data analysts to start with the who, not..
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Chesca Kirkland
Behind the Scenes with Axios Data Visualization
Axios launched in 2017 as a news organisation with the mission ‘Smart Brevity,’ emphasizing the power of saying more with less. Their method of storytelling..
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Claire Santoro
“Cut Short”: Visualizing Lives Lost with Empathy and Impact
In May 2022, the U.S. hit the grim milestone of 1 million COVID deaths. Newsrooms across the country reported this statistic, often accompanied by sobering..
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Mia Szarvas
Visualizing Your Personal Gender Pay Gap: How Does Your Salary Compare?
Every year the Data Visualization Society (DVS) conducts a huge survey called the State of the Industry—collecting a rich array of data that paints a..
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Joshua Pine
Telling the Story of Urban Innovation and Pandemic Response with Data
In late March 2020, shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a global pandemic, the National League of Cities (NLC) partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies to create..
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Alexandra Khoo
Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
What started out as an experiment by Professor Niklas Elmqvist to make student work more meaningful gave rise to VisUMD. It’s a Medium blog that..
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