Tag: Data Journalism

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June Injete

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.
Details from an infographic and magazine article, showing the Warming Stripes on a page in the background with another page showing a red-and-blue polar bar chart laying over the topT
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.
Book cover: Title is "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power In America." Author is Philip Bump, National Columnist for the Washington Post. Text is black, set on a background that looks like a colorful sunset of blues (top), purples (middle) and yellows (bottom).P
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.
Colleagues from the Kontinentalist news site, based in Singapore, pose on a tuktuk. Co-founder Pei Ying Loh is on far left; Editorial lead Nabilah Said is on the far right.H
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..