Author: John Wihbey
John Wihbey is an assistant professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University, where he heads the graduate programs in the School of Journalism. He is the author of The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2019).
How journalism students warmed up to data visualization tools Plot.ly and CartoDB
Recently here at Northeastern Journalism School’s Media Innovation graduate program we ran in-class workshops on data analysis using spreadsheets and then presented our students with a few datasets and two free […]
Understanding what makes a visualization memorable
John Wihbey teaches data journalism in the Media Innovation program at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. The world of data visualization has long been shaped by canonical ideas from theorists […]