Author: Yan Wu
How we plotted 17,000 data points in 3D to explore police use of force in New Jersey
Last November, I pushed my first commit to Github having no idea what I was in for: creating visualizations with more than 17,000 data points representing police officers who had […]
How the Wall Street Journal filmed a 360-degree video on mixed martial arts
Last month, The Wall Street Journal published a 360-degree video to accompany “The New Queen of the UFC Defends Her Crown,” a 2,200-word article on Amanda Nunes, a top female […]
How to get more bang for your buck out of science photographs
Do science pictures need to be pretty? Is there ever a case for retouching a science photograph? And do good images help researchers get attention for their work? Yes, yes and […]
How one French data visualization studio is bridging narrative and statistics
Could a quiz help explain the massive amounts of money controlled by Fifa, the international soccer organization? Could a visualization help French citizens imagine the makeup of a future government? And […]
How the Wall Street Journal visualized the 500+ conflicts of interest of The Trumps
The Wall Street Journal recently published an interactive graphic showing the Trump family’s more than 500 potential conflicts of interest. In it, a galaxy of dots and lines show the complicated relationships […]
One computer scientist’s strategies for improving network visualizations
We are living in a world that is awash in data. To present complex information, people use visualizations that help detect trends, clusters, gaps and outliers almost instantly. But are these […]
Using animation to protect sources while telling true stories of gay life in China
The tremendous anti-gay stigma in mainland China has made it difficult for stories about homosexuality to emerge in the Chinese media outlets, even though pockets of tolerance are beginning to […]
How a Chinese news app has users earning money reading and sharing news
Bingdu is a Chinese news app that allows users both to read the news and make money off their experience. It was downloaded nearly 5 million times within two months of its launch […]
How The New York Times made the #thisis2016 video of Asian-Americans responding to racism
After a woman told his family to “go back to China” last month, Michael Luo, deputy Metro editor and an editor on the Race Related team at The New York Times, […]
How machine learning could change journalism
A fact-checking tool built into a content management system, text “filters” that could detect spam messages, a search engine that could give results according to a user’s level of education. Walter […]
A new video storytelling platform tries to make filmmaking easier
The University of Arizona recently licensed a new social media and video platform called Filmstacker. It helps users upload their own video, search for other video clips, and assemble them into their […]
How a photojournalist is using cartooning in international reporting
The harrowing cartoon images in Ca$h Cow, a series about a Tanzania girl who was abducted and then raped and beaten every day for eleven months represent a new genre […]
How the AP experimented with 360 video after the Chelsea bombing in NYC
At 2:52 a.m on September 18, less than seven hours after the bombings in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Associated Press uploaded to Facebook a one-minute-long 360-degree video of people reacting to the explosion. […]