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Berliner Morgenpost’s interactive bus ride through Berlin

January 19, 2015August 10, 2015 by Aleszu Bajak

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Last week, the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published an interactive following one bus route that winds its way “through the social universe” of Berlin. The newspaper visualizes statistics from each neighborhood visited by the M29 bus, including migrant makeup, rent increase, income and burglaries, among other data.

Income

Bismarckplatz, near Berlin’s Grunewald forest, has some of the highest net income levels per household.

income

Rent increase

Sonnenallee has seen some of the highest increases in rent in the city. Must be the Döner kebabs.

rent

Data ethics

We asked one of the visualization’s designers, Julius Tröger, about the choice not to superimpose the charts.

@storybench Thanks! We thought about that. But we use different data granularity (post code areas, electoral districts, neighborhoods,…)

— Julius Tröger (@juliustroeger) January 16, 2015

What were the charts built with?

The charts were built with C3.js, a D3 Javascript-based reusable chart library. Tröger designed the feature along with Theresa Rentsch, Moritz Klack, Max Boenke, David Wendler and André Pätzold.

One nice touch: they admitted in the visualization’s credits to being inspired by The New Yorker‘s Inequality and New York Subway Map.

Immigrant makeup

migrant

Burglaries

burgl

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Aleszu Bajak

Aleszu Bajak was the founding editor of Storybench. He is currently the director of data visualization at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a senior data reporter on USA TODAY's data team, part of the newspaper's national investigative unit. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T., was a founding senior writer at Undark magazine and founding editor of Esquire Classic, a project resuscitating the magazine's archives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.

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