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Category: Roundups

Visualizing Uncertainty in the Time of COVID-19: New York University’s Enrico Bertini on the role of uncertainty

Editor’s note: This is the third of three stories Storybench is publishing about the recent “Visualizing Uncertainty” conference at Northeastern University An ongoing issue journalists and graphic designers face as […]

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 Lauren Thomas Roundups

Visualizing Uncertainty in the Time of COVID-19: The New York Times’ Josh Holder on leading with questions when demonstrating uncertainty

Editor’s note: This is the second of three stories Storybench is publishing about the recent “Visualizing Uncertainty” conference at Northeastern University. Read the first one here. Visualizing uncertainty with data-rich […]

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 Lauren Thomas Roundups

Visualizing Uncertainty in the Time of COVID-19: The Washington Post’s Chiqui Esteban on the Power of Words

Editor’s note: This is one of three stories Storybench is publishing about the recent “Visualizing Uncertainty” conference at Northeastern University At the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic lay uncertainty. For […]

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Lauren Thomas Roundups

Bike-friendly Boston: These five datasets let journalists track the city’s progress

A bike is a simple contraption, but making cities bike-friendly? Not so easy. After decades of cars dominating the streets, integrating bike-friendly traffic lanes and traffic patterns is a slow […]

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 Saima Sidik Roundups

C+J 2021: How the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped data journalism

As COVID-19 cases surged throughout the last year, so did data visualizations. Graphical concepts like flattening the curve became household terms, and even non-epidemiologists began talking about R numbers and […]

March 3, 2021March 15, 2021 Saima Sidik Insights, Media Watch, Roundups

A roundup of coronavirus dashboards, datasets and resources

Access and availability of data on the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, are essential for understanding how the virus spreads, who is most likely to get it, […]

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Martin Frigaard Roundups

Five ways organizations are visualizing carbon emissions

Climate change is a global issue and scientists and journalists alike are increasingly making climate-related data more visible and accessible. Understanding the major causes and contributors to emissions of CO2, […]

January 15, 2020January 24, 2020 Julia Hong Climate Journalism Lab, Roundups

Six ways you might consider visualizing political issues and ideologies this election

With the 2020 election around the corner, we’re on the look out for new ways news outlets, advocacy groups and other organizations are visualizing political stances and voter opinions. Below […]

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Ian Toman Roundups

Six digital skills all new journalists should consider learning and a road map to unlocking them

If you’re new to journalism, as I am, you may have noticed that the industry is in the midst of growing pains right now. If you’re currently studying for the […]

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Daniel Hentz Roundups

Eight tools, datasets and resources from the Open Data Science Conference

This week, thousands of data scientists, software developers, machine learning experts and other data-curious gathered in Boston for the ODSC East conference. Between hands-on training sessions and dynamic keynote speeches from people […]

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Aleszu Bajak Roundups

Six tools showcased at NICAR 2019 that you should probably learn

When it comes to a major data journalism conference like NICAR, you can probably predict that a few popular data visualization and analysis tools are going to receive a lot […]

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 Gibby Free Roundups

NICAR: With the right tools, anyone can be a data journalist

By Alyssa Lukpat At the annual sleep-away camp for news nerds, better known as the computer-assisted reporting conference NICAR, held last weekend in Newport Beach, Calif., data journalists from around […]

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Guest Roundups

Six fascinating projects from the 2019 Computation + Journalism Symposium in Miami

How often is social media used as a source in news stories? Can a decision-tree algorithm generate tens-of-thousands of 250-word stories? And what is belief-driven data journalism? Those questions lie […]

February 6, 2019April 10, 2019 Gibby Free Insights, Roundups

Five Venezuelans that are explaining the situation unfolding in my country

Venezuela is the topic du jour. With Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and Marco Rubio all voicing their support for the country’s new, self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaidó, what seems […]

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Fabiana Echeverria Roundups

Six ways media outlets are tracking presidential candidates for 2020

If you’re still reeling from the round-the-clock coverage of the 2016 presidential election, we have some bad news: It’s starting all over again. With the midterms past us, the stage […]

January 22, 2019April 10, 2019 Alexander Frandsen Election Tracker, Roundups

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