Tag: data journalism
ProPublica’s Emily Hopkins encourages students to consider careers in data journalism
The way journalists tell stories is constantly evolving, with data increasingly becoming an integral tool for reporting daily news. That’s something journalist Emily Hopkins learned as a graduate student at […]
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 […]
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 […]
How FiveThirtyEight’s Julia Wolfe addresses data literacy
As the demand for a statistically literate workforce grows, the ability to produce data-driven stories increasingly provides journalists with distinctive and cutting edge career paths. Effective visualizations are crucial for […]
The proof is in The Pudding: How one online publication is using cutting-edge data visualizations to tell meaningful pop culture stories
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture through visual essays. Founded in 2017, The Pudding dives deep into issues and topics surrounding popular culture and […]
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 […]
How Lazaro Gamio of the New York Times visualized the COVID-19 death toll
As the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 has climbed beyond 500,000, it’s become increasingly difficult to conceptualize this number. The New York Times has been tracking COVID […]
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 […]
How the Parametric Press explains the environmental cost of digital consumption
Have you ever wondered how much carbon dioxide is released when you stream or download eBooks or videos? How about when you opened this article on your phone or computer? […]
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, […]
How Tifo Football is making soccer analytics easier to digest
Soccer – or football, as most of the world calls it – is the most popular sport in the world. As in other major sports, advanced data analytics are being […]
How Vox visualized sea and land ice loss over the last decade
Last December, Vox published a piece that uses interactive images and charts to visualize the loss of sea and land ice over the last decade. The reporter, Umair Irfan, focuses […]
How Vox explained China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure and development plan that will connect China to the rest of the world — an attempted renaissance of the historic Silk […]
How the Wall Street Journal made the College Board’s adversity scores interactive
The world of higher education reporting got more than its share of news coverage in 2019. Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to two weeks in jail for paying Rick Singer, […]
How the Washington Post logs fatal police shootings in the U.S.
The Washington Post first began examining fatal police shootings in the United States in 2015. The newspaper’s investigation that uncovered that the FBI was undercounting half the number of fatal […]