News & Analysis

How The New York Times Visualized Global Trends in White Extremist Attacks

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Last year The New York Times published an interactive article on white extremist killings from New Zealand to Norway to the United States. Using maps and a timeline to plot the data, the project revealed the troubling frequency and, in some cases, strange connections between the events. Here graphic designer Weiyi Cai explains how they obtained the data for project and the decisions they made about visualizing it.

পরামর্শ ও কৌশল

কোভিড-১৯ ডেটা চিত্রায়নের আগে যে ১০টি বিষয় মাথায় রাখবেন

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কোভিড-১৯ সংক্রান্ত বিপুল পরিমাণ ডেটা পাঠকের সামনে সহজবোধ্যভাবে তুলে ধরার অন্যতম কার্যকরী উপায় ডেটা ভিজ্যুয়ালাইজেশন। কিন্তু কিভাবে ডেটাকে চিত্রের মাধ্যমে উপস্থাপন করবেন সাংবাদিকরা? কোন ধরনের ডেটার জন্য কেমন গ্রাফিক্স ফরম্যাট বেছে নেবেন? বিশেষজ্ঞদের কাছ থেকে পাওয়া কিছু পরামর্শ পড়ুন এই লেখায়।

BBC

Beyond 800 Words: New Digital Story Formats

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For the inception of a BBC’s R&D project to explore alternatives to conventional news formats, the BBC’s Tristan Ferne conducted a review of the landscape of digital news, looking for innovations in article and video formats online. Here’s the 12 categories he came up with — along with a few others that didn’t quite fit his model.

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from Sept. 18 to 24 features Wikipedia of Data Visualization, the State of Data Journalism, Dear Data Postcard Kit, and German election data.

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from September 25 to October 1 has @FT mapping the route in a day of a London Uber driver, #NICAR18 registration opening up, @Lattif charting Africa’s internet shutdowns using @atlascharts and loads of German election data visualizations.

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from October 2 to 8 has @source’s overview of two years of mass shooting visualizations in the US, @merbroussard’s callout for information to future-proof data stories and @paulbradshaw shares his four favorite computational thinking examples from @DailyMirror, @puddingviz, @BuzzFeed and @washingtonpost.

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from January 8 to 14 finds free font-for-numbers by @InVisionApp, a William Playfair biography book review for @WSJBookReviews and @PublicDataLab’s just-released full version of its fake news field guide.

Data Journalism

This Week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from January 29 to February 4 finds an @UpshotNYT analysis of the influence of Trump’s tweeting on Republicans’ attitudes towards the NFL, a new font typeface made out of human silhouettes created by @albertocairo and a fun Graphic Continuum card set by @jschwabish and @dataviz_catalog to use in the classroom.