Data Journalism

How We Built the Data Visualization That Brought Brazil’s COVID Deaths Close to Home

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When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Brazil, a team of data journalists set out to illustrate what the death toll looked like by creating a data visualization that presented something beyond the numbers. The team considered various ways of displaying the story. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how they created At the Epicenter.

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COVID-19 en Brasil: Cómo creamos un mapa interactivo que ubica a los lectores en el epicentro de la epidemia

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Cuando la pandemia de COVID-19 afectó por primera vez a Brasil, un equipo de periodistas de datos se propuso ilustrar el número de muertos mediante la creación de una visualización de datos que presentara algo tangible a sus lectores. El equipo consideró varias formas diferentes de mostrar la historia, y esta es una mirada entre bastidores del producto final.

Data Journalism

Data Journalism Top 10: How US Infection Spread, Data Hires, Identity Theft, and Lightning Strikes vs. Lottery Wins

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Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 22 to 28 finds The New York Times analyzing travel patterns and genetic data to show how the disease spread across the United States, and the impact it has had on nursing homes and elderly care facilities. The Washington Post is responding to the increasing importance of visual data communication by expanding its data and graphics team, and the Pulitzer Center is calling for data journalism story proposals.

Журналистика данных

ТОП-10 журналистики данных: маршруты COVID-19 в США, кража личности и удар молнии против выигрыша в лотерею

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На неделе 22 по 28 июня LAMPA2020 учит упаковывать данные, New York Times оценивает влияние COVID на дома престарелых; The Washington Post расширяет свою дата-команду, Google News Initiative назвал имена 40 стипендиатов, а Пулитцеровский центр предлагает гранты на дата-проекты.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Stories with Maps, Tools with Charts, Casting for Shakespeare

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from October 15 to 21 finds @Esri’s @AllenCarroll talking the power of maps in storytelling, @visualizingdata’s catalogue of charts and corresponding tools to help information designers, and @ericwilliamlin’s deep dive into the data of casting decisions in Shakespearean plays since the 1900s.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: London’s Murder Hotspots, Hungary’s Media Monopoly, Data Journalism’s Fallacies

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 26 to December 2 finds @VRCCrimCam mapping London’s medieval murder hotspots, @geckoboard illustrating common data fallacies to avoid, @ddjournalism teases the beta launch of the Data Journalism Handbook 2.0, and @GoogleNewsInit displays its data journalism courses.

Data Journalism

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: AI-Powered Investigations, Why Companies Donate, Data From PDFs, UK Pay Gap

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from April 8 to 14 finds a zine focused on machine learning-powered investigative journalism produced by @bxrobertz, a video explainer from @FT on whether big corporations are really generous or just avoiding taxes, @knowtheory and @amandabee reviewing seven optical character recognition tools and @workbenchdata offering a tutorial on visualizing @Twitter data.