Over the past year, data journalists on the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team have fundamentally changed how they produce graphics for publication on the BBC News website. In this post, we explain…
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10 of free courses to learn Data Structure and Algorithms for Java programmers.
John Snow's map of cholera outbreaks from nineteenth century London changed how we saw a disease - and gave data journalists a model of how to work today
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
If you enjoyed the first Data Journalism UK conference on November 22, or followed from afar, I’ve gathered together all the presentations from the day on a special Slideshare account here. T…
Watch each start group in a time lapse, find out how Heartbreak Hill influences performance, and compare participation and performance of previous races.
How can you get better at communicating your data? This list of 10 tips will get you on the right track. Here are top tips for better data storytelling.
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Mike Bostock is one of data visualization's leading lights. As creator of the hugely popular visualization library D3.js and editor in The New York Times' graphics department, he has had a hand (visibly and invisibly) in most of the widely shared interactives on the web. Today Bostock posted an …
Payman Taei's round-up of 15 data visualizations that will not only blow your mind, they will give you a clearer understanding of what makes a great visualization. Feast your eyes on these beauties!
"I was not satisfied with covering low-income communities for a higher-income audience. I wanted to cover issues for and with low-income news consumers."
The line chart’s fraternal twin. Line charts display three or more points in time while slope charts display exactly two points in time. Defined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, this type of chart is useful for seeing (referred to the first example below): the hierarchy of the countries in […]
In this post, I will look through the many types of Area Graphs that exist, that I haven't touched on in the past.
The South China Morning Post print Arcade
Ever heard of the DIKW pyramid? It stands for the Data / Information / Knowledge / Wisdom pyramid. Sometimes it is also referenced as “DIKW Hierarchy”, “Wisdom Hierarchy”, &…
by Greta C. Vega & Estefanía Casal
Another creation based on Paris... So, my question to you is, would you put the first step at the top and the final tour at the end just as it is, or would you invert the process and have the final image at the top ?
If you're looking a guide to making publication-ready data visualizations in R, check out the BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics. Announced in a BBC blog post this week, it provides scripts for making line charts, bar charts, and other visualizations like those below used in the BBC's data journalism. The cookbook is based around the bbplot package (available on Github), which has been in use at the BBC since March 2018 for creating graphics in the BBC News graphics style. Rather than drafting graphics in R and then relying another graphics tool or a design team...
Digital Science’s interactive network visualisation for the latest Nature Index Supplement The latest Nature Index supplement takes a detailed tour through global scientific collaboration. Author affiliation data extracted from 57,501 articles published in 2014 in a slice of top-performing journals (the Nature Index database) allow an inspection of who works with who in contributing to this peak […]
Download a copy of my Core Principles of Data Visualization Cheat Sheet, a summary of intro material to do a better job communicating your data.
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations
The exhibition of famed artist Pablo Picasso's classic work at the Heritage Museum in Sha Tin opened in mid-May 2012 and drew huge crowds. But the paintings and sculptures on display are just a tiny fraction of the work the Spaniard produced in his lifetime - he is estimated to have been responsible for 5,717 paintings, each of which is shown here.
