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Same Diff: The English-Language Press Maps the French Election
By David Yanofsky
Posted onHere’s a reminder: In normal times, US-based publications normally don’t put much effort into visualizing foreign elections. Of course, with presidency of Donald Trump, a British vote to leave the European Union, and a presidential election in France without either of the mainstream political parties qualifying, we don’t live in normal times.
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Playing with Suspense in Data Visualizations
By Lam Thuy Vo
Posted onFor a recent story about how Washington Post editor Doris Truong became the center of a partisan online flame war, we wanted to illustrate what happens when a person becomes part of viral false story and subject to online trolling.
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Connecting with the Dots
By Jacob Harris
Posted onJake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots
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How (and Why) We Made Twitter Reverb
By Simon Rogers
Posted onTwitter’s Simon Rogers introduces Reverb and walks through his team’s design and development work with Periscopic.
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What If the Data Visualization Is Actually People?
By Sarah Slobin
Posted onSarah Slobin discovers that all the facts and numbers didn’t add up to the humans in her story.
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Meet Bloomberg’s Dataview
By Jeremy Scott Diamond
Posted onOne of our most recent works, “How Americans Die,” is an instance of what we call a “dataview.” The impetus behind dataview was a hope to provide clear and concise storytelling, while giving the supporting data more prominence and explorability.
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How and Why Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Rocks
By Wes Lindamood
Posted onWes Lindamood explains the magic of working together from the start with a UX-driven process
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Model Analysis
By Erik Hinton
Posted onThe New York Times’ Erik Hinton breaks down a Fashion Week colorbar special feature with bonus fancy math.
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Creating Games for Journalism
By Sisi Wei
Posted onSisi Wei makes the case for newsgames and shows you how it’s done
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Creating The Grid: a Story of Prototyping
By Joey Marburger
Posted onJoey Marburger on the prototype process behind creating the Washington Post’s interactive, The Grid
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Visual Literacy in an Age of Data
By Shazna Nessa
Posted onShazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously.
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Men’s NCAA Interactive: Redesigning Bracket Slightly Easier than Winning It
By Sean McDade
Posted onSean McDade reinvents the wheel with the Associated Press Final Four Interactive.
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Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics
By Lena Groeger
Posted onLena Groeger’s lowdown on how to apply classic design principles to your newfangled interactive graphics and apps.