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Joanna S. Kao

The Financial Times

Joanna S. Kao is a data visualisation journalist at the Financial Times. She was previously a multimedia reporter and interactive developer who covered veterans issues, immigration, and homelessness at Al Jazeera America. She creates immersive long form story templates, experiments with audio storytelling, and explores theater-related data in her spare time.

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Projects

  1. How (and Why) the Financial Times made The Uber Game
  2. Meet FCC Squishify and OpenImage

Articles by Joanna S.

  1. Want More Reach? Stop Sidelining Accessibility

    Websites that work for (actually) everyone, even the youngs—lessons from a Mozfest 2017 session

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    The many reasons that accessibility can’t be overlooked.

  2. How (and Why) the Financial Times made The Uber Game

    From reporting to prototyping to letting users drive

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    An experiment by the Financial Times led readers through the life of an Uber driver.

  3. SRCCON Spotlight: Accessibility in Media

    A close look at the practicalities of making interactive and data journalism available to more people

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    The session on accessibility and media run by Joanna S. Kao and John Burn-Murdoch in 2016 was one of our favorites, and deals with one of those topics that hovers at the fringe of most newsroom-dev conversations.

  4. Finding the Story in 150 Million Rows of Data

    Al Jazeera America’s Joanna S. Kao on visualizing a hack’s implications

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    Al Jazeera America’s Joanna S. Kao on annotating and visualizing the Adobe database hack.

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  1. Editing Fellow

    The Trace

  2. Fundraising Officer

    Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

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Recently Added Code Repos

  1. Interactives Feed (Twitter bot)

  2. Google Sheet to JSON API

  3. Library

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