Insights
A collection of best practices, research insights and expert interviews to help independent journalists create captivating visual investigations and data stories that inform broad audiences.
How to
Continue, Pivot, or Put It Down
The Pudding’s process to go from idea to data story
11 months
How to
Making Internet Things, Part 3: Storytel...
This is the third installment of a multi-part series designed to help you familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual,...
11 months
Making Internet Things, Part 3: Storytelling
Research
Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Soci...
Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism.
12 months
Nightingale
How to
A news photo editor’s nightmare is an ar...
When it comes to text-to-image technology, the future is now. But with it arrives a host of ethical and legal questions.
1 years
Research
What Storytelling Can Do For Information...
Storytelling allows visualization to reveal information as effectively and intuitively as if the viewer were watching a movie.
1 years
Communications of the ACM
Research
Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualiz...
Stories are not only a good way to present data, they also work as a means of packaging information and knowledge in a way that is...
1 years
Data Plus Science
Communicating with Interactive Articles
Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualizat...
1 years
Distill.pub
Research
Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects ...
Narrative visualizations combine conventions of communicative and exploratory information visualization to convey an intended stor...
1 years
Research
Visual Narrative Flow: Exploring Factors...
Many factors can shape the flow of visual data-driven stories, and thereby the way readers experience those stories. Through the a...
1 years
SCI UTAH
Interviews
Victor Agulhon: Virtual Reality Journali...
Victor is the cofounder of TARGO, a two-time Emmy-nominated virtual reality production studio. In this interview we talk about VR ...
1 years
Interviews
Matt Conlen - Explorables and the Conver...
The pain of having to know a set of skills that are far removed from the work of journalism, which always has a deadline. These ar...
1 years
Research
An Argument Structure for Data Stories
Many data stories in journalism do not have a story arc, but rather present facts without much structure. This mirrors the popular...
1 years
Kosara Eurovis
Research
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories...
Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these “data stories” differ in importa...
1 years
Stanford
How to
Research
Magic Ink: Information Software and the ...
In this paper, Bret Victor suggests that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided. For a majority subset of softw...
1 years
Worry Dream
Research
Digital News Report 2022
While some individual news media have clearly been very successful at building online reach or convincing people to subscribe, and...
1 years
Interviews
Victor Targulon - Immersive Journalism
The pain of having to know a set of skills that are far removed from the work of journalism, which always has a deadline. These ar...
1 years