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.
Research
Storytelling in data visualization: info...
Storytelling is shown as an effective approach to humanize information perception. However, its potential to build a biased view o...
1 years
Artigo
Research
Storytelling and Visualization: A Survey
Throughout history, storytelling has been an effective way of conveying information and knowledge. In the field of visualization, ...
1 years
Research
What I learned from seven years as the G...
Seven years ago I started working full time at the Guardian in the glamorous role of SEO editorial executive. For five of those ye...
1 years
Chris Moran
Research
Journalism, media, and technology trends...
How do media leaders view the year ahead?
1 years
Reuters Institute
How to
Optimizing 3D glTF Assets for Interactiv...
Want to make high-quality 3D stories for readers without the latest devices and slower connections? We open-sourced the @glTF3D ...
1 years
How to
Explanatory and Exploratory Information ...
Effective data communication often requires allowing users to explore the data and draw their own conclusions while also providing...
1 years
How to
Social Mobility in the Digital Age: A Tw...
‘Social Mobility in the Digital Age’ is the culmination of a year-long research project by Paris-based insights agency, L’Atelier ...
1 years
Gladeye
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Modeling Key World Cup Moments with Mach...
R&D used reference photos and videos of the venue, photos of the play, and player models created using a machine learning model ca...
1 years
New York Times
How to
Continue, Pivot, or Put It Down
The Pudding’s process to go from idea to data story
1 years
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,...
1 years
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.
1 years
Nightingale
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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 months
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 months
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