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6 Ways Data Journalism is Making Sense of the World

6 Ways Data Journalism is Making Sense of the World | visual data | Scoop.it
From radar.oreilly.com - December 22, 2012 7:41 PM

When I wrote that Radar was investigating data journalism and asked for your favorite examples of good work, we heard back from around the world.

I received emails from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Canada and Italy that featured data visualization, explored the role of data in government accountability, and shared how open data can revolutionize environmental reporting...


It was instructive to learn more about the work of two large media organizations, the Los Angeles Times and Canada’s Global News, which have been building their capacity to practice data journalism. The other international perspectives in my inbox and tweet stream, however, were a reminder that big-city newsrooms that can afford teams of programmers and designers aren’t the only players here.acts of data journalism by small teams or individuals aren’t just plausible, they’re happening — from Italy to Brazil to Africa.


That doesn’t mean that the news application teams at NPR, The Guardian, ProPublica or the New York Times aren’t setting the pace for data journalism when it comes to cutting edge work — far from it — but the tools and techniques to make something worthwhile are being democratized.

That’s possible in no small part because of the trend toward open source tools and social coding I’m seeing online, from Open Street Map to more open elections...

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An interesting overall look at the state of data journalism on varying scales, as explored through the examination of case studies, resources and applications.

Of particular interest is the role of open data in generating content, and how that may affect the future of data visualization.

Still, the numerous online links provided within the article offer a substantial number of references on a broad range of topics that pertain to data journalism and visualization.

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Here's What The Internet Looks Like: Visualizing the Web

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From thecreatorsproject.vice.com - May 15, 6:54 PM

These data visualizations, caricatures, and images capture the internet in all it's wiry glory.

Though we use it every day in countless ways, the Internet remains mostly faceless to us. Like a faint memory, we feel we know it intimately but have no sense of its size, its scale, or its design.


To give form to what we too prevalently consider a formless entity, we've rounded up some impressive attempts at capturing its likeness--from data visualization to caricature--to better answer the question: What is the Internet, anyway?

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Visualization for supporting Scientific information

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From sisobproject.wordpress.com - October 17, 2011 3:05 PM

Thanks to the progress that has taken place in the field of information technology in the last years, both the general and specialized public (e.g. research centres) have gained access to huge quantities of information. However, such data are useless to the user unless he/she knows how to interpret them easily and effectively.
Visualization should be understood as creating, through graphical means, visual representations of a concept, idea or a set of data that cannot be grasped or explained with the help of ordinary methods. Scientific visualization transforms abstract scientific data into image, for instance diagrams that represent mathematical functions or graphs that show communication networks.

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Artists use data to make political statements

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From www.bbc.co.uk - February 8, 1:25 PM

Big data can feel impersonal, overwhelming and cold. But stark statistics are now being used to make intimate statements through art and public advocacy.


The past few years have seen the widespread availability of a large amount of data, thanks largely to the internet.

Census reports are easily searchable, campaign polling is expertly parsed and analysed, and online dating behaviour provides a glimpse into human sexuality.


Now more artists are using these impersonal details to make an impassioned statement; visit the article link for examples.

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Everything Sings: Making the Case for a New Cartography

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From www.brainpickings.org - September 10, 2011 4:29 PM
What Ira Glass has to do with atlas antagonism, or what plotting carved pumpkins reveals about place.

The most intimate infographics of all may be maps, those images that tell of our complicated relationships to place, bounded by time. Or at least, this is just one of the interesting arguments made by the book Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, a beautiful exploration of a small North Carolina neighborhood that also provides a platform for much larger ideas.

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