Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

Q. So, very first thing, ICIJ has said that it will release a batch of data later this spring, but not the entire dataset—could you say a little about that, and about the way you’re timing the ...

Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in ...

With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...

The secret weapon wielded by the Enterprise Visuals team at the Wall Street Journal is collaboration. A lot of it. For our latest project, which dissects the rhyme schemes of the hit musical Hamilton, ...

“Are we there yet?” It’s a classic question. You’re a kid. And you’re in the back seat of the car. And it’s an endless drive. And you just want to know “When, when, when will the wait be over?” And ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

The San Francisco Chronicle uses data from the collaborative effort in its live Coronavirus Tracker. California data journalists have teamed up to gather and publish COVID-19 cases and deaths across ...

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The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP). It’s a comparison tool for currencies, based on Big Mac prices and exchange rates. It helps to show whether a currency is ...

Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

Example of the Playbook in use. The Financial Times covers news, and quite a lot of it. We publish around 150 articles every day on topics ranging from news about leveraged loans to the coronation of ...