This file collects information pertaining to ways in which the interaction between scientific data and journalism could be enhanced, particulary in the context of open research.
We see no principle reason why approaches like embedded journalism would have to remain limited to military contexts, or prohibited to report negative results.
* Indeed, the concept of embedding journalists might well be better suited to the research process, and under terms like "journalist in residence", such interactions are being explored, though rarely with a focus on data.
Journalists, museums, or other science communicators could begin to interact with research projects before these even start and embed themselves and their audiences into the research process much more than they can now, thereby facilitating new approaches to public engagement with science.
Science journalists could enrich their current "scientists found out" reports with some of the "scientists are investigating - let's see how they do it!" variant, or reports on topics like animal rights in research with more pertinent data. Finally, the public would benefit from all of this - shorter research cycles, more efficient use of research funds, and a better understanding of what it actually means when scientists "found out" or "are investigating" something.
- The History Of Europe Lies In British People's DNA
- Similar story based on an individual's 23&me profile: Die Vorfahren aus Afrika, die Tochter semmelblond
- Doing Journalism with Data
- 4 reasons disease outbreaks are erupting around the world
- Do vacant properties explain Miami's Zika outbreak?
- Concussion — Journalist Alan Schwarz crunches the numbers
- More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
- Ecological footprint of electric cars
- A story about team and player stats from the Portland Trail Blazers (basketball)
- Here's What Will Happen After a Huge Earthquake Inevitably Hits California — discusses and links to relevant data; no visualizations
- How the First Farmers Changed History — a very nice write-up but does not engage with the data directly
- In to Asia — New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in: the story of our species needs rewriting again — a very nice write-up tying together different strands of evidence about the role of Asia in hominin evolution during the Pleistocene, but it too does not present any data directly other than the cave art video from Sulawesi
- Using New Data Insights to Grow and Maintain Loyalty with Kroger and The Wall Street Journal
- Estonia, the Digital Republic
- Collision Course: Why This Type Of Road Junction Will Keep Killing Cyclists
- Why medical journals must make researchers share data from clinical trials
- What We’ve Learned About Sharing Our Data Analysis
- Researchers Sharing Data Was Supposed to Change Science Forever. Did It?
- Inside a monkey lab, research gets fast-tracked in the ‘Zika room’
- How mobile data visualization helped reduce malaria cases by 93% — Zika could be next
- Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover
- Storytelling with Big Data: Thoughts on VISUALIZED
- LiveStories Empowers Rapid Responses to Health Crises
- Genetic testing fumbles, revealing ‘dark side’ of precision medicine
- Mesmerizing Commute Maps Reveal We All Live in Mega-Regions, Not Cities
- The visualizations transforming biology
- Cutaway infographics
- 1 tip for effective data visualization in Python
- Paper: An Argument Structure for Data Stories
- Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. Soon, we may get to see one up close for the first time.
- What’s Going On in This Graph? — on a scarf knitted based on data about communting delays in Bavaria in 2018
- Information is beautiful
- Draw Science
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
- Walnut.io
- Automating big-data analysis
- Tube Heartbeat
- Data Stories
- MakeOverMonday — "chasing poor data vizzes"
- Datenlese
- DSI course on visualization
- Migration between Eastern and Western Germany
- If the Moon were only 1 pixel
- Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing
- A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
- VisTools — data visualization tools
- Global shark tracker
- What's there (real-time feed of Instagram photos by location)
- Synchronicity (stream of sunset/ sunrise photos)
- Geigermap
- The Internet in Real-Time
- TRAVIC - Transit Visualization Client
- Marine Traffic
- flightradar24
- emoji tracker - imagine this to be research-relevant identifiers (and no blinking)
- Real-time Readership at an institutional repository
- ESA's cool new interactive comet visualization tool based on amateur imaging work with open data
- SmartRoadSense — measures road quality in Italy using triaxial accelometers in smartphones
- Green: Vegetation on Our Planet (Tour of Earth)
- Visualization of Migration of Honey Buzzards
- Life calendar (one box for every week in a span of 90 years)
- Visualizations on the impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti (overview page with links to individual interactive visualizations/ maps)
- Surging Seas: map of sea level rise
- 72 Hours of Global Air Traffic in 13 seconds
- 200k years of human history — "The History of the World: Every Year"
- simple: visualizing reading progress
- A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
- "Found some interesting data and decided to viz it"
- on Ebola outbreak data
- Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820
- Watch bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance in just 12 days
- Visualization of gravity in the classroom
- Visualization of a plan — Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)
- Population stats
- Visualizing freely available citation data using VOSviewer
- live global map of winds
- Single-atom photography
- 10 world maps highlighting specific aspects of our planet's countries
- World War II on All Fronts: Every Day
- Human Population Through Time
- Global Infections by the Numbers
- Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris — seen here
- "interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline"
- Population Mountains
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Each dot represents 1,000,000 square meters. Deeper shades of red represent more people.
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- How many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country? (seen here)
- Spiegelmining — with zoomable map of topics covered in articles in the Spiegel newspaper's online edition
- How America Uses Its Land
- Climate change dataviz at Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony — I did not watch the whole thing but just the ca. 5 min related to climate change, prompted by this tweet
- Warming stripes
- Moore’s Law predictions vs actual growth in transistor count
- Climate Clock — indicates the time until we reach 1.5°C or 2°C of global warming with respect to pre-industrial levels.
- How iNternational is iNaturalist?
- Show Me The Way — visualizes recent OpenStreetMap edits
- Visualizing the Accumulation of Human-Made Mass on Earth
- Light House Map
- Listen to Wikipedia
- Wikidata Recent changes live stream
- Wikidata Galaxy
- WikiReplay
- WikiStream
- WikiPulse
- fork: WikiSpeed
- Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
- Langton's ant (on Spanish Wikipedia)
- selection of other examples
- Wikipedia and Wikidata Realtime Edit Stats
- Crotos/ Callisto
- Growth of Wikimedia projects
- real-time analysis of wikipedia edits
- Hit parade of composers played in the Concert House Berlin
- further Wikimedia examples
- See also
- Network graph of sister cities with over 1 million inhabitants created with Wikidata, Gephi & SigmaJS — seen via this tweet
- Birth places of mayors
- accompanying blog post: Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL
- an interactive people map of the USA, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia'ed resident
- Carbon budget calculator
- 5 open source dashboard tools for visualizing data
- Bokeh
- English words that are HTML hex color codes
- Data Journalism Handbook
- Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientitst at NY Times)
- Vega, a visualization grammar
- GitHub showcases: Open journalism
- Four ways to include data journalism in bootstrapped newsrooms
- DataN — a training package for data journalism
- DataViva — designed "to make reports obsolete"
- Story as Evidence, Evidence as Story — on the role of data versus stories in communicating research with the public
- Using Open Data, a Scientist Is Finding New York City’s Best Stories
- $4.7 Million Data Journalism Initiative Launched in Africa
- Reddit AMA on science behind computer-based visualization
- People-Powered Data Visualization
- Big Data infographic: Bright Lights, Big Data
- Visual journal Draw Science
- Visual search
- Accurat.it
- January 1, 1925: The Day We Discovered the Universe
- Tiny Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon
- job ad for data journalist at Washington Post
- The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development
It’s filled with annotated data visualizations, which can be reproducibly built from source code and data. You can view the SDG Atlas online, download the PDF publication (30Mb), and access the data and source code behind the figures.
- Data journalism awards — some background
- GitHub repo for Computational journalism at Columbia University
- The (Twitter) Follower Factory