Insights
Learnings and interviews on the making of visual investigations.

How to
Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy...
Sophisticated data visualizations are pushing the bounds of what we can process, sometimes to the breaking point. What are the sig...
2 years

How to
11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time –...
The visualization you use to explore and display that data changes depending on what you’re after and data types. This is a guide ...
2 years

Interviews
Theresa Malone: Graphics Team Insights
In this interview with Theresa, the Guardian's Head of Visuals, we explore visual storytelling insights from the graphics team's w...
1 years

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...
2 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, ...
2 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...
2 years
Chris Moran

Research
Journalism, media, and technology trends...
How do media leaders view the year ahead?
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years
Gladeye

Research
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...
2 years
New York Times

How to
Continue, Pivot, or Put It Down
The Pudding’s process to go from idea to data story
2 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,...
2 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.
2 years
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.
2 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.
2 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...
2 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...
2 years
Distill.pub

Research
Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects ...
Narrative visualizations combine conventions of communicative and exploratory information visualization to convey an intended stor...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years
Stanford