Simon Rogers
dataviz
Building an Alternative Olympic Medal Table
Since the modern Olympics began nearly 120 years ago, they have been dissected and evaluated through every possible angle. But data journalism is about looking at the world anew through the fresh lens of facts and numbers. With the Games in full swing, all eyes are on the medal table: who’s winning and which countries … Continue reading
How to make a multi-screen interactive
Sometimes you’ll want to join more than one map, chart or other visual together — but if you’re not a developer it can be a little tricky. This is where the iframe scaffolder by Paris-based developer from Journalism++ Pierre Romera comes in. I made this map — used by Mother Jones — using the tool, which made it simple to … Continue reading
A data journalist at Twitter
In 2013, as I was about to start at Twitter, Alex Howard wrote a piece pondering on just what a data journalist would do at a tech company. Now, as I’m about to begin a new adventure, I thought I should collect together a selection of the projects worked on with some amazing developers and others … Continue reading
Twitter Reverb: how we made a new #dataviz tool
Anybody who tells you that working with big data is straightforward is probably lying. Often, what you’re trying to do is to filter it down, make it simpler and easier to deal with. Twitter data is no exception—there are more than 500 million tweets sent every day and if you’re “non-eng” (not an engineer), that is … Continue reading
Gallery: taking #dataviz beyond infinity
If you were in downtown San Francisco recently, you may have seen a blue box in the middle of the street (yes, it was Tardis blue), next to the Embarcadero centre. Inside was a data visualisation conceived and created by Roundhouse in collaboration with Universal Everything. “Data visualisation” is underselling it. I got to work on the data part of … Continue reading
#SOTU2014: Visualizing the State of the Union
Just a quick post to highlight this interactive I got to work on with Nicolas Belmonte on the Twitter visual insights team. The idea is that you can use it to navigate around the speech and see the instant reaction on Twitter to each part of it — themed by geography and subject. Pro tip: When … Continue reading
Taking maps to the edge
We published an interactive map this week showing the world’s response to Typhoon Haiyan earlier this year. Click on a link and it shows combinations of the word “help” (in 22 languages) with terms around the disaster. The lines symbolically represent the flood of response going from each continent around the world to the Philippines. … Continue reading
Goodbye #NelsonMandela: visualising the response
One of the best things about being at Twitter is getting to work with designers like Miguel Rios. Miguel works with the great Visual Insights Team, which specialises in bringing the key data to life. This visualisation is something we created yesterday in the hours after Nelson Mandela’s death to show the outpouring of grief … Continue reading
What is data visualisation (for a non-technical audience)?
I asked Twitter how to explain data visualisation to a non-technical audience. Is it form, or function? Is it more important now to tell a story visually than ever? This is what Twitter replied. Do you agree – I’d love to know what you think in the comments field at the bottom of this article. … Continue reading
Chart: A data journalism workflow – translated into different languages
The Data Journalism workflow was originally designed by Guardian graphic artist Mark McCormick to illustrate our work on the Datablog. It’s since found its way into talks, presentations and the Data Journalism Handbook. Now it’s been translated by reporters around the world. This is all I’ve found so far – have you seen more (and … Continue reading
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