Category Archives: Journalism in the Age of Data

The best way to learn about visualization is to make them, the same way that people learned about typography and desktop publishing. The results where not that good in the beginning but now people have gotten good at it.  With … Continue reading →

In the short film, Journalism In the Age of Data,  Fernanda Viegas, an IBM researcher, says: “Half of our brain is hardwired for vision. Vision is the biggest bandwidth that we have in terms of sensory information to the outside … Continue reading →

We all know that the visual is important.  It’s why we are in this program.  The visual and the interactive are the basis for a lot of what we do and what we will do after this program has been … Continue reading →

I hate infographics.  Or I should say, I hate what most people think of when they hear the word “infographic.”  It is not impossible to create a good infographic, and there are certain situations in which data visualization is the … Continue reading →

This is my favorite short film that we’ve watched this semester. I have always had a love for data and math (mind you, very simple math), but also design. I have a very odd brain — my Dad is a … Continue reading →

I think there are a lot of takeaways from the video “Journalism in the Age of Data.” The biggest I found was that data visualization often allows users to find new trends and connections in both complicated and simple data … Continue reading →

Data visualization is everywhere.  It is not something that I realized until recently, and now I am seeing it all the time. I did not realize that there was so much of a need for information design in this manner.  … Continue reading →

  Data Visualization is here to stay! I really enjoyed watching the documentary Journalism in the age of data. I think it shows the application of skills that we are learning in the program in real world use.  Countless times … Continue reading →

This documentary was an interesting look into the merger of data overload and design.  Data visualization is a great way to make large collections of data communicate a story to the public that would otherwise be overlooked or too difficult … Continue reading →