How people’s feelings about the weather, scrobbled from social media data, compares to the actual weather – CLEVER*FRANKE. Full PDF here.
Also see Jonathan Harris’s We Feel Fine project, visualizing feelings on the social web.
To celebrate reaching 1 million followers the Washington Post put together an interactive graphic featuring all their followers.
More here: http://wapo.st/M2C7DT
wnyc:
One in five people stopped last year by the New York City police department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18, according to a WNYC analysis of recently released police data.
And there were more than 120,000 stops of black and Latino kids between 14 and 18. The total number of black and Latino boys that age in the entire city isn’t much more than that – about 177,000 – which strongly suggests a teen male with dark skin in New York City will probably get stopped and frisked by the time he’s graduated from high school.
Map and story at WNYC.org.
How La Nación is using data to challenge a FOIA-free culture » Nieman Journalism Lab
How La Nacion decided to focus on data journalism and how they are training their journalists to handle data in an accessible way.
Nieman Journalism Lab
NPR has hired Brian Boyer, head of the Chicago Tribune’s news apps team, to lead a new, similar team of data grinders and designers focused full-time on interactive storytelling. That makes NPR the latest major outlet — like The New York Times and The Boston Globe — to devote newsroom resources to news apps.“Apps,” in this context, means interactive, data-driven visualizations of the news on any platform. The network was already creating these — Poisoned Places, The Fracking Boom — but with resources scattered across departments.
The new team is seven people, including Boyer, Matt Stiles, who has done database reporting for NPR’s StateImpact project, three staff designers, and two yet-to-be-filled positions.
Tohoku tsunami wave height (predicted)
font designed so that the “amount of dark pixels in a numerical character is proportional to the number it represents” for visualization
Way cool.
Wolff Olins Blog: In NYT infographics, a lesson for brands
We know that the New York Times are infographics geniuses. They visualize data to track sentiment on a topic, while inviting you to participate in the conversation or even start a new one. Sorting features allow you to find “your people” and compare ideas.
