This document summarizes a data visualization workshop presented by Interactive Things and NZZ Data. It provides an agenda for the workshop which includes sessions on outlining concepts, creating visualizations, and addressing difficulties with visualizations. Examples are given of turning news stories into follow-up stories with data displays and interactive elements. Challenges with visualizing refugee flows and radiation dosage are also discussed.

1. Data Visualization Workshop
How to turn data into stories
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2. Alice Kohli
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
@alicekohli
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3. Benjamin Wiederkehr
Interactive Things
@datavis
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4. NZZ Data
nzz.ch/aktuell/data
@nzzdata
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6. Outlining the
Concept
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7. Projektbüro Fukushima

8. Die Reise beginnt… in Japan: Marcel Gyr, Christoph Bangert und Mitsuhiro Shoji

9. Die Reise beginnt… in Zürich: Sylke Gruhnwald, Peter Gassner, Martina Franzén, Flavio Gortana, Benjamin Wiederkehr

13. Creating the
Visualizations
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15. Soma City
Date City
Fukushima
Iitate Village
Minamisoma
City
Kawamata
Town
Nihonmatsu City
Tatsuno Village
Katsurao
Village
Fukushima Daiichi
20km
Namie Town
30km
Futaba
Town
Tamura City
50km
Fukushima Daiichi
20km
100km
Okuma Town
Kawauchi Village
Ono
Town
200km
Kyoto
Strahlenbelastung
300km
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8~
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Hirata
Village
Tomioka
Town
NarahaTown
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5km
Hirono
Town
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16. Your excercise for the next hour
1. Pick a story from the newsfeed (articles from news agencies)
2. Read the story (if necessary, pick another story)
3. Define which elements of the story are interesting to follow up?
4. Decide what publication would the follow-up story be for?
5. How is the follow-up-story set up? How is the data displayed? How do you incorporate
interactive elements?
6. Set a title and a lead – make sure it corresponds to the publication you chose in (4)
7. Design a poster for your story
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17. Here’s an example
OTTAWA, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Canada's economy churned out a surprising 59,200 jobs in August, nearly triple the number
expected, but most of the gains were in part-time work and the six-month trend in the labor
market remains modest.
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18. Here’s an example
OTTAWA, Sept 6 (Reuters)
How many jobs where there in July? In
August of the previous year?
Canada's economy churned out a surprising 59,200 jobs in August, nearly triple the number
expected, but most of the gains were in part-time work and the six-month trend in the labor
market remains modest.
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20. Here’s an example
How is it compared to other countries? Which
country is most comparable to Canada?
OTTAWA, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Canada's economy churned out a surprising 59,200 jobs in August, nearly triple the number
expected, but most of the gains were in part-time work and the six-month trend in the labor
market remains modest.
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22. Here’s an example
OTTAWA, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Canada's economy churned out a surprising 59,200 jobs in August, nearly triple the number
expected, but most of the gains were in part-time work and the six-month trend in the labor
market remains modest.
Who expected what? Which
institutes provide prognoses?
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24. Here’s an example
KARACHI, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing
after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month. The
23-year-old had to drop out of the tour to Zimbabwe after being taken ill on a flight to Jamaica.
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25. Here’s an example
How about the other players of the
past? How did they regenerate?
KARACHI, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing
after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month. The
23-year-old had to drop out of the tour to Zimbabwe after being taken ill on a flight to Jamaica.
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27. Here’s an example
KARACHI, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing
after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month. The
23-year-old had to drop out of the tour to Zimbabwe after being taken ill on a flight to Jamaica.
How many people suffer
a fit, at what age?
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29. Here’s an example
KARACHI, Sept 6 (Reuters)
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing
after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month. The
23-year-old had to drop out of the tour to Zimbabwe after being taken ill on a flight to Jamaica.
What other reasons are there? How
likely are you to suffer a fit with your
current physical condition?
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31. Ready, set, go: Pick a story from the newsfeed
1. Swiss lower house of parliament backs Gripen jets
2. China ditches pointless awards in latest anti-waste push
3. Six killed in two blasts near army sites in Egypt's Sinai
4. Iraq signs deal with BP to revive northern Kirkuk oilfield
5. Spanish Catalonia to press independence bid with human chain
6. Kenya's deputy president goes on trial at international court
7. U.S. Soccer Head Says FIFA Failed to Consider Qatari Weather
8. New York strip club dancers win 4-year fight for minimum wage
9. Humberto becomes first hurricane of 2013, no threat to land
10. Clint Eastwood's wife files for legal separation in California
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32. Difficulties with
Visualizations
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33. Visualisierung: Flüchtlingsströme
Flüchtlingsströme

34. census.gov: Net Migration Between California and Other States: 1955–1960 and 1995–2000, http://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/051/

35. North Japan
800 km
SAPPORO
400 km
SENDAI
TOKYO
400 km
OSAKA
800 km
OKINAWA
2000km
South Japan

36. North Japan
2011
800 km
SAPPORO
AOMORI
Shelter
Hotel
Relatives
Residence
Total
0
42
403
134
579
400 km
SENDAI
TOKYO
400 km
OSAKA
800 km
OKINAWA
2000km
South Japan

37. North Japan
2012
2011
800 km
SAPPORO
AOMORI
AOMORI
Shelter
Hotel
Relatives
Residence
Total
0
42
403
134
579
400 km
SENDAI
TOKYO
400 km
OSAKA
800 km
OKINAWA
2000km
South Japan
+13%
Shelter
Hotel
Relatives
Residence
Total
0
0
319
334
653

39. Visualisierung: Strahlendosis
Strahlendosis

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41. David McCandless: Radiation Dosage Chart
Randall Munroe: Radiation Dose Chart

42. Interactive Things: Sievert Visualization, http://fukushima.nzz.ch

44. Merci!
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