What is data journalism and what does it take to produce a data-driven story? Learn more from this short presentation I originally used at the week-long journalism project "Diversity Voices" in Budapest, 2015.
Two years ago when we first thought about Infogram Ambassador Network - our corporate responsibility program, we thought it is not possible. Now we see more and more fast growing social enterprises emerging. Check out my presentation about the topic I shared at a meetup on March 14th, 2016.
Velodati ir mūsu pirmais datu projekts – kucēns par kuru esam lepni un negrasāmies slīcināt. Tieši otrādi. Pēc sarunām ar velokopienas pārstāvjiem sapratām, cik nozīmīgi, cenšoties panākt pārmaiņas, ir dati, jeb dokumentētas liecības par to, kā braucam pa Rīgas ielām. Tie vairs nav pāris aktīvu velobraucēju iespaidi. Tie ir rīdzenieki, kas ceļā no mājām uz darbu izvēlas videi draudzīgo velosipēdu nevis auto. Augstāk esošā karte attēlo viņu “riepu nospiedumu intensitāti”, tā iezīmējot maršrutus, kur veloceļi un velojoslas ir visnepieciešamākās. Intensitātes karti saliekot ar esošo un topošo veloceļu tīklu, iegūstam arī secinājumus par to, kuri veloceļi dažos posmos ir izrādījušies lieki vai neloģiski izvietoti. Vismaz šobrīd. Rīga aug, attīstās un kopā ar to arī velovide.
Šī prezentācija rada priekštatu par mūsu izmantotajiem rīkiem un metodēm.
What is data journalism and what does it take to produce a data-driven story? Learn more from this short presentation I originally used at the week-long journalism project "Diversity Voices" in Budapest, 2015.
Two years ago when we first thought about Infogram Ambassador Network - our corporate responsibility program, we thought it is not possible. Now we see more and more fast growing social enterprises emerging. Check out my presentation about the topic I shared at a meetup on March 14th, 2016.
Velodati ir mūsu pirmais datu projekts – kucēns par kuru esam lepni un negrasāmies slīcināt. Tieši otrādi. Pēc sarunām ar velokopienas pārstāvjiem sapratām, cik nozīmīgi, cenšoties panākt pārmaiņas, ir dati, jeb dokumentētas liecības par to, kā braucam pa Rīgas ielām. Tie vairs nav pāris aktīvu velobraucēju iespaidi. Tie ir rīdzenieki, kas ceļā no mājām uz darbu izvēlas videi draudzīgo velosipēdu nevis auto. Augstāk esošā karte attēlo viņu “riepu nospiedumu intensitāti”, tā iezīmējot maršrutus, kur veloceļi un velojoslas ir visnepieciešamākās. Intensitātes karti saliekot ar esošo un topošo veloceļu tīklu, iegūstam arī secinājumus par to, kuri veloceļi dažos posmos ir izrādījušies lieki vai neloģiski izvietoti. Vismaz šobrīd. Rīga aug, attīstās un kopā ar to arī velovide.
Šī prezentācija rada priekštatu par mūsu izmantotajiem rīkiem un metodēm.
The history of pictorial chart goes hand in hand with evolution of humanity. The “graphic narrative”, as Willard Cope Brinton calls it in his book “Graphic Presentation” (1939) was there since the Stone Age. Ideographic drawings, pictograms, figurative symbols, pictographic charts and hieroglyphs all serve to tell stories in universal graphical language. The idea of universal language of pictorials was best developed by an Austrian social scientist Otto Neurath and a German designer Gerd Arntz in late 1920'. At the time Neurath had developed a method to communicate complex information on society, economy and politics in simple images and he needed designer who could make elementary signs, pictograms that could summarize a subject at a glance. Arntz was socially inspired and politically committed artist who depicted the life of workers and the class struggle in abstracted figures on woodcuts. Both were the perfect fit to develop an ISOTYPE (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) - a set of 4000 pictograms that tell it all.
Human brain is wired to understand stories. It's hard for us to make sense of unstructured data or big tables. This slide deck provides blue print for creating relevant and engaging data-driven story or an infographic that convinces rationally, touches emotionally and starts conversations.
The history of pictorial chart goes hand in hand with evolution of humanity. The “graphic narrative”, as Willard Cope Brinton calls it in his book “Graphic Presentation” (1939) was there since the Stone Age. Ideographic drawings, pictograms, figurative symbols, pictographic charts and hieroglyphs all serve to tell stories in universal graphical language. The idea of universal language of pictorials was best developed by an Austrian social scientist Otto Neurath and a German designer Gerd Arntz in late 1920'. At the time Neurath had developed a method to communicate complex information on society, economy and politics in simple images and he needed designer who could make elementary signs, pictograms that could summarize a subject at a glance. Arntz was socially inspired and politically committed artist who depicted the life of workers and the class struggle in abstracted figures on woodcuts. Both were the perfect fit to develop an ISOTYPE (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) - a set of 4000 pictograms that tell it all.
Human brain is wired to understand stories. It's hard for us to make sense of unstructured data or big tables. This slide deck provides blue print for creating relevant and engaging data-driven story or an infographic that convinces rationally, touches emotionally and starts conversations.
