Data as Art

Data as Art

There is something both arresting and appealing about this visualisation

Calming, and slow enough to understand the information

With thanks to Jeff Cambron who writes:

A new project with GE, the science of dynamic breaking (a key to GE's in-development hybrid diesel-electric trains) gets broken down via super slow motion video capture

Basically it is a simple illustration of the physics behind braking. The General Electric Company, have discovered that we can capture and store energy from a braking locomotive = dynamic braking

I don't know much about the product, nor the science, but the video is jolly impressive

Interesting

SND: Multimedia awards winners

SND: Multimedia and interactive awards winners of 2009

The Best of Multimedia Design winners were awarded at the 2009 Society for News Design annual workshop and exhibition in Buenos Aires on Sept. 24. The competition recognizes skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new-media design with quarterly and annual awards

Deservedly so, as their work is completely top-notch, 18 out of 32 of gongs were given to the nyt.com

That is 56.25 per cent


Here are the deserved awards:


Awards of Excellence

Anticipating Obama’s Inauguration on a City Block in Washington • nytimes.com

Basketball Database • indystar.com

Cape Fear To Down Here • Carolinaphotojournalism.org

Common Ground • mediastorm.org

Crossing the Line: Abuse in Hawaii Homes • honoluluadvertiser.com

Electoral Explorer • nytimes.com

I Hope So Too • nytimes.com

Immigration Explorer • nytimes.com

The Last Minutes of Flight 3407 • nytimes.com

How Lezak Won Gold in the 4×100-Meter Relay • nytimes.com

Madison Budget Game • madison.com

A Map of Olympic Medals • nytimes.com

The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama • ap.org

Sacred Ground: The Building of the Pentagon Memorial • washingtonpost.com

U.S. Hospital Death Rates • usatoday.com

Bronze Award

A Day’s Work, Four Days’ Pay • nytimes.com

Election Results 2008 • nytimes.com

Failed Prostate Procedures at the Philadelphia V.A. • nytimes.com

Intended Consequences • mediastorm.org

Jackson’s Billboard Rankings Over Time • nytimes.com

Murder: New York City • nytimes.com

New York Plane Crash • boston.com

Pogue-O-Matic Product Finder • nytimes.com

War Without Borders: Fueling Mexico’s Drug Trade • nytimes.com

Silver Award

Andaman Rising • carolinaphotojournalism.org

Hurricane Tracker • msnbc.com

Indy 500 Car Tracker • indystar.com

One in 8 Million • nytimes.com

Ted Kennedy • boston.com

Tracking US Airways Flight 1549 • nytimes.com

Gold Award

Choosing a President • nytimes.com

You Finish, You Win • nytimes.com

The nyt.com also claimed the Judges Special Recognition

Brilliant and congrats to all winners

Pakistan: drone strikes

Pakistan: drone strike double

Ex-Telegraph infographic genius Ciaran Hughes has produced this excellent flash interactive for Channel 4 tv network, his new office since leaving later this year

In the last 12 months there have been at least 113 attacks by secret US drones in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan region.

It is double the number of strikes in 2009, which itself saw a dramatic spike, bringing the total number of attacks under President Obama to an estimated figure of 166. That marks an increase of nearly 300 per cent compared with the last four years of the Bush presidency

Quite a tasty dish me thinks

Mapping, histogram and data viz

Its got the lot in such a small space

Speaking of iPad's and flash, is there any updates on when we can view flash-based interactives on the apple tablet..?

If not, then Flash to some extent is surely redundo

I hope this Apple/Adobe situation is remedied

F1 glamor from the Middle East

F1 glamor from the Middle East

Again, the most fantastic and innovative work coming from Luis Chumpitaz and his team

Amazing detail, over many spreads in an entire print-run devoted to the coverage of Formula One, in graphic form

A huge project similar to the award-winning Olympic project poster set design by the very same man

Beautiful and well delivered

Wonderful!

Merry Christmas

NYT maps every city and every block

NYT maps every city and every block in the United States

A wonderful interactive, as always, from the New York Times

Based on samples taken from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey during 2005 and 2009, this interactive enables us to understand the distribution breakdown of racial and ethnic groups across the country

Looking at the data viz in the map of Manhattan, check out the ethnic divide along East 97th Street

Also impressive, although not surprising is the yellow glow of Miami

Interesting facts from the editorial:

Nine jurisdictions had populations in which more than one-third of their residents were foreign-born. These included three counties in California (Los Angeles, Santa Clara and San Francisco), two county equivalents in Alaska (Aleutians East Borough and Aleutians West Census Area) and two counties in New York (Kings and Queens)

There were 292 counties with populations that were less than 1 percent foreign-born, including 34 counties in Kentucky, 27 in West Virginia, 26 in Missouri and 21 in Mississippi

Interactive caviar indeed!

Infographic premonition

Kevin Nolan v Liverpool

Infographic premonition from Alan Smith

Smith, the author of the column in the Telegraph Sport section, writes;

"Pardew must ensure proper Carroll service. Rather than try to beat his full-back, Barton [Joey] has made a habit this season of swinging in crosses from anything up to 30 yards out. And if the delivery is right this afternoon, Carroll will fancy his chances of beating Skrtel or Kyrgiakos in the air (top graphic). After that, as always, it's a question of who reaches the knock-down first"

The preview graphic shows the cross from Barton to Carroll, who heads the ball down for Nolan to go on and stick the ball in the net

I've also (hopefully) attached a video of the goal

If it does not play, please watch it here

A stroke of luck, premonition or whatever

New Zealand mine explosion

New Zealand mine explosion at Pike River

We've cobbled together this infographic on the recently redesigned Telegraph website, which shows where the mine is, and where the access tunnel meets the "coal seam"

Basic graphic

But adds to the reporting

Chile miners [6]

Chile miners infographic from the Times

I completely forgot to pass this on

Busy times

Indeed a busy time at The Times

This was printed the day of the rescue

Read it, paw over it. It had everything

I don't often like the "kitchen sink" approach to graphics, but I have to admit that I really did like

Above all - it feels like the team at the Times had fun;

With the research

With the planning

With the drawing

With the design

Hats off!

Thanks to Matt Swift!

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine [5]

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – update from Channel4

Looking forward to seeing more animator Ian Watkins

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine [4]

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – excellent animation work from Channel4

Click here to see their TV animation

Thanks to Ciaran Hughes

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine [3]

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – online at the Telegraph

Conrad Quilty-Harper, Data Reporter for Telegraph.co.uk has been updating the content online, and building the graphics

Click here to view the full graphic

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine [2]

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine – more amazing interactives

Great work at the BBC

Click here to see the wonderful animated infographics that show everything you need to know

Really well rendered, they remind me of the great work that came out of el Pais and el Mundo of Spain in late nineties and the turn of the millennium

I would love to see what Rafa Hohr is up to with the Sunday Times, but a subscription wall stands between my curiosity and no doubt bloody good work...

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine

Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine: latest infographics from Sunday newspapers

The Independent on Sunday eschewed the trend for "rock textures" to give a stylised guide to the rescue. Informative, and designed to work with the page, the "yellow brick road" approach offers quite a lot of bite-sized information in a small space. Also important to note the reappearance of Glenn Swan's byline in the press.

Good luck Glenn

Second, Fleet Street's behemoth the Sunday Times takes perspective of the "journey to the surface". Its great. Rigorous and nicely rendered with very 'agreeable' illustrative details

Last, the Sunday Telegraph went 'balls-out' with information and attention to the details. It very much feels like a graphic you want to spent some time with. Even better with a pint on a lazy Sunday afternoon. This example also marks the return of Richard Burgess to the Telegraph group

It would be great to see examples from Spain, Latin America etc...

Please forward on

Globe and Mail goes green

Globe and Mail goes green

The Globe And Mail finally unveiled it's new redesign on Friday

Moving away from broadsheet (pic1) to a slightly larger than Berliner format (pic2), The Globe And Mail is now full-colour throughout and uses glossy paper for certain areas of the paper

The new KBA Commander CT presses provide unparalleled colour and registration quality coupled with an extremely fast output. The Globe And Mail prints from six printing plants spread across Canada

Saturday's issue included a fantastic double truck graphic (pic3) by Ninian Carter who is returning to the UK, and Tonia Cowan, which explains the new printing processes and green initiatives the Globe is striving to implement

It is understood that Carter will continue to work for the Globe and Mail

Lifetime achievement award: Javier Errea

Lifetime achievement award: Javier Errea

Here is a transcript from the SND website

Javier has had an incredibly broad impact in our industry. It’s an impressive list. So let’s get to it!

First, there’s the design work he’s done with Innovation International Media Consulting Group and his own company, Errea Comunicación. His team, based in Pamplona, Spain, specializes in newspaper design, editorial, graphic and web design, and journalism consulting in general. His high impact, intelligent work can be seen in publications across Europe, South America and the Middle East. Smart, innovative solutions, with journalistic flair, his work reflects the core values of everything this organization sets out to promote.

And he has contributed deeply and consistently to SND for a decade. He organizes the Malofiej conference – the world’s premier information graphics event. He organizes the ñh event – which assembles great speakers and honors the best of news design in Spain and Portugal. He also produces a book for that every year. And… he is the president of SND/E. For years, he has organized trips to the annual conferences for groups of Spanish journalists.

This year, Javier was instrumental in helping organize the first ever SND events in Milan and Rome. The popular seminars brought in 200 people.

And somehow, in amongst all this, he teaches a class in visual journalism at the University of Navarra.

Now I’d like to say something about Javier from the perspective of an infographic enthusiast. Through the Malofiej Awards and conference, Javier has dramatically raised the standards for information graphics throughout the world. When he took over the awards 10 years ago, they were basically dead on their feet. The absence of an awards book for three years had led to a precipitous drop in enthusiasm for the whole affair. But Javier systematically fixed the problems. He brought his intelligence and his style into the event. The change was remarkable. A beautifully designed annual, a revived conference with new ideas. He saved Malofiej. It is that simple. All infographics people should thank him from their hearts. And, believe me, we do.

No one could do this without a real passion for explanation through images. When you talk to Javier. you know right away that here is a person who is completely committed to the craft. He will tell you that although we are in a difficult transitional period, we are also in an age of unprecedented information, and visual-storytelling has more potential than ever. It’s a message of optimism, And one we can all carry with us from Denver, and into 2011.

Creative and innovative, modest and unassuming, welcoming and supportive. A true friend to SND, and an inspiration to us all.

For all these reasons, we honor Javier Errea with the SND’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ladies and gentlemen, Javier Errea!

Truly, truly well deserved. A friend and colleague. Lets raise a glass

Telegraph for iPad

Enjoy the best of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph with our new iPad app

The app brings you the editors' selections from our award winning daily newspaper – from the sharpest political reporting to in-depth sports analysis and must-read columnists

The best includes UK news, World news, Sport, Business, Comment, Features and Analysis and award winning cartoonist of the year, Matt

Pope's visit interactives

Pope's visit to the UK

Pope Benedict XVI will visit the UK this week, during which he will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, putting him on the Path to sainthood

Two very different interactives from Telegraph.co.uk and the Guardian

Our insightful Telegraph offerings, focus on history of Catholicism and diocese data, where as the Guardian has also excellent background information on Newman and Benedict XVI

Both worthy of perusal and obviously heavily researched

The Catholic Herald and thepaplvisit sites also offer more information

Deadly Genomes

Deadly Genomes and Virus around the world

The chart shows the genomes of a variety of bacteria and virus that cause disease among us

Each coloured line represents the genome of the bacterium or virus. The size of the genome and percentage of the guanine or cytosine (both are paired with in the double-stranded DNA) are also noted. This is labeled as GC content

This great and fascinating project by Martin Krzywinski, Ian Bosdet and Cydney Nielsen of Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, shows structure, mortality and global deaths, by genome

Jonathan Corum of 13pt | Informational Design is behind the layout and typography

Visually it is both fascinating and interesting

Thanks to Mark Oliver of the Daily Telegraph

Fast quality visual digital reporting

The fantastic Mr Esteban

Juan Antonio Giner of Innovation has produced a worthy homage to Chiqui Esteban who leads the New Visual Naratives department of lainformacion.com in Madrid

His team: he, Carlos Gamez and Sarah Potts

Yes

3! (three)

They use Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4d, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Premiere and Click2Map for Google Maps

JAG comments

Chiqui and Carlos are fast like the best writers of the best newswire services

They are quick, but accurate, and always focus on “the news behind the news” trying to explain, to find out, discover new angles and delivering not just facts but graphic ideas and fast quality journalism

This is a 24/7 full time team and they are on permanent deadline mood

Chiqui and Carlos have limited resources but unlimited creativity, and shows what you can do when you have real journalists

Chique works with Mario Tascon, the Director

I remember many years ago at Malofiej, in the late 90's, Mario announced that in 10 years infographics would be dead

A huge gasp and grumble from the floor

Many said that he was mad, insane

Well, the truth is, that as we have seen with work from the NYT and Chiqui's work with lainformacion.com, THESE are not infographics, not TV, not one dimensional print, not audio

But the future of news reporting

Innovative

Creative

Information to and for the people

The new journalism!

Bee hive of activity

A bee hive of activity of world wide flights in 24 hrs

As the light of day moves across from east to west, you can see evening air traffic leaving the United States overnight to arrive in UK and Europe in the morning

As nightfall spreads east, see the flow change, leaving Europe to arrive in America

How many people are in the sky at any given moment?

Fascinating