NYT Stop, Question and Frisk

NYT Stop, Question and Frisk interactive

Click here to enjoy another fantastic data interactive by the NYT

New York City’s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as “stop, question and frisk,” which allows officers to stop someone based on a reasonable suspicion of crime. One expert has estimated New Yorkers are stopped at twice the national rate

Circles indicate the number of "stops" at each address or location in 2009 as reported by the NYPD

REAL data visualisation with meaning

Information caviar!

Guardian spreads the data

Guardian spreads the data

A comprehensive data report out in the UK today shows the state of our nation

Harriet Harman calls it an 'Inequality bible'

Over a double truck, the Guardian in print, and in their data blog, have created the space to visualise the data, and reported on by Tom Clark

You can also download the data from this link

Nice work!

Operation Panther's Claw

Infographics traditional style

Like the good old days of war explanations

The comment 'opener' in the Daily Telegraph today showed the how and the whereabouts of latest offensive in Afghanistan

Is it accurate?

We think so!

The interesting debate between 'data' based in infographics and those which recreate the uncertainty of news reporting on deadline

Its great to base everything on fact, which is now why we celebrate the modern phenomenon of data sheets and spreads of statistics

But we should not forget the great pleasure the reader(s) receive from illustrating a sequence or moment in time, however long or short, of an event so far away that there is no way on earth they could never, ever visualise

That is why we do it for them. It's part of our job description

Stef Bayley built most of this for the Sunday Telegraph, unfortunately editorial real estate was gloved in the opposing corner 

Luckily for the Daily, four days later, the story was still breaking news and I decided to run Stefan's research and visual labour in all of its glory

The infographic runs with a comment piece by Allan Mallinson, ex military, which is an interesting account of 'slogans' by Government and MoD. Both very different.

Gordon Brown has not yet labelled this front in Afghanistan as a 'war'

Yet it clearly is. To label its so would mean serious investment

But without the infographic, or the visual, one would never truly appreciate the huge scale of the operation in theatre

It is however, not based on fact or data, but first-hand impression

Is it right or wrong that we can be confident in not only delivering fact and figures, but also recreate and explore means and methods that show the news?

And to take our readers to a place that neither words nor photography can chart?

Just like Peter Sullivan, John Grimwade, Duncan Mill, Jaime Serra, Charles Blow, Juan Velasco and the boys from Bilbao?

Please leave comments and debate on this subject. I feel strongly that although reporting the fact is of huge importance, surely we can also excite and add our impression, as reporters and visual commentators of the news, that our view [as an infografista] counts!

Malofiej 17: NYT - Peter Sullivan/Best of show

The NYT and NYT.com shared the Peter Sullivan/Best of Show during the 17th Malofiej awards

The jury decided to unanimously award this printed and online coverage entitled 'The Ebb and flow movies: box office' which explains in detail the weekly box office receipt from all movies opened in the US during the last three decades - developed by Amanda Cox

Although, my first impressions were a little 'grey' I guess the 'curves of pleasure' and sheer ingenuity and audacity swung the jury

Which leads me to think that there are two clear distinctions in our world of infographics;

those which are rendered by the experience, limitations and knowledge via our brain

and those which are rendered by the experience, limitations and knowledge via developed data software

Trust me, neither is better or worse than the other - both are valid and exceptional ways to communicate

I guess the industry faced the same emotional debate between those who had trained to illustrate by hand, and those on the computer

Of course the latter is purely design to number crunch, and develop data-driven infography

But most importantly the biggest difference is in the language we use; 'developer' and 'data-driven' rather than 'artist' and 'illustrate'...

... indeed both allow the infografista to communicate their content and idea

But the word on the street is that some fear the death of their traditional trade; I don't thinks so - its just another branch of the infographics tree