Britain's Boom to Bust

Britain's Boom to Bust

Ed Conway, the Telegraph's economics editor, talks us through Britain's boom and bust using eight key graphs – savings, GDP the FTSE and unemployment to name but a few

These graphs, with the aid of audio narrative, give key insight to the UK economy

Importantly, Conway talks to the graphs

The data

The visual facts

Without these key visual facts, it would be hard for the viewer/reader/listener to follow and be able to quantify the report

David Kinross built this excellent interactive

I think it is the first time at Telegraph.co.uk we have used such AS scripting to combine audio and information graphics to show and explain news and comment

But designed in a crisp, intellectual way

Minimal design

Maximum information

Information caviar

UPDATE
David Kinross has supplied some hot technical background for the coding involved in producing the interactive... many thanks David


Stuff used in the code

Movement

All Tweens are done using open source Tweenlite library.

Tweenlite

http://www.greensock.com/tweenlite/

Sound

Build the MP3 player using these 3 native AS3 classes

Sound Transform

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/SoundTransform.html

Sound Channel

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/SoundChannel.html

Sound

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/Sound.html

MS excel to XML conversion

The XML feeds which the flash file runs off where generated using PC freeware 'toXML'

toXML
http://www.blogsdna.com/5470/convert-excel-to-xml-files-with-toxml.htm

FTSE 350 executive pay

FTSE 350 executive pay interactive

Executive pay is more important as ever as the economy struggles to emerge from the recession

David Kinross has developed this interactive flash guide with Richard Blackden to track which of the 50-best paid execs from the FTSE 350 companies enjoy the highest salaries and the biggest cash bonuses

You can also click to see how share prices of the companies they work for have performed

Coding caviar!

History of the House of Commons

History of the House of Commons

This House of Commons timeline shows the political make-up of Parliament from 1885

The interactive by David Kinross for the Telegraph's General Election coverage is a fantastic history lesson and archive for researchers, teachers and students

Enjoy this interactive caviar

Climate change refugees

The world's first climate change refugees

They are not please with their new-found notoriety, but the inhabitants of the Carteret Islands, after their 300 year history, will be uprooted and evacuated from their homes

The cause: rising sea levels

Where the once white beaches made the island a secret idyll, the highest point now only stands 5ft above sea level

An interactive, by scrolling down the home page by David Kinross, shows this perfectly

The 'Tulin' – people who come from the ocean – and interviewed by the Daily Telegraph, can be seen and heard here on Telegraph.co.uk

Lets hope the world leaders at the summit in Copenhagen can sort their squabbles and deliver

EU interactive

Eurostats are go

Following the Telegraph EU series I mentioned earlier David Kinross has developed our online data monster

All countries are clickable and offer comparisons with various valuable data

A visual database or sorts

Check it out and fill your boots

Swine flu

A timely guide

Its getting serious this SIV, so let us add clarity and calm things slightly

The ill are getting no help from their local surgeries, and are being told to stay away from GP's practice. No comfort to those who are panic stricken and read headline news

What will Government figures show?

Andrew Blenkinsop and David Kinross and produced this clean and simple interactive for Telegraph.co.uk when the original outbreak consumed the world's media

I'm still rather chuffed with it, it does the job and informs

British Dead in Afghanistan

Not to sure what's happened, but this text disappeared

But this nice interactive by David Kinross gives a memorial of sorts to our troops killed in action, which now stands at 186, in Afghanistan

After scrolling down the page, it can be found here on Telegraph.co.uk