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Swing low swingometer

Swing low swingometer for the General Election

I forgot to mention this while fighting fires and responding to the governments call of the election

Although cliched, this was an excellent graphic by Stefan Bayley at the Telegraph

It clearly shows what David Cameron and the Conservatives need to do in their uphill task of winning an increasingly-unlikely election victory

Great stuff

[Winter Olympics] BOBSLEIGH infographic

Winter Olympics: Bobsleigh infographic

The first in a series of graphics to be published in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph

Researched and produced by Stefan Bayley, it shows course, the sled and the all important start

Amazingly, as you can see in the example, 'that prior racing shoes, which have small spikes on the soles, wire brushes were used to aid grip on the ice...'

The blog

Belated scribe

Its been a while since I've had the chance to write, but times have been busy

We've been producing some nice work lately, so I thought why not show and tell

One of the picks of the crop was this, almost, full-page graphic for the Sport section, which was also placed inside the launch issue of the redesigned 'Weekly Telegraph' and now entitled 'The Telegraph' for overseas readers

Interesting that our infographics seems to have a new lease of life with the compact size, compared to the Broadsheet mothership

This example which shows how Wimbledon's Centre Court roof worked and when

The fun element of the project was interviewing the architectural firm who designed the roof

And of course nice to be able to give 'a jolly good show' as we see in the UK

Air accident [3]

Today's print infographics

They do indeed shed some light on this story

These breaking news examples of simplicity and clarity

The Guardian, example 4, is a solid, clear narrative explaining where flight AF447 departed, where it was supposed to arrive, and located where contact was lost with the Airbus

The Telegraph, example 1, shows other details, such as the nationality breakdown of those on the flight, craft details and route information in a very 'graphic' manner, lively and interesting

Although I doubt whether the Airbus landed or that contact was lost over Africa

As yet, nothing has 'rocked my boat', although I have not seen other examples yet, but please, if you come across something interesting, please send them to me

MPs expenses: Independent on Sunday

Here she goes... here she goes again!

Cath Levett rocks!

Smashing graphic in the Independent on Sunday at the weekend

Aggregating all of the news from the Telegraph from the past nine days (maths right me thinks)

But taking things further, where most print media would never dare go

This is great journalism

Modern

Fresh

Content based

It has a headline, and an intro, visual driven with text narrative. But its not a graphic

Crikey. New journalism!

Publish the news and raise hell!

Justice at last

Shahid Malik has stepped down as Justice Minister following the Telegraph's revelations over his expense claims

Since being elected in 2005, Malik has claimed the maximum amount allowable for a second home, amounting to £66,827 over three years

Bloody hell. And this from MPs, who launched the 'benefit fraud' campaign earlier this month

How ironic! Or moronic, however which way you see it

A single mother, claiming benefit, who irons clothes for undeclared cash is small beer compared to the 'second home' scams for which the UK tax payer, for years, has supplemented

It is a complete and utter outrage, as today The Council of Mortgage Lenders announce that 'Repossessions have risen by 50pc' year on year

But the MPs expenses stories are good for selling newspapers, and driving traffic online

Innovation in newspapers director, Juan Antonio Giner comments on his great blog:

It’s like a slow motion daily torture.

And if you subscribe to the Telegraph “alerts” you will the first to know about the next discovery.

Yesterday my local press agent in S[t]. Davids was calling to the Telegraph distribution center asking for extra copies.

Today I went around 11 am to buy the paper and I got the last copy.

So, the saga continues.

And the paper is a daily sold out.

The Telegraph is telling us a superb lesson in order to cope with any newspaper crisis:

Exclusive news and stories always sell.

And The Daily Telegraph has plenty of them.

Readers love them.

Not the crooks.

So again and again:

Publish the news and raise hell!

 

Right to reply

The plain truth

After publishing MPs claims for the past six days, the Telegraph offered MPs the 'right to reply' to allegations of ethical and moral abuse of the 'Additional Costs Allowance' system

Above is Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, speaking out for honest MPs who claim little

Only four MPs have exercised their right to reply at the Telegraph TV video booth, although all 646 MPs have been contacted

Which would indicate that they have something to hide, or out of embarrassment, little to say

Tax payers loss, MPs gain

MPs under pressure, again!

Tonight the Daily Telegraph revealed the full extent to which MPs will go to furnish their lavish life styles

Benedict Brogan, and an incredible team effort by Telegraph reporters, have uncovered what members of Parliament hoped would never see the light of day

The most widespread of abuses, comes under the 'Additional Costs Allowance', which reimburses MPs for the cost of running a second home, either in their constituency or in London, to be able to attend Westminster

Its all going to come out in the wash

Blimey, you couldn't make it up!

Swine flu: UK press [3]

And there we have it. Day 4

Firstly, lets start with the Times. What the hell (pic 3)? Is anyone supposed to read this? Insane. The Times have produced the greatest of infographics over the past year or so, but this? It's a bio hazard symbol, over a globe, with a load of zero's around it. What kind of editorial decision is this?

Yesterday's heroes, the Independent (pic 1), have finally followed the trend and gone global. Following the hysterical trend of reporting the 'suspected cases', they show where and by what quantity the countries in the spotlight are harbouring their illnesses

The Guardian (pics 4+5) went nuts, over the centre spread, showing the same thing. It feels great. But do we really learn anything new that we don't already know. Similar to the Independent. The global issue was yesterday.

We need to go local. Push the news agenda with infographics. Data maps only get you so far. Why not explain something different? Data is everywhere, on the radio, on TV, on the Internet and all over our newspapers.

So why tell people what they already knew yesterday. OK. This is the life of the printed news. Always playing catch-up. But we should be trying to explain much more...

At the Telegraph (pic 2), not that we are right or wrong, but we decided to develop a different agenda. I had a chat with the online director, who said that users (traffic from Telegraph.co.uk) were not interested in how many cases where around the world, but how it directly involved them.

Basically, what and how the virus was spread, and what happens to the body. So there you are. Our graphic in the Telegraph yesterday. A radically different approach to what the press has covered, but what our readers wanted and needed to know!

Swine flu: UK press

Ha ha the swine flu

Bloody hell what a fuss. But great media fodder

These examples were from Monday for Tuesday editions

Sorry - these are the only examples I have

The Guardian produced their classic map with data-driven circles

I must admit that I wanted to do something similar

Indeed I had some 'magic' working, but a senior editor had his doubts

And in a way I slightly agree

If we are all looking at the spread of the disease, then the 'circular method of present the spread is misleading' he said

Great as the Guardian graphic is, does it indicate that the 'suspected' circle has directly contaminated the countries that it covers?

I had not wanted to take this into consideration, because as an example of such, and as the production looks so wonderful, the editor had a major point - that this technique is flawed in this example

I guess, the fall out is, that it is OK to produce the circular data graphics as data graphics, but to overlay over a map can confuse things somewhat

Certainly over a map of the world, which covers millions of miles

It would most certainly work over a localised area map

We at the Telegraph tried too cover to much, I think

The information over the map, which was updated overnight, maybe became a little on the side of 'where do I look first'

Overall I think the desire was fine, we managed to incorporate a timeline of the swine flu, and hint at possible causes. Which added that element 'unintended learning'

My winner was the first infographic, which shows, in a headline manner, which companies were 'winner and losers' from the Mexican disaster

  

UK Budget [1]

On Wednesday, the Chancellor delivered his forecast for the economy

Here are some images from my office, the Telegraph

Infographic examples

I can't remember how many graphics we produced for our Budget coverage, but at a guess 20+

It was a busy day, explaining many points, and the new financial measures means for our readers

In conference, editors plan what is what and what goes where, right of centre

I wanted to capture the moment

Crikey – what a day

But worth it all the same

Are infographics over-designed?

Well its an interesting thought

My matey at the Telegraph, Ciaran Hughes thinks so. Is he right? 

Does the power of great illustration and rendering get lost in the quagmire of leading, kerning and baseline-grid alignment?

Maybe its a very valid point. 

Does illustration mean anything? 

Do we prefer to design the news display rather than render the reason?

Do infografistas feel inferior to designers?

Do designers feel inferior to infografistas because they deal with the content?

Should we be meeting in the middle, i.e 'the content'

We've had great fun at the Telegraph the past week, working with Tim Shearing who designs the news section. With the 'Tomlinson' packackage, and the recent 'terror raids' we have produced some interesting editorial - mixing the words, the photography and the infographics to produce editorial harmonics

I hope to get these online soon

Italian earthquake

Sketching the disaster

Awful I know, but we infographic journalists must always visualise the news agenda, WHATEVER it is

Sometime tricky, involving complex levels of understanding, before we even start to think about the execution of the finished article

Here are a few examples I'd like to share

Sometimes these are more interesting than the computer rendering

I'd like to see more sketches: please send to igraphics blogger

Telegraph F1 interactive

Click here for our F1 interactive at Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/5053749/Interactive-Formula-One-car-guide.html

On the way back from Pamplona, I noticed that El Pais had infographical coverage

Very good

The season has started, with much controversy

Here is our latest offering, which followed our print infographic last week

Are there any other examples from around the globe?