visualizing news; make it work
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This presentation elaborates on the question what it takes for an effective cooperation between journalists, designers, programmers and data analysists when making information visualizationsTRANSCRIPT
VISUALIZING NEWS
MAKE IT WORK
G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s
FRONTPAGES INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS AUGUST 30
FRONTPAGES INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS AUGUST 30
AND ONLINE …
RQ
What are the
decisive factors
that make news
visualizations
work for the
different people
involved?
METHOD
Literature study
Expert interviews
Case studies
RESULTS
Individual• skills
Groups• mindset
Organization• structure
SKILLS
writing
designing
programming
data mining
MINDSET
frustrating hierarchy
no common language
lack of common ground
STRUCTURE
pace
linearity
distance
support
CONCLUSION
storyvisualtext
skillsmindset
structure
THANK YOU
G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the
Netherlands