Audience & Social
How South Asian women are using Instagram to amplify their voices
Anushka Suharu speaks to the founders of Pardesi, Boss Betis and British Bindi about how South Asian women are using Instagram to amplify their voices
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Data
Cath Levett: The Guardian Head of Graphics
Visualising your story is a key aspect of a lot of data journalism. While there are stories that don’t require a visualisation, be it a simple or complex, many more do and getting that right is key for readers and journalists. I caught up with Cath Levett, Head of
Audience & Social
Sociotope brings your online identity to life
While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool: Sociotope, a social media experiment which takes the data people leave behind in social networks and turns it into an interactive data visualisation. The free-to-use web app works with Twitter, Facebook and
Data
Interview with data visualiser Ri Liu
We speak to Ri Liu about the importance of design in telling interactive stories.
Data
Word clouds: the bane of James' existence
I know James Ball hates word clouds more than anything else on earth (besides the City computers, maybe), but in the US media, a story has come up that has actually taken the spotlight off of the Boston bombings. This is a story for the ages, and, frankly, I can