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Every aircrash this century visualised

Longing for the days we can return to zooting about the globe in our flying cigar cases? Maybe this will dampen your enthusiasm - Bavyajeet Singh and Vikrant Dewangan have put together a few charts showing just how frequent air crashes are and when - over the course of a flight - they have happen...

3 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

It was the salmon mousse. And the canapes. And the sausage rolls

Japanese broadcaster NHK has put together a little visual aid showing why large gatherings are a bad idea when there's coronavirus around: at a mock buffet, one diner has fluorescent paint squirted on his palm. During the meal a blacklight is turned on to show just where that paint has spread... ...

3 weeks ago

Spinning the colour wheel

Struggling to pick the right colours for your latest viz? The language of colours can be confusing for folks without a design background, but the colour wheel is more than a rainbow-like delight for changing RGB values. It's a tool for selecting the right tones to convey your meaning, and help re...

4 weeks ago

Finally, My Corona

130m litres of beer to get rid of? Challenge accepted

There's no let up to the anguish on South African Facebook and WhatsApp as middle-class pantries and wine racks run bare of booze, yet will the government listen to their plight? They will not. Prohibition remains in place, and as a result the brewery formerly known as SAB (now AB Inbev) says it ...

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4 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Explaining the Coronavirus chart to your kids (and parents)

You may think your logarithmic Corona-chart that starts at 100 infections makes perfect sense, but go show it to your mom and see how she interprets it. Or, send her this video from Vox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3Mlj3MQ_Q

Jason Norwood-Young

4 weeks ago

Don't Miss, Finally

When map fiction becomes on-the-ground fact

When cartographers aren't sneaking hidden pics into maps, they're making up fake place names in order to trap other cartographers who may plagiarise their work -- known as "paper towns". But in the case of one US paper town, Agloe, the little bit of cartographic crypto turned into a real place wh...

Jason Norwood-Young

4 weeks ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Deaths from “unnatural causes” in South Africa are a third lower than normal

The Financial Times has a great piece this morning updating its look at the impact of Covid-19 on national death rates. For most countries covered, it's pretty big. Look: But look at South Africa - the chart actually shows a decline in expected mortality rates for this time of year. It's not surp...

4 weeks ago

100 maps of Gauteng and more

The Gauteng Regional City Observatory (GCRO) is an unsung hero of South African data collection and analysis. Quietly, it gets on with their work, surveying, reporting and analysisng South Africa's economic heartlands. Occasionally, their work reaches the mainstream media (notably its identificat...

a month ago

Eat the rich

Enjoy scrolling? Enjoy feeling outraged? Enjoy solving the world's problems? Warm up that mousewheel and head on over to 1-pixel-wealth, which lets you scroll through Jeff Bezos' unimaginable wealth, with each 10 pixels worth $5 million. And once you've gotten through Bezos' $139 billion, you can...

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Run, South Africa, run!

It's Lockdown Lifts day (part one) here in sunny South Africa, where 50% of Naked Data is based. And while the stay-at-home restrictions don't change an awful lot for many people, they do bring the blessed relief of being able to walk or run for leisure in the great outdoors for the first time in...

a month ago

Book learnin', Don't Miss

Don’t be fooled: The journalist’s guide to foiling fake news

Craig Silverman has wrangled some of the industry's top fact-checkers and myth-busters to produce the latest version of the Verification Handbook For Disinformation and Media Manipulation, a veritable trove of methodologies, practices and examples to help the journalist separate fact from crap.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

The pain of merging datasets

It sounds so simple: combine various datasets to get a list of healthcare facilities in South Africa. Can't be that hard, right? Afrimapr went down this road, and has suffered so that we don't have to.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Google’s cyberstalking’s time has come

Yes, it is creepy that Google knows where you are, all the damn time. But measured on a country level, it changes from creepy to useful. Its Covid-19 Mobility Reports for each country is a fascinating look at how effective each country's various lockdown, social distancing or laissez faire approa...

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, Umbilical Ruminations

Microsoft’s open data play

Whether Microsoft's open data play is an honest attempt to reduce digital divides or a Trojan horse for its AI and Power BI remains to be seen.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Don't Miss, My Corona

Covid-19 – The Game

People of the Pandemic is a nifty Coronavirus explorable, but with a clever little twist - you play with (or against, depending on your perspective) 19 other real life people. It's a great way of seeing how the decisions you and those around you make affect the spread of a virus dramatically.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Hacking at Coronavirus

I'm unconvinced that hackathons will be quite the same without beer and pizza, but they continue through our various quarantines virtually nonetheless. Canadian hackers went on a marathon three-day marathon hackathon on 17, 18 and 19 April, Together vs Virus, and some emerged with impressive resu...

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Spicy beans, chill before use

Cold brew coffee used to be a thing, but hot grinding and icing your beans before putting them in the filter is a new one on us. For an extraordinarily deep look at these techniques, and some highly subjective data analysis about what their flavour enhancing values, check out Robert McKeon Aloe's...

a month ago

Get your data journalism course for free here

There's plenty of resources online for upstart cubs with their eyes on becoming a data-journo, but you're not going to find an introduction that's much better than this. It's the Knight Center's six week course featuring Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers, Debra Anderson, Duncan Clark, Jan Diehm, Minhaz...

a month ago

How Reuters is using AI for articles

Polis' JournalismAI has a nice interview with Viktoriia Samatova, the MD of the Applied Innovations Team at Reuters Technology, who is building crazy proof of concept machines that can write the news. Samatova's CV is incredibly impressive - her background is in finance and economics as well as m...

a month ago

What do people do all day

It's probably not the best time to be looking at US jobs data, given how much everything has changed on an historic scale in the last few weeks. But in the spirit of a) interesting dataviz and b) some context, Beehive's analysis of 20 years of stats and how the workplace is changing is fascinatin...

a month ago