How OkCupid is bolstering data journalism Digital companies discover patterns in usage October 1, 2014 By Tanveer Ali
The good and bad of election prediction data September 19, 2014 By Tanveer Ali FiveThirtyEight, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post each have a unique take on what Nov. 4 will bring
Visualizing the Ebola outbreak September 11, 2014 By Tanveer Ali Despite setbacks, The Ebola Report and Frontline use numbers to put the disease into perspective
Defense Department data still murky September 5, 2014 By Tanveer Ali The best and worst of this week’s data journalism
Earthquake ‘data’ doesn’t add up August 29, 2014 By Tanveer Ali Many online news outlets reposted a chart that didn’t really show readers anything new
Vox fails on journo arrests, the LAT does a great investigation of police misreporting, and The Verge illuminates net neutrality commenters August 14, 2014 By Tanveer Ali The best and the worst of recent works of data journalism
Data reveals who isn’t talking about terrorism August 8, 2014 By Tanveer Ali This week’s Data Darts and Laurels
Local news outlets are joining the data journalism bandwagon August 7, 2014 By Tanveer Ali Available resources don’t always match the desire to analyze regional issues
The best and worst of this week’s data journalism July 18, 2014 By Tanveer Ali A cool side project tracking taxi rides, and a quest to find the bowling center of the country
How reporters used data covering the World Cup July 11, 2014 By Tanveer Ali Some pieces were revealing; others threw out numbers without saying anything
This week’s data journalism wins and fails July 3, 2014 By Tanveer Ali Darts to WSJ and Slate; laurels to Medium, NYT, and CIR
Q&A with Conrad Quilty-Harper, Ampp3d data journalist May 5, 2014 By Edirin Oputu The British site Ampp3d specializes in data journalism with a tabloid twist
The pitfalls of data journalism March 21, 2014 By Tanveer Ali FiveThirtyEight won’t have broad appeal without narrative
Less is more with mobile visualizations May 15, 2013 By Barrett Sheridan As readers shift to tablets and smartphones, interactive newsrooms need to re-focus on the basics
Crowdsourcing done right April 29, 2013 By Katie Akagi and Stephanie Linning Crowdsourced journalism showed its limits during the Boston bombing, but that doesn’t mean it lacks value
Connecting China, visually April 15, 2013 By Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang Reporters help tell Chinese political stories in an interactive way