بیایید با تیم هایی که اغلب در این وبلاگ می بینیم شروع کنیم: تیم ارتباطات، طراحان و سازندگان وب سایت.
A piece from this year I remember enjoying is Dicing an Onion the Mathematically Optimal Way by The Pudding. Interactive visualizations are always fun, and I appreciate being curious about mundane topics and communicating the findings in an engaging way.
Another one that stuck with me is Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised by The Guardian. The illustrations are so beautiful!
Jonathan
Website development lead
This data story by ZEIT finally gave me enough context to better understand why buying a home can feel so out of reach for people my age. I love it when a few well-designed charts alongside a well-written article make something in my mind click!
Lisa
Head of communications
Alvin Chang told my favorite data story of the year for The Pudding (again!): 30 minutes with a stranger. One of its most important points: “Researchers have repeatedly found that people don’t think they’ll enjoy interacting with strangers. But after the interaction, participants tend to say it was a positive experience.”
It’s storytelling at its best, moving back and forth between anecdotes and the bigger picture.
And like many of Alvin’s stories, this one doesn’t just inform, but provokes – and might even change our behavior. It reminded me of my own encounters with strangers and how much they brightened my day, and made me realize that I should try to initiate them more often myself.
One of my favorites this year appeared in our September Dispatch. The Straits Times’ team looked into the chaotic world of women’s clothing sizes. It’s a great example of taking a (frustrating and relatable) personal experience, gathering data, and using visualization to make sense of said experience within a wider context. Its brilliant storytelling, thoughtful design, interviews, and 3D printed figurines (!) elevated a simple idea to a rich and engaging analysis.
And of course, my colleagues’ Weekly Charts! They’re such a delightful mix of personal interests and beautiful (and ridiculously creative) Datawrapper visualizations. (You might want to sign up for our newsletter if you haven’t already. *wink wink*)
It’s hard to call my favourite visual article of the year ‘favourite’. It’s more the one I thought about most often, the one I often dug out to show others. It’s an article about the 104 women in Germany who were killed by their partners or ex-partners. This piece is the work of Elisabeth Raether, Annick Ehmann, Tamara Flemisch, and Dana Hajek, published by DIE ZEIT. The topic is so important!
The authors did a great job of digging into a subject with such limited available data. I appreciate how sensitively the authors dealt with the topic and the effort the research must have required. Above all, I’m touched that, amid all the statistics, the personal stories are not overlooked — none of the 104.
