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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: We go inside the award-winning data journalism operation at The Straits Times

Not since Ross Perot’s famous TV presentations using cardboard charts have politicians used charts so much. This week, Philip Bump joins Scott and Simon to talk about it, and how AI will impact data journalism

Probably the most fun project our team gets to work on each year! It's Frightgeist time, an exploration fo the top trending Halloween costumes in 2025. Pro tip: have the volume turned up!

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How data storytelling has changed

New podcast: what is data journalism today? Data analysis is at an inflection point, with new technologies entering the field, and increasingly more practitioners working outside of journalism. This episode, Alberto Scott and myself reflect on how we got into data…

How Richard Scarry taught me everything I know about visual storytelling On the 60th anniversary of Busy Busy World, what we can all learn from a children’s illustrator My grandparents built a boat, and sailed around the world on it. Grandad had been a bricklayer,…

Our desire to be serious and be taken seriously sometimes gets in the way of something even more important. Scarry understood the power of using fun to explain things that are complicated. This is how we can learn from that today.

simonrogers.net/2025/09/01/h...

What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers: 9798217176984 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds—their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes, and dreams? In What We Ask Google, Simon Rogers explores insights from the world’s...

COMING SOON: my new book about how we search and what that says about us. It is about why I feel optimistic about who we are. Insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798252...

Take the WNBA Search Fan Quiz Which WNBA team’s fans are you most like?

Check out our latest interactive: find out which WNBA team you search like.

Props to Annanya Raghavan and the Polygraph team caitlyn ralph and Matt Daniels

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Check out our latest podcast episode, where we chat about the latest Outlier conference and what it says about where we are

New pod episode: Finding Ourselves in Historic Data “40 Acres and a Lie” tells the true story behind the Civil War–era “40 acres and a mule” program. It was the result of over two years of painstaking research by Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala. The project won a Sigma Award and a Philip Meyer Data Journalism Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. Alexia, April and Pratheek join Alberto, Scott and Simon to share their research process in detail. They explain how they used historical data to identify breaking news, and how genealogical tools helped them find living descendants of those impacted by the program.

NEW: in the latest episode of the Data Journalism Podcast, we chat with the award-winning creators of 40 Mules And A Lie about how to turn history into data

Datapocalypse! Are we losing our public data?

Listen to the latest episode >> Cheryl Phillips⁠ is Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University’s journalism program, and founder of ⁠Big Local News⁠, which empowers journalists with data – and has twice been on Pulitzer prize winning news…

Data+Love+why it matters in the age of AI One of my favourite data podcasts is Data+Love, hosted by the brilliant Zach Bowders. We chatted for the latest episode about why people should care about data, how to make it human and why it matters. Check it out!

Data+Love+why it matters in the age of AI

One of my favourite data podcasts is Data+Love, hosted by the brilliant Zach Bowders. We chatted for the latest episode about why people should care about data, how to make it human and why it matters. Check it out!

Great work by Spiegel, with Trends data partnership from Leslie Luenberger on our team

Hiding from a rainy walk

📣 New podcast alert! 📣 We chat with Chiqui Esteban⁠, Design & Art Director at the Washington Post Opinion section in the latest episode, with new co-host Scott Klein

this is exactly why San Francisco has an auxiliary high pressure water system, gravity fed reservoirs, and street cisterns, and salt water manifolds to pull in water from
the bay…

“independent of the domestic water supply, built solely for the purpose of firefighting”

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First day of teaching data journalism @medillschool.bsky.social today and we started with visualizing data using Lego

In art and literature, "criticism" doesn't mean "pointing out flaws." It's something bigger and more interesting than a referee calling fouls. I think we should have the same ambitions for data visualization criticism!

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

With today’s news about the jump in the number of homeless people, this @propublica interactive story released today is even more timely.

The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

I believe such technical work is key to achieving our mission — making data easier for everyone to access and use.

But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work.

If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate

See how every judge voted for the 100 best male footballers in 2024 This year 197 judges took part and here we give you the chance to see how every single point was awarded

What I know about football (soccer to our American friends) you could write on the back of a tiny stamp...

...but if it's your thing HERE is a list of every male player ever to have received a Guardian top 100 ranking...happy Xmas football fans ⚽️🎁!!

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

📣 It's the last #datajournalism podcast of the year and I got to chat with @albertocairo.com and @kleinmatic.bsky.social about 12 months of data, AI and elections.

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Small multiples chart from CHARTR showing Google Search Volume for 16 different social media companies over the past 20 years

Great set of charts, although I feel bad posting it on Bluesky (next year, my pretty!)
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🖥️Today's edition of our daily roundup on journalism features an expert in open-source AI, a discussion of the power of data visualisation and a case of AI slop in Oregon.

With @marinaadami.bsky.social @fdaudens.bsky.social @simonrogers.bsky.social @albertocairo.com @caithlinm.bsky.social and more

Google's Year in Search Explore the searches that shaped 2024, from Google Trends. #yearinsearch

Want to see how the world searched in 2024? Our latest #YearInSearch is out today:

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A brighter future for refugee women in London We’re raising funds for our vital work with refugee and migrant women, helping them to develop the skills and confidence to build fulfilling lives in London…

As a proud trustee at @salusburyworld.bsky.social
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David Spiegelhalter: The Art of Uncertainty New podcast episode details: David Speigelhalter⁠ is Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and author of new book ⁠The Art of Uncertainty⁠ We live …

📣 New podcast alert: @albertocairo.bsky.social and I interview David Spiegelhalter about uncertainty. Want to understand how to represent data in chaotic times? This is the epsode for you.

simonrogers.net/2024/12/04/d...

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Dataviz bingo card with squares such as "used a pie on the table as a visual aid" and "so you do computer stuff".

Ready for a holiday challenge that’s more fun than explaining your job? Grab our 📊 Data Viz Holiday Bingo card and see if you can spot all the classic family reactions to what you do for a living. Post your cards and maybe even win bragging rights at the dinner table!

@datavizsociety.bsky.social

love when I get to put on my data journalist hat 🤓