Alice Corona

The piece reminded me of the activist work I do with OCIO and Inside Airbnb on housing accessibility, STR and corporate landlords, as we often have used similar phrases like "5% of host manage 30% of Airbnb listings and 34% of the revenue", to accompany network vizs which indeed look like octopi.

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In another room, distant yet conceptually connected by this reflection on power, sat my favorite piece: a card with an etched octopus whose tentacles enclose London, framed by the text "12 Landlords 'own'(?) London, taking £20,000,000 a year[...]The Land Octopus Sucks the Lifeblood of the People."

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There was a neat, minimalist drawing that immediately caught my attention. Upon closer scrutiny, I was shocked as the diagram was captioned "Bombing plan for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) by Robert A. Lewis", the co-pilot of the Enola Gay who dropped the Bomb

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I walked through the historical data visualizations as if through an implicit essay on how (visual forms of) data are inevitably tied to dynamics of power: the practice is not neutral, but each piece is deeply embedded with the context, motivations for coming into existence & politics of its author

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Diagrams The strength of the diagram is in its apparent neutrality. Often stripped of ornament, scale, and context, diagrams imply knowledge without the burden of explanation. Their authority comes from arrang...

Last weekend, I visited "Diagrams" in Venice, curated by OMA. What I appreciated most was its open-endedness, which allowed my mind to create connections and aha-moments beyond those more linearly suggested by the organization of the space or the brief captions.
www.oma.com/projects/dia...

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#ijf data output

For anyone wanting to do something else with the data, you can find the spreadsheet with the processed data here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#ijf2025

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Rather than a disappearance of data journalism, #IJF2025 marks its normalization :) For example, about half of the events tagged as "investigative journalism" or "climate & environment" mention data-related keywords. Other categories are emerging, like #AI, at its 6th appearance at the Festival.

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#ijf2025 has started, and since I can't be there, I dove into the full program to ease the FOMO. And, surprise! For the first time since 2013, there's no dedicated #DataJournalism section. To mourn its absence, I analyzed @journalismfestival.com data from 2012 - 2025. The takeaway? Read on [1/2]

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PS. all charts made thanks to the amazing @datawrapper.de 😍

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[4/4] ...each with its strength and weaknesses when it comes to communicating specific angles. At the same time, there are many choices beyond chart type that play a crucial role in ensuring a chart effectively communicates what we intend it. In the next series of posts, I'll highlight some more.

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[3/4] The same data about life expectancy in EU regions can be visualized with different charts...

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[2/4] So I've decided to inaugurate my Bluesky account with a series of post trying to explain why this is the wrong question to ask, and what could work instead.

PART 1 looks at how chart choosers focused around "messages" can help, but also oversimplify, the process of deciding upon a chart.

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[1/4] I have just finished teaching a lesson in my course centered around one of the most common, yet misframed, questions I get from my students: "What is the best chart for my data"? #dataliteracy #criticaldata #dataviz #datajournalism

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