February 2012
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Before and After: Analyzing ESPN "SportsCenter"...
A couple weeks ago, just in time for the Super Bowl, we published a couple fun graphics that used transcripts of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” as a way to look back on the NFL season.
Originally, I had a concept in mind very similar to the one we (mostly Shan Carter) did in 2010 for the World Cup.
A colleague suggested instead using 3D players rather than photos, in part just to do...
January 2012
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Before and After: Defense Puzzle Responses
A few weeks ago we published a “Defense Budget Puzzle” (a sequel of sorts to one we made in 2010 that dealt with the federal deficit) that focused on a series of choices that the Pentagon is making to cut its budget. This time, however, we stored the choices readers made when they “submitted” their plans. And last week, when Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker highlighted...
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Before, During and After: The Richest 1 Percent
This weekend the NYT published Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff’s story about the richest 1 percent of Americans (a more diverse bunch than you’d think). The graphics department published a lot of work in print and online to accompany the article. Online, there was an interactive map that shows you where you and your income rank in 344 zones across the country and a treemap of what...
December 2011
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Before and After: The Path to 270
Last week we did a graphic showing potential paths to victory for Democrats in 2012. We only had a half day to make this, so we really scrambled to get it done, and the end product was once again pretty close to Matt Ericson’s original drawing.
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Before and After: Indonesian Paper
I was cleaning out my desk today and came across some sketches from some graphics we’ve published in the last year. Here’s a sketch drawn by Mike McIntire, an investigative reporter, as he described to me his story about the ties between a Tea Party group and an Asian Paper Company. (When someone needs to draw something to explain the story to you, it’s a good sign that the story...
November 2011
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Brilliant
From this week’s NFL matchups:
“The Broncos’ defense has been exceptional in the last two weeks, allowing just 23 points while scoring seven on an interception return Tebow. The rookie Von Miller has nine and a half sacks Tebow, Elvis Dumervil has played his way back into form after a chest injury erased his 2010 season Tebow and linebackers D. J. Tebow and Joe Mays have made an...
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Before and After: Senate Race Ratings
Our most recent addition to the elections app had an analysis of the 33 Senate seats up for election in 2012. Aside from a couple brief technical bugs and, it must be said, a humiliating correction to the print version, I’m still really happy with the page. And even after dozens of mockups, it’s still pretty close to Matt Ericson’s first sketch (which seems to be pointing into...
Brutal.
I screwed up a print map yesterday.
“And a map with the article mislabeled, in some editions, the state in the upper left corner of the contiguous United States that is considered solidly Democratic. It is Washington, not Oregon. (Though the outcome of some races may be in doubt, one thing is for certain: Oregon will always be solidly under Washington.)”
Exporting and then...
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Before and After: Super PACs and Campaign Finance
A few weeks ago we published a nice graphic in print about the new universe of campaign finance. Alicia Parlapiano went through dozens of drafts and ideas, but they were all just variations on an original sketch.
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Online, we published a much different presentation that suited the design constraints better. Really large graphics, especially network diagrams, don’t usually...
Paid internships in data journalism
Here’s the list right here. Update: Matt Waite added these to the news dev jobs list. Now it’s here.
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Earlier this year, Amanda Cox and I tricked Dan Fagin into letting us teach a class in NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (it’s like a cult, but in a good way). We pitched a class that we thought would teach the...
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Averages, distributions and the New York City...
On Sunday, like 43,000 other people, I ran the New York City marathon. It was a great day and certainly the best-run race I’ve ever been a part of. (The stakes were low…the last marathon I ran was the Soweto Marathon in South Africa in 2005. The water ran out, but there was plenty of Coke.)
After the race, I heard from friends and family who tracked me through NYRR’s free...
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Hello.
I’ll use this blog to show some aspects of the work of the New York Times Graphics Department, where I work as a staff editor. I also teach a class with Amanda Cox about data journalism at NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Journalism Program, so I’ll post about internships and student work sometimes too. I’m also working on a post about a dream side of the 11 best...
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Before and After: 2010 House Elections
I’ve shown this image in a variety of settings, and has been was explained in depth a few times by Amanda Cox, who did most of the work, but I’m posting it here because it’s one of the favorite things I’ve ever drawn. (Admittedly, the bar is set low.)
I like this drawing for two reasons:
It’s easy proof that I’m from Minnesota. (The Lake of the Woods looms...