How does Quartz create visualizations so quickly on breaking news? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Nieman Foundation at Harvard

ABOUT SUBSCRIBE

Business Models

Audience & Social

Aggregation & Discovery

Reporting & Production

How does Quartz create visualizations so quickly on breaking news?

LINK: www.quora.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | May 29, 2013

If you’ve ever wondered, someone else did on Quora, and the site’s Ritchie S. King responded:

Read Quote of Ritchie S. King’s answer to Quartz: How does quartz – QZ.com create visualizations so fast for developing news stories? on Quora

D3.js is awesome, although it does have a bit of a learning curve. Very smart to create a mediating tool the whole newsroom can use.

Show tags Show comments / Leave a comment

Join the 50,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.

From deepfakes to TikTok filters: How do you label AI content?

How should we label AI media in ways that people understand? And how might the labels backfire?

How systems thinking is guiding El Tímpano’s reporting on health & overcrowded housing

We can design our reporting to be valuable to multiple stakeholders, build on local expertise, uncover areas in need of investigation, and identify opportunities for change.

Why do people avoid news? It’s not just because it makes them feel bad

Plus: How community-centered collaborative journalism really works in a pandemic, the impact of Sinclair on national political views, and the everyday tactics that shape whether young people trust news.