DATA

JOURNALISM

22. April 2013
Boston Moments: Strong, relevant multimedia reporting, with a focus on the victims. Via New York Times Graphics.

13. April 2013
If online journalism wants money for stories, why does no one think about turning ads into meaningful stories/services, too?

11. April 2013
The Bombing of Al-Bara, Syria. A PBS-Report shows what happens in modern war.

STORYTELLING

15. Mai 2013
"It takes thick skin": The writer/editor relationship. How Richard Todd and Tracy Kidder work together, via The Open Notebook.

14. April 2013
Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film that Make the Cut? By Shan Carter, Michael Bostock and Amanda Cox, for NYT.

14. April 2013
Storytelling with Data: What Are the Impacts on the Audience? Via Nick Diakopoulos.

WEBSITES

22. Mai 2013
Heartbreaking: Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma, via In Focus/The Atlantic.

22. Mai 2013
Check out Farnam Street Blog: Don't really know where it came from, but it's a powerful daily shot of how smart humans can be (if they want, that is).

06. Mai 2013
Elephant Movements visualized, very interesting map that helps to understand an issue.

PEOPLE

16. Januar 2013
Amanda Cox, New York Times: “What if instead of praising big [data], we start praising substantial data?”

06. Dezember 2012
Maria Popova has some big ideas, via NYT.

31. August 2012
Love the visual style: Laurent Nivalle I Le Mans Classic, 2012

08. Mai 2013
Another great tutorial, here for maps: The insanely illustrated guide to your first data-driven Tilemill map, by Lisa Willams.

08. Mai 2013
Great tutorial: The absurdly illustrated guide to your first dynamic, data-driven timeline, by Lisa Williams.

15. April 2013
How to lie with statistics. Good presentation about main pitfalls of data collection, interpretation and visualization.

14. April 2013
Five steps to separate science from hype. No PhD required. Really good crash course.

13. April 2013
Sixty Seconds of Salary. Combination of data, video, animation and visualization, via CNN Money.

05. April 2013
Vega: Very interesting new visualization library building on top of D3. Check it out and play.

04. März 2013
Seven Dirty Secrets of Data Vizualization - helpful, short, to the point what to look for.

04. März 2013
Best practices for Mapping. Takeaway: Look for data that really needs a map, via #NICAR 2013.

15. Februar 2013
Amanda Cox describing her work process to get to insightful charts.
Essential reading. #ddj

12. Januar 2013
Here is a plan: "Integrating Data Journalism into Newsrooms" (PDF)

03. November 2012
Six Provocations for Big Data by Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford. Short: Don't believe the hype.

16. Oktober 2012
Open Data Emerges as a Global Movement. Good overview and comparison, with many links.

10. Oktober 2012
Answers vs. Insights: We really want answers. Good article about an important distinction.

22. September 2012
Welcome to hacker journalism 101, by Brian Boyer. A great (though demanding) reading list. Love the attitude.

31. August 2012
D3 tutorials by Scott Murray. Well written, best I found so far.

31. August 2012
From a tweet: @acarvin: "Want a future in the journalism or media? Learn to code." (laughs from the audience).

06. August 2012
Beware of eye candy when charting. Just for example, read this: "I hate stacked area charts".

16. Juli 2012
Getting Data: A Five Minute Field Guide. Excerpt from the #ddj handbook. Quick, nice overview.

15. Juli 2012
10 significant visualisation developments, January to June 2012, by Andy Kirk. Good read, shows the opportunity.

02. Juli 2012
Scraping made easy: For reasons unknown Needlebase went away. Now, Haystax is in an early stage to fill the gap.

28. Juni 2012
The story and the algorithm - Emily Bell and others discussing how to turn data into story. Video from a talk.

11. Juni 2012
Databeast.org: Detailed tutorials how to find and clean data, in German language.

12. Mai 2012
How to Choose the Best Chart for Your Data, via Lifehacker.

12. Mai 2012
A carefully selected list of visualization tools, cool presentation too, via Datavisualization.ch.

12. Mai 2012
Get started in data journalism: 60 Visualization tutorials, curated and linked, via Compulsive Data.

07. Mai 2012
Step by step: how to start in a data journalist role. By Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog.

30. April 2012
39 Data and visualization blogs worth following, via Flowing Data

22. April 2012
Baby Steps in Data Journalism: Starting from zero, this Tumblr provides tools, links and how-to information. Great place to start.

19. April 2012
When data goes bad: How to identify corrupted, incomplete data, via Online Journalism Blog

15. April 2012
Presentation: Infographics for a Post-Flash World, by Geoff McGhee (via Malofiej 2012).

03. April 2012
Google Fusion Table: Tutorial shows you how to upload data, merge tables and create maps.

03. April 2012
Is scraping legal? Some perspectives and answers, via ScraperWiki Data Blog.

03. April 2012
Words of wisdom: 10 Things You Can Learn From the New York Times’ Data Visualizations, by Andy Kirk.

02. April 2012
Project Cascade: Visualising use and re-use of news over time and different networks, created by [nytlabs]

10. März 2012
Great overview: Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized), via DailyTekk

06. März 2012
Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work, via Flowing Data.

02. März 2012
Love this: Why Data-DrivenJournalism is no joke, via Mediashift | PBS

26. Februar 2012
Step by step: How to find relevant data, clean it, then get it visualized and published in 10-20 minutes, using Datawrapper.

25. Februar 2012
Taming the Elephant: Infochimps Platform makes it easier to build Big Data stacks. Former internal system, now open.

24. Februar 2012
MUST READ: Why data-driven journalism is not rocket science - interview with Aron Pilhofer, New York Times.

15. Februar 2012
Why data visualization matters: The best data visualizations expose something new, by Julie Steele. Via O'Reilly Radar.

08. Februar 2012
Video: Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis, by Stanford Visualization Group

08. Februar 2012
Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. Pattern | CLiPS

08. Februar 2012
Help finish the Data Journalism Handbook - a list of where contributions are needed. #ddj #opendata

01. Februar 2012
Trends in Data Journalism (Study, 2012). Interesting overview and analysis of challenges.

20. Januar 2012
Spot is a cool visualizer for Twitter conversations: Search for a topic, then view relations from different angles. Go play.

20. Januar 2012
"What is the career path for a developer in a newsroom? There isn’t one right now", great post by Matt Waite

18. Januar 2012
Data Journalism Master Track, probably among the first worldwide, via Tilburg University.

14. Januar 2012
Could Google ever go down? My answer: Yes, quickly even, if they breach trust. Read the story of Mocality in Kenya.

13. Januar 2012
What is big data? An introduction - very good read. By Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Radar)

21. Dezember 2011
The Bastards Book of Ruby - programming for non-programmers. By Dan Nguyen (Pro Publica)

20. Dezember 2011
Great story based on data, well told: "Who are the richest people in Finland?", by Jens Finnäs (@Dataist)

20. Dezember 2011
Revisited: The most extensive list of tools for data-driven journalism that is out there, by Andy Kirk.

12. Dezember 2011
How data journalists at The Guardian investigated the data from the riots, by Simon Rogers (Guardian Data Blog).

08. Dezember 2011
A must-see introduction/overview: Data-driven journalism and data visualization by Jojo Malig on Prezi. Watch it and you get it.

04. Dezember 2011
Take Care of your Choropleth Maps: On the use of colour and grouping of findings. Via vis4.net (Gregor Aisch)

18. November 2011
How many smartphones are needed to lead the market? Comparison of market share vs profit, via minimally minimal

16. November 2011
The Data Journalism Handbook, written by hacks and hackers at Mozfest 2011. Here is a video about the project.

11. November 2011
How to scrape data from websites like Wikipedia, using =importHTML(“”,”table”,N).

18. Oktober 2011
Which chart for which data? Here is a very cool overview to get started, by A. Abela (2006)

12. Oktober 2011
How to use Open Data. Guidelines for Journalists, via Helsingin Sanomat, by Esa Mäkinen

08. Oktober 2011
The Data, The Scraper, The Tweeter and The Bot: Modifying data into news feeds, via Data Miner UK (Nicola Hughes).

19. September 2011
Building data science teams. What they need to know and how they work, via O'Reilly Radar

28. August 2011
Data Visualization for Non-Programmers, via Knight Digital Media Center. Great tutorial for beginners.

12. August 2011
Zanran is a search engine for data and charts. It looks into PDFs of studies, too. Fast way to find numbers for almost everything.

23. Juli 2011
Data journalism for beginners: How to analyze unfamiliar data - circle, dive, and riff (via Anne Bourgeon)

22. Juli 2011
Datadoodle: Where the humans meet analytics and related subjects. Frequent posts how to find meaning in data.

22. Juli 2011
Tutorial: How to use ScraperWiki to get data, even if you do not code.

19. Juli 2011
Making of: "How We Visualized 23 Years of Geo Bee Contests", via Datavisualization.ch

19. Juli 2011
Same As: A smart service for the coming web of linked data. Find datasets that are "same as" others.

14. Juli 2011
Open Data in Africa: "Kenya's quiet revolution", there is something going on here.

08. Juli 2011
Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack, via O'Reilly Radar

04. Juli 2011
Backgrounder: An introduction to "Linked and Open Data" for Information Professionals, by Zach Beauvais (Kasabi)

26. Juni 2011
PANDA Project is a “newsroom data application,” that helps find context and relationships on the fly. A winner at Nieman 2011

09. Juni 2011
"Data is evergreen content. Its value to users does not end after 24 hours", links to article by Rich Gordon (2007)

09. Juni 2011
Focus on story: If you are a journalist and interested in data stories, "Visualization as a Reporting Tool" is a must-read. (fixed link)

05. Juni 2011
How to make searchable, Web-based Google charts | Tutorial @Poynter, by Michelle Minkoff (again)

05. Juni 2011
McKinsey expects rising demand for data heads, resulting in opportunities for journalists - via Nathan Yau, Flowing Data.

04. Juni 2011
How to use Google Visualization tools. Short video tutorial shows you what journalists can do using tools that are out there.

03. Juni 2011
Bringing data journalism into curricula, by Michelle Minkoff

03. Juni 2011
Compile, Clean, Connect: The mantra of data journalism, presentation from Paul Bradshaw.

17. Mai 2011
The Social Life of Data: A new project from the UK. They ask the right questions, I just like the idea behind it.

13. Mai 2011
How Open Data Initiatives Can Improve City Life (via Mashable).

12. Mai 2011
Scraping, cleaning and selling big data. Via O'Reilly Radar, covers work of US-Company Infochimps.

12. Mai 2011
Cool: What happens to a data set once it is open? "The Social Life of Data" tries to find out.

08. Mai 2011
Learn Python with Google. It's an online tutorial, well structured and not too long to be scary.

27. März 2011
Needlebase = super-easy data scraping, merging, geo-coding.

27. März 2011
How to think like a data scientist: Seven secrets, shared by Michael Driscoll (Dataspora Blog)

26. März 2011
Corporations won't like this, but journalists do: Scraping financial information from offshore tax havens (by Open Corporates).

10. Februar 2011
Tutorial: Communicating Data Clearly, by Naomi B. Robbins, from Strata Conference 2011.

21. Januar 2011
Helpful Q&A site "Get the Data". If you are searching for datasets or have questions, this is a good place to go.

21. Januar 2011
The London DataStore and the apps built with information available there provide a good case why opening up data is the future.

04. Januar 2011
How to scrape data from websites, a guide and list of tools from ProPublica.

08. Dezember 2010
Tutorial: How to scrape data from a website. Here: 12.000 Restaurants in 12 minutes, using ScraperWiki.

08. Dezember 2010
Data-Journalist, this is for you: R is a powerful, open-source visualization software. Used by the New York Times and others. Cool stuff.

27. November 2010
Journalists need to understand how to program. But how? "Learn Python the hard way" is a good start. PDF is free. Don't let the title scare you.

14. Oktober 2010
There is an entry on "data-driven journalism" on the Wikipedia. It provides an overview, but can still be improved. Would you help us?

14. Oktober 2010
How to be a data journalist, written by Paul Bradshaw for the Guardian. Good entry point for everyone who is interested.

07. Oktober 2010
"Fractions of second" from the New York Times: An example how you can tell a story that is based on data.

07. Oktober 2010
Spendometer: A personal budgeting tool that is kind of fun. Intentionally playful and easy to use.

02. Oktober 2010
Metadata is a must for the future, but a pain today. See how the Associated Press works on this. Interesting.

02. Oktober 2010
Data-driven journalism: Only the start. This links to an article I wrote and let's you download a free PDF, over at EJC.net

30. September 2010
Journalism in the age of data: A documentary. See what the idea is all about. Created by Geoff McGhee.

30. September 2010
Geneva, Stanford, Amsterdam - different places, same message. A link to my data-driven journalism presentations from 2010.

22. September 2010
Schooloscope: A sensible approach to grade schools. It's in beta, but keeps a balance between informing and exposing. By Berg (London).

16. September 2010
Interested in data processing and visualization? Please meet Ben Fry, who wrote a book on how to process data. Even if you are not a coder.

14. September 2010
The World Bank provides access to large amounts of data from around the world. They relaunched the site and provide access for apps.

25. August 2010
Development of Facebook privacy - visualized by Matt McKeon in a way that let's you understand in an instant. Scary, too.

25. August 2010
Hal Varian in the McKinsey Quarterly: "I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians." Interesting read.

25. August 2010
How can you avoid a software project becoming a desaster? Here is some data. Ages old by web standards, but still relevant.

25. August 2010
The investigative reporting team of the Washington Post invested two years to collect stories and data: "Top Secret America."

25. August 2010
Where does my money go? -- An example how open data can be used for more clarity. This is just the start.

02. August 2010
In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Today, the name of the game is data. "Supercrunchers" is an interesting read on this.

05. April 2013
Five types of content curation tools for journalists, via News:Rewired

05. April 2013
Show Us The Data: Time For Companies To Reveal What They Know About Us, via ReadWriteWeb

04. April 2013
Jacob Harris on turning freeform text into journalism: How the data sausage gets made

09. März 2013
Teach people how to interview databases, via Nieman Lab.

04. März 2013
Raju Narisetti on designing for mobile, the paywall fallacy, and reinventing ads, via Nieman Lab.

28. Januar 2013
Simon Rogers: 22 key links for data-driven journalism.

17. Januar 2013
A lot observed, a lot of learnings: 21 Things I Learned Running Hyperlocal News Sites

14. Januar 2013
Study: Across the world, money to support journalism startups comes from a variety of sources, via Nieman Journalism Lab

28. November 2012
Important: "Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present", by C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, Clay Shirky

11. November 2012
Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win, via TIME

02. November 2012
Data, uncertainty, and specialization: What journalism can learn from FiveThirtyEight’s election coverage

24. Oktober 2012
Learnable Programming, by Bret Victor. Very important when talking about teaching old horses new tricks.

10. Oktober 2012
How La Nación holds power to account in Costa Rica with investigative data journalism

23. September 2012
Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry, Megan Garber - The Atlantic

22. September 2012
A reading list for studying online journalism, by Paul Bradshaw. Read these books and presumably the future does not look that bleak.

13. September 2012
Three media ventures, three models, one is a success. Compare for yourself.

13. September 2012
“We don’t select publications anymore, we select links”: Clay Shirky writing for Columbia Journalism Review

27. August 2012
Book Reviewers for hire: Relevant and revealing story from #NYT. Brings up question of trust/truth in online content.

16. August 2012
"Everywhere at Once: Chef Geoff Tracy’s Data-Driven Empire". It's a peek into the future of data use.

16. August 2012
Good: "The future of journalism can and will be better than the past", by Richard Gingras (via Poynter).

16. Juli 2012
Must read: The Engaging Data Manifesto, by Eric Hochhalter. Sums up why #ddj is important and what the focus is.

04. Juli 2012
Carto DB is an alternative to create maps. Here is an information-rich tutorial.

30. Mai 2012
Reinventing the article. Goal is to provide context, based on structured data.

07. Mai 2012
Can Data Journalism Save Newsrooms? Panel at the International Journalism Festival, Perugia, via Mediashift | PBS.

30. April 2012
The Data Journalism Handbook is here. Free on the web, book and eBook by O'Reilly.

22. April 2012
A peek inside the Data Journalism Handbook. A crowd-sourced resource, providing overview and insights.

22. April 2012
Datenjournalismus als Geschäftsmodell (in German): Blogpost about Open Data City, a smart data journalism start-up from Berlin.

15. April 2012
PEW: 72% of US adults are local news enthusiasts, survey says. Does not mean that they are enthusiastic about local newspapers.

14. April 2012
Start small, get it right: The newsonomics of small things. By Ken Doctor // Nieman Journalism Lab

22. März 2012
How Target figured out a teenage girl was pregnant before her father ... and why their analytic energy would be better spent on health

18. März 2012
Scrape it, map it, grab it: The Kind of Programming Journalism Needs (Is Simple), by Lisa Williams

10. März 2012
#SXSW 2012: Data-driven Journalism Unconference , with NPR, Texas Tribune, Buzzdata, Panda Project, Infochimps & Deutsche Welle.

10. März 2012
The term “data driven journalism” has become popular. Yet data illiteracy among journalists is high, says Aron Pilhofer.

04. März 2012
How I built my first app (with a little help) | Technology | The Observer

25. Februar 2012
"The visualisations I love are those that exhibit a very simple design execution but unlock disproportionately rich stories" - Andy Kirk

15. Februar 2012
The bond between data and journalism grows stronger: Interview with the Liliana Bounegru, via O'Reilly Radar.

18. Januar 2012
Why I started PandoDaily, by Sarah Lacy. Notable: A site covering companies en route to IPO wanting just the opposite for itself.

18. Januar 2012
Facebook Research: Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks. Interesting view, yet only the start of understanding the future.

10. Januar 2012
Tutorials | Knight Digital Media Center: If you want to sharpen your skills, here is a great resource.

11. November 2011
Rolf Dobelli: "News is to the mind what sugar is to the body". A critic of todays fast-food news production and consumption.

05. November 2011
The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times. A speech by Arthur Sulzberger

21. Oktober 2011
Entrepreneurial journalism: J++, short for Journalism++, builds datajournalism applications that help people make decisions.

19. Oktober 2011
Would your news organization accept a 30% failure rate when innovating? Some data how Google handles this, via Poynter.

12. Oktober 2011
"Existing journalism formats are not very good at engaging curiosity", via Jonathan Stray, in: "Designing journalism to be used"

23. September 2011
News organizations should build apps that solve problems, not just republish content, via Poynter

12. August 2011
Programming for mere mortals, an eBook series by Steven Frank. First issue: How to count.

31. Juli 2011
Data journalism at The Guardian: What is it and how they do it, written by Simon Rogers.

23. Juli 2011
What is a data-journalist? Brian Boyer calls them hacker journalists: Like a photo journalist, but with a laptop (via Michelle Minkoff)

20. Juli 2011
All the Guardian's data journalism articles. In one spreadsheet. Pragmatic approach, impressive results.

14. Juli 2011
Insightful analysis by Paul Bradshaw: 6 ways of communicating data journalism, via Online Journalism Blog

05. Juli 2011
What are the right metrics for newspapers? Answers here, from an interview with Brian Storm by Håvard Ferstad

01. Juli 2011
Open Data in the Newsroom: What's the story? My talk from OKCon 2011 (on Slideshare)

17. Juni 2011
Ever wondered why articles with numbered lists are so successful? Over at Cracked.com "listicles" become an art form (via Wired).

11. Juni 2011
How a false story went global: From Twitter to Reuters to all the big names in media. A cautionary tale: "Psychic Tips, Media Frenzies and Texas"

04. Juni 2011
Media executives: Stop fighting your employees, stop fighting your readers - Nick Bilton Interview @Storytell.in

04. Juni 2011
Page One. A documentary about the New York Times, here is the trailer.

03. Juni 2011
The future of advertising? This piece argues that "brand is story". Which means that well told narratives have a rising value, doesn't it?

09. Mai 2011
How journalists can "hack RSS feeds", find relevant stories and reduce information overload (via GigaOm).

08. Mai 2011
Inside the New York Times: A documentary, here's a link to the trailer.

04. März 2011
Media companies must become trusted data hubs: This links to reactions on Twitter. What is your opinion? Join the conversation.

02. März 2011
Co-wrote an article with Geoff McGhee and Nicolas Kayser-Bril: Media companies must become trusted data hubs - on OWNI.eu and Nieman Labs.

09. Februar 2011
Jonathan Stray » A computational journalism reading list. The most complete overview you can get right now. Really helpful.

21. Januar 2011
25 rules for Journalists - to write better, to find the story. Great stuff from Tim Radford, published in The Guardian

18. Dezember 2010
We saw a lot of movement for Data Driven Journalism in 2010. Here is a linklist to examples, presentations and other material.

27. November 2010
Anthony DeBarros has a to-the-point analysis how data affects journalism.

22. September 2010
The beauty of photoshop: The NYT shows how models look before and after. Innovative use of photo overlays. Must see.

12. September 2010
Looking for a place where the rules for online journalism are collected without too much clutter? Check out "Advancing the Story".

25. August 2010
"Finding the frame" let's you sent in your multimedia piece for review. Collaborative learning, I like the idea and the results, too.

25. August 2010
Mathew Allard (Al Jazeera) tests the Sony NEX-5. Maybe we get around buying a Canon 5D MkII. But only maybe.

25. August 2010
"Journalists working for journalists" - the claim of the European Journalism Centre is a fitting description of what they do.

25. August 2010
Presenting the facts is what journalists do. But how do people cope with that if they are plainly wrong? Read "How facts backfire" and you know.

25. August 2010
There is an important difference between a puzzle and a mystery. Malcolm Gladwell explains the "perils of too much information".

02. August 2010
Stijn Debrouwere, an information architect from Belgium, argues why journalism should focus on structuring information, not simply dressing up content.

13. April 2013
Secrets of the Magus, love the narrative here. Via The New Yorker, 1993

13. April 2013
How the banner ad was born (includes mention of "Ace of Base"), via Digiday.

13. April 2013
Tell a four word story: Elevator pitches reduced to bare essentials, via Medium.

11. April 2013
Social hierarchy in elevators. Why and how we try to keep maximum distance. Fascinating, via Kottke.org

09. April 2013
The Art Market for Dummies, a data comparison. Some surprises, some cool charts, too.

22. März 2013
Storytelling with data, a talk from Jonathan Corum. Worth your time.

09. März 2013
Inequality in America - Data Storytelling in Video, via Robert Kosara

04. März 2013
How to make a can for Coca Cola. The incomprehensible complex process one product, sold for 54 Cents. Astounding article, by Kevin Ashton.

10. Januar 2013
2012: The Year in Graphics - by the amazing team at the New York Times.

29. Dezember 2012
The New York Times pushing the envelope - "Snow Fall" combines text and multimedia for the web. Some debate, but great.

27. November 2012
Clay Shirky: "Young journalists don't care how it was done in the past". One (cool) result: The Fracking Song.

22. November 2012
The Hard Life of an N.F.L. Long Shot, by Charles Siebert (New York Times)

24. Oktober 2012
Storytelling and Focus, based on Minard's famous map of the death march of Napoleon's army.

12. September 2012
Whoah: 240 great data interactives on one page. Great resource and a model for other collections, too.

31. August 2012
Jason Smyth - Paralympian.

31. August 2012
Great story, told with a soundslide: Gunter Holtorf's 23-year road trip (BBC)

16. August 2012
"It's Better in the Wind" is a must-see shortfilm about a roadtrip with motorcyles.

15. August 2012
Narratively. Telling New Yorks untold stories. Hope they get to the funding goal on Kickstarter.

15. August 2012
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet. A story about innovation, well told.

11. August 2012
Sight. A film about the future.

10. August 2012
Can't tell you how much I love this. The images, the rhythm, the music: It's Better In The Wind, by Scott Toepfer.

05. August 2012
Depth of Speed. Car culture, love for old mechanical things, dreams. All in here.

05. August 2012
Steve McQueen and the Story of Le Mans, via The Selvedge Yard

08. Mai 2012
Love this: How To Survive A Robot Uprising (aka Robopocalypse). Sweet & terrifying at the same time.

07. Mai 2012
Re(de)fining Print and the Resurgence of the Magazine, via Hypebeast .

24. April 2012
The power of storytelling: How One Response to a Reddit Question Became a Big-Budget Flic, via Wired.

23. April 2012
Christiano Ronaldo: Tested to the limit. Fascinating story, involving (lots of) data.

19. April 2012
So revealing: Six degrees of aggregation -How the Huffington Post ate the Internet, by Michael Shapiro

19. April 2012
Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android. Astonishing funding via Kickstarter. Really astonishing.

15. April 2012
Heart-warming: Caine’s Arcade: A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year old boy, short video.

13. April 2012
Smart, funny advertising: We know drama!

10. April 2012
Aron Pilhofer: “Medien sind nicht datengetrieben” | Datenjournalist

27. März 2012
How Athletes build their brains: The Science Of Growing Talent, by Joe Ward from the New York Times

02. März 2012
Beware of over-simplification: Telling a (data) story doesn’t tell the whole story, via Fell in Love with Data

25. Februar 2012
This is part funny, part disturbing: One writers experience when trying to sell a book. Short version: The bots take care of that.

16. Februar 2012
Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission, by Kurt Voelker. Very readable and clear.

15. Februar 2012
Great analysis: Narrative Visualization - Telling Stories with Data, by Edward Segel & Jeffrey Heer (Stanford Vis Group).

15. Februar 2012
This is - in a way - fascinating and revealing: The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia, via: The Chronicle of Higher Education.

08. Februar 2012
How it is and how it should be: The structure of great, engaging stories. Talk by Nancy Duarte @ TEDx East

14. Januar 2012
YouTube Player Gets Video Thumbnails and Storyboards: Helps to understand structures and flow of stories.

20. Dezember 2011
This is for storytellers: Introduction To Sequence Structure, by Neal Romanek. Great "Star Wars" example here, too.

14. November 2011
Colonista.de - a website telling stories from Cologne. It's my newest project, a platform for storytelling. Check it out.

11. November 2011
The Knife Maker, via "This is Made by Hand". Inspiring, wonderfully shot and telling a very personal story.

31. Oktober 2011
10 common video storytelling mistakes (and how to avoid them), by Adam Westbrook

30. September 2011
The joy of handmade, quality goods. A video collection worth watching, at "F**k Yeah Made in USA"

23. September 2011
Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything by F.S. Michaels (Book)

13. August 2011
8 Rules of Multimedia. Simple, compelling, easy to follow (via Digital Naturalist).

13. August 2011
M-U-S-T_S-E-E: 8 Hours in Brooklyn. Slow motion, incredible visuals (by Next Level Pictures).

31. Juli 2011
Charles Joseph Minard: Infographic displaying the death march of the French Army under Napoleon, published 1869.

21. Juli 2011
Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story. An amazing detail is how the film got funded via Kickstarter. Look up the number.

14. Juli 2011
Steve Buttry in reply to Jeff Jarvis: Why should storytelling stop evolving now? via The Buttry Diary

08. Juli 2011
"If it where my home" is a website, that is powered by a great idea and very well executed.

08. Juli 2011
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us — And How to Know When Not to Trust Them” by David H. Freedman

05. Juli 2011
How to create the ultimate TEDTalk, by Sebastian Wernicke. Advice based on statistical analysis, very funny.

29. Juni 2011
Good storytelling, what is that exactly? Need an example in 53 seconds?

26. Juni 2011
The Power of Story: Three attributes that make stories important, powerful and lasting forever (from TEDx Vancouver)

19. Juni 2011
Why storytelling rises in importance vs. brand building: The stories must be true.

17. Juni 2011
Hunting down the bots: A modern-day thriller story, from the real word. Well written by Christoper S. Stewart

05. Juni 2011
Gear guide for multimedia journalists - low, mid and high budget. Provides a good orientation (via Innovative Interactivity)

05. Juni 2011
Quote: "Is Twitter Like Speech or Like Writing? The Answer Is Yes." (via GigaOm)

04. Juni 2011
Mitch Alfus, father of three, husband of two. Leather King. A Selby Film. Incredible piece of work.

03. Juni 2011
How to shoot video that doesn't suck. Links to a promotion trailer for a book. But even the five tips there are gold.

24. März 2011
The Guardian: The path to protest. A masterful timeline to structure information about Middle East protests.

23. März 2011
Memolane helps you to visualize what you did, what happened. Nice way to use screenshots and photos.

18. Februar 2011
The Hot Spotters: A brilliant story in the "New Yorker", on how understanding patient data might help to repair our health systems.

11. Februar 2011
Funny & revealing: OkCupid analyzed the "Best questions to ask on a first date". Further proof that understanding the data is everything.

10. Februar 2011
The Sartorialist: A great online video about Fashion-Blogger Scott Schumann. Good Storytelling, impressive scenes.

13. Januar 2011
Moving from Soundslides to video? Here is a good tutorial from Mindy McAdams for iMovie.

13. Januar 2011
"Consider the Lobster", by David Foster Wallace. Just read it. Published on Gourmet.com, where it created some controversy.

05. Januar 2011
The Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling provides proof why data is sexy. This links to a short clip from the BBC programme.

04. Januar 2011
100 Things to watch in 2011 from JWT Research. This presentation is interesting because it makes you think about change.

06. Dezember 2010
Did you wake up this morning and could not remember what happened? Maybe you find the answer in "Texts from last night".

06. Dezember 2010
David McCandless talks about the "Beauty of Data Visualization" at TED in August 2010. Some of the examples he shows are stunning.

19. November 2010
"Give me something to read" is a site, where they collect long-form online journalism. An uncluttered site with gems of good content.

13. November 2010
"People are starving for good stories": Four short videos with Brian Storm we shot for Deutsche Welle in 2008, transcript by Håvard Ferstad.

13. November 2010
Close-up, disturbingly close: Photographer Tony Fouhse shot pictures of crack addicts in Ottawa. The series is called "User".

13. November 2010
Big question: Are successful entrepreneurs just "lucky fools"? Adam Smith thought so.

28. Oktober 2010
"Out my window" is a panoramic documentary by Katerina Cizek (@katciz). Stunning and creative.

07. Oktober 2010
A question that bugs me: If the 5D MKII is too expensive and you just want to shoot, which one is better: Canon 60D or Panasonic GH2?

01. Oktober 2010
If you want to be a star on Slideshare, you should STEAL THIS PRESENTATION. A good guide for presentation design.

28. September 2010
Storify enables you to curate tweets. Sort, filter, add - whatever. It combines real-time with overview, which is cool.

14. September 2010
Here is a link to Duck Rabbit, producers of fine multimedia. I like the fact that most of these studios have names like a motorcycle club.

14. September 2010
The portfolio of Story4, a multimedia production studio. They work for media and NGOs.

14. September 2010
Ira Glass (This American Life) sitting down to talk about storytelling - from basics to master. This links to part 1 of a series on YouTube.

12. September 2010
"Spill the beans" is a storytelling platform from Germany, most stories are in english. I hope that the market will open for such productions.

25. August 2010
"Give me something to read" is into long-form articles. The site is feeding the great Instapaper app on the iPhone. Feeds you with good stuff.

25. August 2010
"Take care", from a training workshop by Mediastorm. Shows that you should not judge a book by its cover.

03. August 2010
"The Mast Brothers" get delight from chocolate. This video makes you dream of working in a small company that focuses on quality.

02. August 2010
"Scrapertown" is one video in a series at "California is a place" and brings you to East Oakland. HD-Video and a great story.

14. April 2013
Google introduces "Inactive Account Manager". Essentially a last will for your electronic mails and other musings, via The Atlantic.

05. April 2013
Stop working (so hard), by Kyle Bragger via Medium. Actually this a note to myself.

04. April 2013
What is the secret to great infographics? Good background article about Kim Rees of Periscopic.

17. Februar 2013
Lookbook.nu - in various ways best fashion community out there. Main reason: Positive vibe, fun, friendliness.

13. Februar 2013
Creating a magazine experience on the web, notably sStory is opening new options.

10. November 2012
Journalists, learn to code? This tutorial teaches you how to built a cool interactive, filtered web page, by Marije Rooze.

22. September 2012
22tracks brings you instant music, with playlists from DJs in Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris. Addictive.

19. September 2012
Beautiful web type - a showcase of the best fonts. This helps you to get great typography on your next site.

31. August 2012
Statwing aims to simplify complex data analysis. One to watch.

31. August 2012
The best interface is no interface. Good design thinking here. The future is about making things simpler.

05. August 2012
Hypebeast.com has found a formula to cover what urban people care about. Good level of interestingness.

16. Juli 2012
D3 Workshop, good overview why everyone in #ddj and #dataviz is so excited about this.

16. Juli 2012
The Feature.net (formerly known as "Give me something to read"). A hand-picked selection of the finest articles.

02. Juli 2012
"On the media" is a witty, weekly radio podcast. They did a whole edition about data. Listen up.

12. Mai 2012
Slavery's last stronghold - CNN.com. Important story, well presented. Effective use of a long multimedia page.

07. Mai 2012
Data-driven products: Is this data scientist a consumer’s best friend? Interesting approach here, via GigaOm.

15. April 2012
Cabin Porn: No, not what you think. It's a lovely photo tumblr. Makes you want to live elsewhere.

15. April 2012
What's Going On In The WordPress Economy? Key finding: Growing worldwide. By Siobhan McKeown // Smashing Magazine

03. April 2012
Andy Rutledge: "Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken". What can be done to fix this?

29. März 2012
Wind Map of the United States - live, interactive, amazing and beautiful. By Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas.

24. Februar 2012
Launched: Datawrapper. A simple, easy to use tool for data visualization, especially for journalists.

08. Februar 2012
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? By Michael Wolfe

08. Februar 2012
Responsive web design and the future of print: MediaShift Idea Lab investigates strategy of Boston Globe Online.

06. Februar 2012
Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.

11. Januar 2012
The Wirecutter | A List of the Best Gadgets. They have an interesting way of cutting away the crap, instead they get to a point.

21. Dezember 2011
The Atlantic: How One Magazine Became Profitable by Going 'Digital First', via Mashable.

02. Dezember 2011
Little Printer | BERG Cloud. Cute? Yes. Innovative? Definitely. You just gotta love the thinking behind it.

29. November 2011
Convoy: A Tumblr website presenting an overdose of inspiring, aesthetic mix of pictures. Pretty addictive.

29. November 2011
It's not about just looking good: "Design for Developers" (and journalists, too). Cool slideshare presentation.

21. Oktober 2011
HTML5 Reading List. Not just for web developers. Because this is where we are heading.

21. Oktober 2011
UX Design and Mobile Experience? This is helpful: Organizing Mobile, by Luke Wroblewsk

21. September 2011
Make sure your content looks the same in each browser: A dozen testing tools, reviewed by Smashing Magazine

12. August 2011
PixelPing: Developed by Pro Publica. It's a statistical tool to track usage of content, even via embeds on other sites.

12. August 2011
RGraph: A Javascript charts and graph library. By using the HTML5 canvas tag, you can now create attractive visuals of data.

31. Juli 2011
HTML 5 is coming, fast: Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies, via Smashing Magazine

31. Juli 2011
Makes you want to start a new website: Best Free WordPress Themes, 2011 Edition, via Smashing Magazine

29. Juli 2011
Bring A Trailer: They help you to find good classic cars. Combines concepts of curation, editorial and trust. Makes money.

19. Juli 2011
Devour: Curated online video, magazine style. A mix of television, web and glossy "print magazine"

08. Juli 2011
GOOD Magazine: Love the infographics (and other sections).

26. Juni 2011
Tweet late, email early: How to be more effective in social communication (based on two year data mining)

24. Juni 2011
Can information be architected? A presentation from Oliver Reichenstein (Euro IA 2010). Great presentation.

17. Juni 2011
Bit.ly has made it's pro-features available to all users. Means: You can create a cool shor.lnk yourself (via TechCrunch).

07. Juni 2011
Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad - using paper mock-ups (via Omni Group)

05. Juni 2011
HTML5 resource guide: A long list pointing out tutorials, frameworks to play around with.

04. Juni 2011
Jumpchart: A platform to plan websites, with wireframes, sorting content.

13. Mai 2011
How do people navigate through news sites? Detailed study from PEW Research Center, free download.

08. April 2011
Visual.ly is a new "hub" to connect makers of infographics with a larger public. Interesting video provides an overview.

23. März 2011
Interesting for journalists: Infinite webpages, here are 15 examples (via Inspired Mag)

10. Februar 2011
The website for VISION Cloud, an EU project I am working in most of my time, is online since January 2011. Uses Fullstory CMS.

10. Februar 2011
Cool cars: I used one of the templates from Graphpaperpress to built this for a friend of mine: Hammer Performance.

08. Dezember 2010
Looking for a fresh look for your blog or web project? Try Themeforest: 3.000 Weblayouts for WordPress, HTML.

06. Dezember 2010
I find it very inspiring to look at nice architecture online. Here is a good one: "Office snapshots", makes you want to work for a web agency.

19. November 2010
Can a website change the world? Probably not. Can a good idea change the world? Probably yes, if it is as good as Cola Life.

28. Oktober 2010
Internet Statistics: TNS Digital Life provides a country by country overview, interesting Flash layout.

04. Oktober 2010
Important question: How much money is earned by some of the bigger blogs? Some seem to make good money, if the numbers here are true.

22. September 2010
BBC Dimensions compares sizes and regions that you know with sizes and regions that you should know about.

12. September 2010
"Information is beautiful" provides a fresh look at big issues, based on data analysis. It helps you to see patterns more clearly.

25. August 2010
"Freunde von Freunden" translates into "Friends of Friends". The site let's you peek into other peoples homes. Great sense of style.

03. August 2010
Curbed has become the "most-trafficked neighborhood and real-estate weblog on the web".

03. August 2010
When developing a new website, going to Siteinspire is a good idea: A database allows to browse prime examples of good design.

18. Juli 2010
Monocle connects a print magazine with a good website. Not a site to check day by day, but you'll find something surprising each month.

13. Juli 2010
Aggregated news, easy to check. Techmeme is usually the first website I go to in the morning.

08. März 2012
So cool: Kartograph – rethink mapping. Created by Gregor Aisch (@driven_by_data)

15. Februar 2012
How can one person be so smart? Mike Bostock, creator of Protovis and D3.js

13. Januar 2012
Andy Kirk, founder of Visualising Data, creative design lead, blog editor. Best source for resources and monthly "best visualization examples".

11. November 2011
The incredible visual artistry of Drea Cooper, Director (who did "California is a place"). This links to his website.

12. August 2011
Toni Hirst is a one man research organization: Exploring data, asking questions, helping others.

10. August 2011
Brian Boyer, hacker journalist. Works on apps for journalists and newsrooms.

19. Juli 2011
Amanda Cox now has a Tumblr blog, where you find here awesome projects.

09. Juni 2011
Catherine Mulbrandon, Visualizing Economics: Look at her project about "Income in the United States".

09. Juni 2011
Sarah Cohen, a prize-winning journalist, Duke's Knight Professor and director of the Reporter's Lab.

04. März 2011
Presentation: Fast, funny, furious - Paul Bradshaw's Inaugural lecture, City University

04. März 2011
Jay Rosen on bloggers vs. journalists: Mostly a psychological thing. Will be a talk on SXSW in Austin in 2011. Just booked my flight.

10. Februar 2011
Smart, energetic, nice guy: Data-Journalist Nicolas Kayser-Bril. See this: A day as a datajournalist at OWNI, on Prezi.

18. Dezember 2010
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Why the web format has contaminated online journalism

06. Dezember 2010
How the New York Times works with data & graphics: 1 hour presentation by Amanda Cox, at New Media Days 2010

30. September 2010
Aron Pilhofer, head of interactive projects at the New York Times. Click here to download training material for Django and Rails.

13. September 2010
Adam Westbrook, multimedia storyteller. And: A good thinker and trainer on the future of journalism.

25. August 2010
Nat Torkington publishes just "Four short links". And almost every day I wonder where he found all these nuggets.

25. August 2010
Simon Rogers is the editor of the Guardian Datablog. He uses data for reporting and it consistently looks so elegant and so right.

25. August 2010
Brian Storm, mediastorm.com: I think that what he does is inspiring and important.

10. August 2010
Musician, web developer, innovator. Adrian Holovaty has contributed big time to journalism already.

12. Juli 2010
Mindy McAdams wrote the "Reporters Guide to Multimedia Profiency". If you look for an overview, download the free PDF.

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