Examples of Award-winning Data Journalism
Data Journalism Awards
This international competition honors outstanding work in data-driven journalism worldwide, recognizing both newsrooms and individuals who successfully incorporate data in reporting as well as new databases and tools for data visualization. The award is hosted by the Global Editors Network with support from Google News Lab and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in partnership with Chartbeat.
Gapminder
This nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation offers free data visualization tools and teaching
resources for using and analyzing global population statistics and macro trends.
Gapminder tools include bubble charts, maps, and databases on poverty, population growth, employment, environmental trends, and health statistics worldwide.
How America’s Thinking Changed Under Obama (Five Thirty Eight)
Produced at the end of President Barack Obama’s second term in office, this project
analyzed public opinion data from 2009 to 2016 to explore how America’s views on 32
major issues – including abortion, race relations, health care, gun laws, same sex marriage, terrorism, and the economy – changed over the course of his presidency.
How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps (The New York Times)
Using county- and congressional district-level opinion poll data gathered by the Yale
Program on Climate Communication, this collection of maps illustrates U.S. residents’
perspectives on climate change and level of support for policies to curb CO2 emissions.
How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America (The New York Times)
This collection of maps depicts the increase in drug overdoses in the United States from 2003 to 2014 using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. It also focuses on states and regions grappling with spikes in heroin-related overdoses, including New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Appalachia.
How the Wall Street Journal visualized the 500+ conflicts of interest of The Trumps
Storybench, a digital storytelling project at Northwestern University, examines a Wall Street Journal investigative project that included an interactive graphic illustrating the Trump family’s more than 500 potential political conflicts of interest. The report features a Q&A with the WSJ journalists explaining how they researched and produced the project.
Information Is Beautiful
This website, founded by award-winning data journalist David McCandless, publishes
interactive graphics visualizing statistics and data in politics, science, health, music and pop culture, and web technology that can be licensed for use. The site also offers webinars and trainings on producing captivating data visualizations.
The Best Data Visualizations of the Year Are Absolutely Incredible (2016)
Gizmodo highlights the winners and outstanding entries for the inaugural Data Stories Competition sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The winning videos incorporated static and motion graphics, charts, and pictograms to explore scientific phenomena, such as the endangerment of gazelles, changes in Mars’
atmosphere, and how people gather and interact.
Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
The Global Investigative Journalism Network features 10 data-driven journalism projects for May 3-12, 2016. Examples include an interactive map depicting German cities’
commitment to environmental conservation activities, an animated illustration of the
Atlantic slave trade, a infographic of employment trends in France by sector and region, and a video tutorial on how to create a zoomable symbol or bubble map using Datawrapper.
White Nationalists on Twitter Sure Do Love Jeff Sessions (Mother Jones)
This article spotlights a data mapping project by three mathematicians that used tweets to analyze the connections between White nationalists and American politicians. The project is part of a larger, nonpartisan project to analyze data on social issues like racial inequality and voting rights.
Datablog (The Guardian)
The Guardian’s Datablog features investigative reporting and data visualizations the
newspaper produces on various global topics. Recent examples include interactive maps of key findings from Australian census data; charts comparing health care spending and life expectancy in the U.S. and 35 other nations; an illustration of the gap between public
perception and reality of the number of Muslim residents in European countries; and a map analyzing global wealth inequality, GDP, and happiness.