Listen "How Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism"
Episode Synopsis
The Axios team have spearheaded 'smart brevity', but how does that apply to data journalism and data visualisation? Alberto and Simon chat with the team that makes it happen: Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag and Will Chase about how they work and what makes a project 'Axios'.
You can check out the midterms project the team worked on with Google Trends data here. Here are some more projects mentioned in the episode:
Variants tracker
1 million deaths
Poll worker map
Pie swarm
The music for this episode is based on Axios data visual requests, compiled by the team. It was built with TwoTone, a tool that turns data into music.
You can check out the midterms project the team worked on with Google Trends data here. Here are some more projects mentioned in the episode:
Variants tracker
1 million deaths
Poll worker map
Pie swarm
The music for this episode is based on Axios data visual requests, compiled by the team. It was built with TwoTone, a tool that turns data into music.
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