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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

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How you look at data: Graphics vs. text

I came across a graphic showing hospital death rates in the United States (from USA Today), and I’d like to ask you to open it up and — as online folks like to say — play with it for a little while. Below are two screen captures (detail) to pique your interest, and below them, some discussion.

Comparison of Florida hospitals - click for full size
Above: Detail of the comparison of Florida hospitals, centered on Shands at the University of Florida.

Locations of Florida hospitals - click for full size
Above: Detail of the locations of Florida hospitals, centered on the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

So when you browse around within this hospitals graphic, think about your experience. Do you feel satisfied, do you want more, are you confused? These are some criteria by which we can judge the usefulness of an information graphic. (If you teach journalism, I suggest you do this little exercise with students — even in a lecture hall, they can call out what they want you to click and where they want you to go in the graphic.)

Now look at a different example, a database application showing FBI crime statistics (from The Florida Times-Union):

Database: FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Above: Results show violent crimes in Jacksonville, Florida, for 2006.

Compare your experience with the two databases — don’t forget to think about the database behind the hospitals graphic. Which one is more satisfying? Which one would you e-mail to a friend? Which one did you spend a longer amount of time with?

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This entry was posted on Friday, August 22, 2008, at 10:38 am and is filed under Flash, audiences, data, design, examples, graphics, interface, journalism, online, tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 responses to “How you look at data: Graphics vs. text”

  1. roberto villalpando writes:

    too often the preference for online databases is to publish what’s easiest for web sites to produce instead of what’s more fun to explore or “play with”

    thanks for pointing out the differences in the user experiences and why it’s significant. it’s an issue we have to always argue in the newsroom.

    August 22, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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