When you can’t find the right words, sometimes Beyoncé can help. Or SpongeBob. Or any of the pop culture icons who’ve been turned into GIFs by denizens of the web. Using search insights from Google’s visual expression search engine, Tenor, we broke down how celebrities are used to convey emotions…

What does data sound like? There are two reasons why this can matter. Firstly, all these visuals are excluding anyone with any kind of visual disability from accessing them. Secondly we are always looking for new ways to visualise data. Sound opens up a whole new world of possibilities. To…

Interested in data journalism and where it’s going? Today is the launch of the first part of the new Data Journalism Handbook. We announced that we would be supporting a new version of the Data Journalism Handbook with the European Journalism Centre last year. Since then the editors, Liliana Bounegru…

Twin Peaks is one of the best places to view the whole San Francisco Bay area — the two adjacent peaks visible from all over the city. It doesn’t need a single adornment, but head up there today and you should be able to find a new addition: a sculpture…

Sometimes a bar chart just won’t do. Sometimes you want to see data presented in a new way, a way it just hasn’t been shown as before. That’s where Morph comes in. Morph is a brand new tool, built by data studio Datavized, to allow anyone to create their own…

This is the introduction I wrote to a new book from the excellent data team at Paris Match, published in French. Check out the project here. What’s in a word? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The fortunes of a political campaign can turn with a single word. The…

Há pouco mais de um ano, nós disponibilizamos dados Google Trends em tempo real; e, de maneira crescente, isso está ajudando pessoas ao redor do mundo a explorar reações globais a grandes eventos. A vasta quantidade de buscas — trilhões são feitas todos os anos — faz do Google Trends…

When it comes to restaurants, every US city has a unique identity. Austin, TX is renowned for its BBQ. New York City is densely packed with pizza-by-the-slice. San Francisco and LA compete on taqueria prestige. Using Google data, visualized by Google News Lab with design studio Polygraph, we can begin…

The Data Journalism Awards are launched today. You can find out more about them here. This is the first chapter of a new book on data, visuals and journalism — you can get Visual Journalism on Amazon — The world moves fast and so does the news. So when you mix journalism with maybe the fastest moving space — technology — things change even faster. Data journalism has come a long way since I wrote this piece identifying the key traits of the field. And it has never…