A compilation of final projects completed by students in the Fall 2014 data visualization course at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Instructor: Peter Aldhous; thanks also to J-School lecturer Jeremy Rue for help and advice to students.
I mapped gunshots detected by the Shotspotter detection system and calls from the public reporting gunfire.
Sources: Oakland Police Department and OpenOakland.
View ProjectGraphics showing the relative distribution over time of the 100 names with the biggest shifts between men and women.
Source: Social Security Administration.
View ProjectInteractive map: Circles show the top 20 ports worldwide, scaled by volume of container traffic; tracks show shipping voyages in 2007.
Sources: World Bank, World Shipping Council, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
View ProjectLine graph comparing how Nicaragua fares against its closest neighbors in economic development over the years.
Source: World Bank.
View ProjectBar chart comparing the Human Development Index of countries in the Western Hemisphere. Nicaragua has the second lowest.
Source: United Nations Development Programme.
View ProjectIn 1992, 699,000 people in the region were infected with HIV; by 2011 there were 4 million. This is a portrait of the epidemic and responses to it.
Source: UNAIDS.
View ProjectSince Billy Beane became the A’s general manager in 1998, he has turned the club into a perennial playoff team despite a low payroll budget.
Sources: Lahman’s Baseball Database, MLB.com and Baseball-reference.com.
View ProjectWhile San Francisco’s crime rates ebb and flow from year to year, their locations remain more or less the same.
Source: San Francisco Police Department.
View ProjectWashington state ranks highest in the nation for reported allegations against prison staff, both in total and per 1,000 inmates.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice and Washington Department of Corrections.
View ProjectAn exploration of the topics covered and the sentiments expressed in the annual presidential address to Congress and the nation.
Source: Policy Agendas Project.
View ProjectWhich venture capitalists backed which startups, and with how much cash? Explore with this visualization.
Source: CrunchBase.
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