VISUALIZING NEWS

MAKE IT WORK

G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s

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RQ

What are the

decisive factors

that make news

visualizations

work for the

different people

involved?

METHOD

Literature study

Expert interviews

Case studies

RESULTS

Individual• skills

Groups• mindset

Organization• structure

SKILLS

writing

designing

programming

data mining

MINDSET

frustrating hierarchy

no common language

lack of common ground

STRUCTURE

pace

linearity

distance

support

CONCLUSION

storyvisualtext

skillsmindset

structure

THANK YOU

G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s

University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the

Netherlands

gerard.smit@hu.nl