Iraq War: What the Numbers Can Tell Us

Numerical analysis sounds boring to most and way too complicated to nearly all news organizations. But the advent of multimedia and interactives means that facts and figures can and should be made accessible and exciting. Here is a TED talk using simple Power Point. The topic and research are so affective that I am just gripped [...]

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

Numerical information is becoming more and more important in news reporting. This is not only due to interactive web abilities (I’ll write another post on this) but because big news is news of scale. For instance, the floods in Pakistan are now being put into context with figures. The number of people suffering from the [...]