How media is visualizing the 'Cablegate'

It's being the scoop of the year. Wikileaks protagonized the biggest leak in history, with the help of many of the biggest media in the world, which received the information and worked on its edition until they published the results today.And some of them worked on infographics and visualizations.

Click on images to access the interactives

One of the most visual was the german Der Spiegel. An 'cable atlas' with the places and grade of confidenciality of the leaks.

The Guardian worked on a flash, not an infographic itself, but a database with some visual details. Maybe the most useful piece I've found on the topic. And, with this piece, an image with another 'atlas'.

The New York Times, maybe the best media working with infographics, did not used infographics this time. They published the documents with a navigation system.

In Spain, El País used a static image with a 'heat map' of the leaks and a simple, but very useful piece, on how to read the documents

As usual, if you know any other visualization, just tell me and I'll publish it. Anyway, this is just the beginning.

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Barcelona-Real Madrid: stats for the day before

Tomorrow monday is one of the most importants day for spanish sports-fans: the two main soccer-football teams Barcelona and Real Madrid have one of their two annual confrontations. Some years ago, this was the big chance for infographics depatments to publish a big infographics with the line-ups, big photos or illustrations with the starts, some details of the tactics... Nowadays, data is the big deal here. We have so much information that we try to find the hidden keys, numeric details that can decide the match o rjust little curiosities for the supporters.
This year there's also a big difference: this match is always played on saturday or sunday, but this year will be on monday, so we have all the weekend to fill up the sport pages with information about something that has not happened yet. So stats are something great to offer in pills during the weekend.

Som examples. It may not be very polite, but I'll start with what I've done for lainformacion.com:

- An infographic with stats for all the players of both teams, where the reader can choose which kind of data can be visualized.
- Some posts on the data & visualization blog A Base de Datos:
         - Cristiano Ronaldo is the half of Messi
         - Cristiano is the one who suffer more fouls, Xavi is the one who deserves them the less
         - Real Madrid steals more balls, Barcelona looses less

Público. One of the newspapers where infographics seize all the possibilities of data. A pair of example by Artur Galocha:

The two cents of the main spanish sports newspapers, Marca:

The first one, this comparison between the two biggests stars: Messi and Ronaldo.
The second one, a comparison of all the players of the match, and them with the rest of the league:

Sport, the sports catalan newspapers, also publish the match by the numbers, but rather tables than infographic:

The other catalan sports newspaper, El Mundo Deportivo, publish this piece:

And just one more detail: a design detail on the web of the generalist Barcelona newspaper El Periódico:

These are just some examples, if you know any other, just send it to me and I'll publish it.

UPDATE
One more example, an infographic by Jorge Galofre for El Universal (Venezuela).  Thanks to Nicolás for sending it.

And another one: Konstantinos Antonopoulos for the greek sports newspaper Exedra

Visual subjectivity (II)

Time ago, I posted an infographic published on The New York Times, not ellaborated by its infographics team, but by a visual artist called Andrew Kuo, who explained the Lollapalooza Festival of 92 as he remembered it.






It was something different, an application of infographics not using data or objective information, but feelings, opinions and ideas.

Now I discover through Innovations In Newspapers that La Vanguardia gets into this new adventure with Shakira's concert.

Well, it's something you can expect from a department with a chief as Jaime Serra, so involved in visual subjectivity. La Vanguardia example is not so artistic, is more attached to data and objective info (something I, personally, prefer). But it's a different approach, and I say thanks for that.

Far East infographics: the best and the worst

Through Roberto Belo, I see these two infographics from Far East. One really good, and one bad. As we use in Spain, I start with the bad one:

An interactive by MSN in Asia, reminds me the print infographics of the First Gulf War: big weapons over the map, and nothing else. Click on image to see it in action. I think I can't say it's bad. It's bad for me, in my culture, maybe that's the way things work in the opposite corner of the globe, so maybe I've risked too much calificating it.

Now the good on. Some may not consider this an infographic, but I do. A kind of Beijing Google Maps, but by the chinese  Baidu. Sim City style, clear, and with information layers on the buildings: easy to work with it and very clean. Great. Click on image to watch it in action.

Some sentences from ÑH07

ÑH07 is a summit taking place yesterday and today in Valencia (Spain), about news graphics and design. These are some of the sentences pronounced there (as I remember or as I understood them, sorry if there's any little mistake). I'll be updating them.

 Francesco Franchi, art director IL

Infographics are about combine and organize data to tell stories. (...) They're design and narrative: journalism

Jared Cocken, creative director at thewonderfactory.com

We've got to humanize information, make it nicer, more visual and easier to find

Alfredo Triviño, new projects art director at NewsCorp

Avatar, the iPad and Kinect have initiated a new era. They have been capable to transform physical actions and emotions to the digital world.

Paadín, from lamosca design studio

We believe in the balance between pure and simple graphics and pure aesthetics, but achieving this balance is a constant struggle

 Nicholas Felton (The Feltron Report)

More detailed data promote better stories