DiscoverThe Data Journalism PodcastHow Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism
How Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism

How Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism

Update: 2022-09-15
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The Axios team have spearheaded 'smart brevity', but how does that apply to data journalism and data visualisation? Alberto and Simon chat with the team that makes it happen: Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag and Will Chase about how they work and what makes a project 'Axios'. 


You can check out the midterms project the team worked on with Google Trends data here.  Here are some more projects mentioned in the episode:


Variants tracker


1 million deaths


Poll worker map


Pie swarm


The music for this episode is based on Axios data visual requests, compiled by the team. It was built with TwoTone, a tool that turns data into music.

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How Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism

How Axios brings smart brevity to data journalism

Alberto Cairo & Simon Rogers