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# Awesome Interactive Journalism



An opinionated list of best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects. The goal of this list is **not to list all projects out there**, but to **list the most outstanding examples of visual and interactive journalism.** It is sorted by alphabet, so that there is no ranking.



## What makes an outstanding project?



1. It is well designed

2. It uses web technology in an innovative way

3. It introduces a new form of storytelling or visualization

4. It is based on costly data research or investigation

5. It engages users in a new way

6. It works well on all devices



## Maps



* [Aljazeera: Where would 10.8 million displaced Syrians fit?](http://projects.aljazeera.com/2013/syrias-refugees/)

* [Berliner Morgenpost: Europakarte](http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/europakarte/)

* [Buzzfeed: Spies in the skies](https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies)

* [The Guardian: Brexit full results and analysis](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-live-results-and-analysis)

* [The Guardian: Where can you afford to buy a house](https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/sep/02/unaffordable-country-where-can-you-afford-to-buy-a-house)

* [Kiln: Shipmap](http://shipmap.org/)

* [LA Times: Every Kobe Shot Ever](http://graphics.latimes.com/kobe-every-shot-ever/)

* [LA Times: Who gives money to Bernie Sanders?](http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-sanders-donors/)

* [National Geographic: Four Million Commutes Reveal new U.S. 'Megaregions'](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/us-commutes-reveal-new-economic-megaregions-map/)

* [New York Times: The Best and Worst places to grow up](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-best-and-worst-places-to-grow-up-how-your-area-compares.html)

* [New York Times: How North Carolina Voted](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/north-carolina-presidential-election-precinct-maps.html)

* [New York Times: How Trump Reshaped the Election Map](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/how-trump-pushed-the-election-map-to-the-right.html)

* [New York Times: Mapping Segregation](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race-map.html)

* [New York Times: Inside Raqqa](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/21/world/middleeast/inside-raqqa-capital-of-isis.html)

* [Politibot: Así se ha desplomado el PSE](https://politibot.es/interactivo/caida-pse-pais-vasco-25s/)

* [Pudding: The shape of slavery](https://pudding.cool/2017/01/shape-of-slavery/)

* [SPLC: Hate Map](https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map)

* [Washington Post: How Trump Redrew the Electoral Map](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/election-results-from-coast-to-coast/)

* [Zeit Online: A nation divided](http://www.zeit.de/feature/mauerfall-das-geteilte-land)



## Storytelling



* [Adam Westbrook: The Divorce](http://journal.adamwestbrook.co.uk/thedivorce/)

* [Berliner Morgenpost: M29](http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/m29/)

* [Bloomberg: What's causing global warming](http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/)

* [Dyslexia](http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea)

* [FiveThirtyEight: Gun Deaths](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/)

* [Poor Millennials](http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/)

* [National Geographic: MUAC](https://www.lucasinfografia.com/MUAC)

* [New York Times: Michael Phelps vs. Himself](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/09/sports/olympics/2016-08-09-olympics-phelps-vs-phelps.html)

* [New York Times: Snowfall](http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/)

* [Pitch Interactive: Out of Sight, out of Mind](http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/)

* [The Guardian: Usain Bolt Replay](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2016/aug/20/how-usain-bolt-secured-the-triple-treble-with-jamaica-in-the-4x100m)

* [The Guardian: Donald Trump's first 100 days](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/jan/20/donald-trump-first-100-days-president-daily-updates)

* [The Guardian: NSA files: Decoded](https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded)

* [Wall Street Journal: Blue Feed, Red Feed](http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/)

* [Washington Post: Raising Barriers](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/global-illegal-immigration-prevention/)

* [Quartz: Map of the internet](http://qz.com/se/map-of-the-internet/)



## Immersive Journalism



* [National Geographic: The New New York Skyline](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/new-york-city-skyline-tallest-midtown-manhattan/)

* [New York Times: 3D Yield Curve](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html)

* [New York Times: Dear Architects: Sound Matters](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/29/arts/design/sound-architecture.html)

* [New York Times: Reshaping New York](http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new-york/)

* [New York Times: The Dawn Wall](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/the-dawn-wall-el-capitan.html)

* [New York Times VR App](http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/nytvr/)

* [The Guardian: Homan Square](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-detainees)

* [The Guardian: Solitary Confinement](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/27/6x9-a-virtual-experience-of-solitary-confinement)

* [The Guardian: The London Skyline of Tomorrow](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of-london-skyline-of-tomorrow-interactive)

* [Wall Street Journal: Is the Nasdaq in another Bubble?](http://graphics.wsj.com/3d-nasdaq/)



## Interactives



* [Bloomberg: What is Code?](http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/)

* [FiveThirtyEight: How the Internet talks](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/)

* [Kim Albrecht: Trump Connections](http://trump.kimalbrecht.com/network/)

* [New York Times: Can you beat Usain Bolt out of the Blocks?](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/13/sports/olympics/can-you-beat-usain-bolt-out-of-the-blocks.html)

* [New York Times: Spot the Ball](http://projects.nytimes.com/interactive/sports/worldcup/spot-the-ball/2014/06/17)

* [New York Times: You Draw It](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/28/upshot/you-draw-it-how-family-income-affects-childrens-college-chances.html)

* [The Fallen of World War II](http://www.fallen.io/ww2/)

* [The Guardian: Are you reflected in the new congress?](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2014/nov/06/-sp-congress-diversity-women-race-lgbt-are-you-represented)

* [The Guardian: Can you guess the voter turnout in your state?](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/oct/11/voter-turnout-presidential-election-states-2012-2016)

* [The Guardian: How well do you know your country?](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/dec/02/how-well-do-you-really-know-your-country-take-our-quiz)

* [The Guardian: Rio Run](riorun.theguardian.com)

* [The Guardian: What do you call a person who moves to another country in search of a better life?](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2015/aug/28/words-migrant-refugee-immigration)

* [Wall Street Journal: Are you good enough to be a Tennis Line Judge?](http://graphics.wsj.com/are-you-good-enough-to-be-a-tennis-line-judge/)

* [Washington Post: DNC Emoji Reactions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/dnc-emoji-reactions/)



## Visualizations



* [Bloomberg: Billionaires](http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2016-09-27/cya)

* [Bloomberg: How Red Meat Joined the 478 Other Things That Might Give You Cancer](http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-red-meat-cancer/)

* [Dear Data](http://www.dear-data.com/)

* [Financial Times: A visual history of women's Tennis](https://ig.ft.com/sites/visual-history-of-womens-tennis/)

* [Financial Times: Is urban cycling worth the risk?](https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/)

* [Histography](http://histography.io/)

* [National Geographic: Sizing up Sharks](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/06/shark-species-family-tree-ocean-ecosystem-predator/)

* [New York Times: All Races on the same scale](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/20/sports/olympics/gold-medal-racing-speeds-on-the-same-scale.html)

* [New York Times: How could Trumps immigration Ban work?](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/22/us/politics/trump-immigration-ban-how-could-it-work.html)

* [New York Times: How Syrians are dying](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/14/world/middleeast/syria-war-deaths.html)

* [New York Times: How they got their guns](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.html)

* [New York Times: The 273 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html)

* [New York Times: Visual History of Summer Olympics](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/sports/olympics/history-olympic-dominance-charts.html)

* [Polygraph: The entire history of Kickstarter](http://polygraph.cool/kickstarter/)

* [R2D3: A visual intro to machine learning](http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/)

* [South China Morning Post: Front Pages Analysis](http://www.lucasinfografia.com/Front-pages-analysis)

* [The Guardian: What's the world scared of?](https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2015/jul/17/interactive-whats-the-world-scared-of)

* [Washington Post: A decade of Trumps imports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-products/)

* [Washington Post: Most of Trump's charts skew the data](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charts/)

* [Washington Post: Sizing up the Olympics](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/sports/olympics/scale-of-the-olympics/)

* [Washington Post: The Depth of the Problem](http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/)

* [Quartz: Every active satellite orbiting earth](http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth/)



## Investigations



* [Airbnb vs Berlin](http://www.airbnbvsberlin.de/)

* [Buzzfeed: The Tennis Racket](https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket)

* [FiveThirtyEight: A Plagiarism Scandal is unfolding in the Crossword world](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/)

* [Marshall Project: The Next to die](https://www.themarshallproject.org/next-to-die)

* [New York Times: How the nominees' convention speeches compare](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/29/us/elections/trump-clinton-pence-kaine-speeches.html)

* [ProPublica: Machine Bias](https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing)

* [ProPublica: What Facebook knows about you](https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you)

* [SZ: The Panama Papers](http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/)

* [The Guardian: The Counted](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database)

* [The Intercept: The Android Administration](https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/)

* [Washington Post: A visual history of Donald Trump dominating the news cycle](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/donald-trump-vs-hillary-clinton-in-media/)

* [Washington Post: Fatal Force](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/)



## Drone / Satellite



* [Berliner Morgenpost: Das sind Deutschlands grünste Großstädte](http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/gruenste-staedte-deutschlands/)

* [New York Times: Greenland is melting away](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html)

* [New York Times: Living in China's Expanding Deserts](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html)

* [New York Times: What China has been building in the South China Sea](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea-2016.html)

* [ProPublica: Las Vegas Growth Map](https://projects.propublica.org/las-vegas-growth-map/)

* [ProPublica: Losing Ground](https://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/)

* [SRF: Gotthard Tunnel 360](http://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/gotthard/tauchen-sie-ein-in-den-neuen-tunnel)

* [The Guardian: Corals, South China Sea](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/sep/17/south-china-sea-images-reveal-impact-on-coral-of-beijings-military-bases)

* [The Intercept: Visualising the U.S.-Mexico Border](https://theintercept.com/2016/10/18/best-of-luck-with-the-wall/)



## Who to follow



* [Aaron Bycoffe](https://twitter.com/bycoffe)

* [Adam Pearce](https://twitter.com/adamrpearce)

* [Alberto Cairo](https://twitter.com/albertocairo)

* [Alberto Lucas Lopez](https://twitter.com/aLucasLopez)

* [Alexandra Wisniewska](https://twitter.com/alekswis)

* [Allison McCann](https://twitter.com/atmccann)

* [Amanda Cox](https://twitter.com/amandacox)

* [Amanda Hickman](https://twitter.com/amandabee)

* [Andrew Flowers](https://twitter.com/andrewflowers)

* [Andy Kirk](https://twitter.com/visualisingdata)

* [Brian Boyer](https://twitter.com/brianboyer)

* [Cheryl Phillips](https://twitter.com/cephillips)

* [Chris Groskopf](https://twitter.com/onyxfish)

* [Christopher Möller](https://twitter.com/chrtze)

* [David Bauer](https://twitter.com/davidbauer)

* [David Yanofsky](https://twitter.com/YAN0)

* [Derek Willis](https://twitter.com/derekwillis)

* [Elijah Meeks](https://twitter.com/Elijah_Meeks)

* [Erik Hinton](https://twitter.com/erikhinton)

* [Gregor Aisch](https://twitter.com/driven_by_data)

* [Hans Hack](https://twitter.com/hnshck)

* [Jan Willem Tulp](https://twitter.com/JanWillemTulp)

* [Jason Davies](https://twitter.com/jasondavies)

* [Jeremy Bowers](https://twitter.com/jeremybowers)

* [Jeremy Singer-Vine](https://twitter.com/jsvine)

* [John Burn-Murdoch](https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch)

* [Joshua Hatch](https://twitter.com/hatchjt)

* [Julian Schmidli](https://twitter.com/julianschmidli)

* [Julia Wolfe](https://twitter.com/juruwolfe)

* [Julius Tröger](https://twitter.com/juliustroeger)

* [Kendall Taggart](https://twitter.com/kendallttaggart)

* [Lena Groeger](https://twitter.com/lenagroeger)

* [Lisa Charlotte Rost](https://twitter.com/lisacrost)

* [Maarten Lambrechts](https://twitter.com/maartenzam)

* [Mara Averick](https://twitter.com/dataandme)

* [Martin Burch](https://twitter.com/seecmb)

* [Martín González](https://twitter.com/martgnz)

* [Martin Stabe](https://twitter.com/martinstabe)

* [Matt Waite](https://twitter.com/mattwaite)

* [Michael Corey](https://www.twitter.com/mikejcorey)

* [Mike Bostock](https://twitter.com/mbostock)

* [Moritz Klack](https://twitter.com/moklick)

* [Moritz Stefaner](https://twitter.com/moritz_stefaner)

* [Nadieh Bremer](https://twitter.com/NadiehBremer)

* [Nate Silver](https://twitter.com/natesilver538)

* [Nathan Yau](https://twitter.com/flowingdata)

* [Nicholas Rougeux](https://twitter.com/rougeux)

* [Patrick Stotz](https://twitter.com/PatrickStotz)

* [Ritchie King](https://twitter.com/RitchieSKing)

* [Sarah Cohen](https://twitter.com/sarahcnyt)

* [Scott Klein](https://twitter.com/kleinmatic)

* [Sisi Wei](https://twitter.com/sisiwei)

* [Ted Han](https://twitter.com/tedhan)

* [Timo Grossenbacher](https://twitter.com/grssnbchr)

* [Tom Meagher](https://twitter.com/ultracasual)

* [Tom Pearson](https://twitter.com/tomp)

* [Walter Hickey](https://twitter.com/WaltHickey)



## Portfolios



* [AP Interactive](https://twitter.com/AP_Interactive)

* [Berliner Morgenpost](http://www.morgenpost.de/interaktiv/)

* [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/infographics/)

* [BuzzFeedNews](https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything)

* [Datasketch.es](http://www.datasketch.es/)

* [FiveThirtyEight](https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight)

* [Guardian Visuals](https://twitter.com/GuardianVisuals)

* [Graphics Departments Twitter List (collection)](https://twitter.com/archietse/lists/graphics-departments)

* [Interactive Things](https://twitter.com/IXT)

* [Kiln](https://twitter.com/k_i_l_n)

* [LA Times Data Desk](https://twitter.com/LATdatadesk)

* [New York Times interactive Projects 2013](http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/12/30/year-in-interactive-storytelling/)

* [New York Times interactive Projects 2014](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html)

* [New York Times interactive Projects 2015](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html)

* [NZZ Storytelling](https://twitter.com/NZZStorytelling)

* [Polygraph](http://polygraph.cool/)

* [ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/data/)

* [SRF Data](http://www.srf.ch/data)

* [Tulp Interactive](http://tulpinteractive.com/)

* [Washington Post Graphics](https://twitter.com/PostGraphics)

* [Webkid](http://webkid.io/)

* [Zeit Online](http://zeit.de/datenjournalismus)