Clara Fors Wisbyse

The example I have chosen is called “M29 – Berlin’s bus line of great differences”. Unfortunately the original article is in German but I found it so enchanting that I decided to translate it and use it anyway. You can find it by link here (open in google chrome to translate) or translated in attached pdf. It is also inspired by a piece in the “New Yorker: Inequality And New York’s Subway.”

In my opinion the authors use visualizations in a brilliant way to illustrate the bus line and how the life for people change along it. There is clear that it’s a lot of data behind the article, with several graphs showing ages, employment status and social situations among others. The graphs are all created in the same way and formed around the bus route M29 which makes it very easy to understand for the reader. There is also an element of interaction as the reader can hoover over each bus stop for the relevant data to show as well as click them and actually see the surroundings in video. A lot of data has been used to show something very interesting and important in a simple and attainable way. I would definitively say that this article use structured data to draw own conclusions with journalistic purpose around the living standards for people in different parts of Berlin.

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