Site of the Day for Monday, September 26, 2016
Polygraph
Today's site, an award-winning publication, offers a different approach to
interesting subjects by using a highly visual orientation. Gentle Subscribers
will discover insights and conclusions not from prose analysis but through
graphic presentations.
"Polygraph is a publication that incites water cooler discussion about complex
topics. We avoid long-winded essays at all costs, using code, visuals, and
animation to construct a different sort of story, one that's often
reader-driven, embeddable, and open-source. ... We do this via code, design,
and animation rather than long-form prose." - from the website
With its determined emphasis on encompassing themes within a visual
perspective, the magazine provides contentious yet fascinating material in a
readily accessible form. Among the the current highlights are features on Film
Dialogue for 2,000 Screenplays -- Broken Down by Gender and Age, The Entire
History of Kickstarter Projects by City, and The Most-Watched YouTube Videos
from Trump & Clinton in Every American County as of July, 2016. Falling within
the realm of music are a number of riveting stories -- The Evolution of Music
Taste; Rappers -- Sorted by the Size of their Vocabularies; and Using Spotify
to Measure the Popularity of Older Music. In addition, an article by Polygraph
editor Matthew Daniels demonstrates the trends of the new "Journalist-Engineer"
by citing examples within mainstream media such as The New York Times and its
reach into academia as well.
March to the site to explore stories anchored in the visual presentation of
data at:
http://poly-graph.co/
A.M. Holm
Comments? Suggestions? amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx
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