Trump and Brexit Proved This Book Prophetic — What Calamity Will Befall Us Next?

"Fifty years ago, society was organized according to the industrial model. People were passive recipients of information. It was a top-down system with limited choices or diversity. You could buy two or three different types of cars and get your information from two or three different television channels and newspapers. This system produced a relatively … Continue reading Trump and Brexit Proved This Book Prophetic — What Calamity Will Befall Us Next?

How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R

"Over the past year, data journalists on the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team have fundamentally changed how they produce graphics for publication on the BBC News website. In this post, we explain how and why we have used R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts, document our process and code and share what we … Continue reading How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R