The infographic is one of the outcomes from a preliminary study commissioned by the collective at Datajournalism.it to understand how to take advantage of data visualization for their activities.

Datajournalism.it was born in 2012 from an idea of the jounalists ​​Guido Romeo and Elisabetta Tola and lives today thanks to the work and support of formicablu (a long time client of mine, with whom I worked for example also on Chromic and SMART-map Horizon 2020 European projects). Datajournalism.it works on one hand as an on-line news hub, but it doesn’t stop there as its passionate team also creates and provides contents for other important national news outlets, telling stories that start from data, and use data to connect pieces of experience, information elements, and narratives that focus on people.

Together we started a strategic investigation process to understand how to implement and leverage design and visualization in their activities. I conducted an analysis on how the most prominent news outlets use data visualization in conjunction with their journalism activities.  This preliminary study informed us on some principles and ideas to design a first concept visualization for Datajournalism with the aim of creating a very flexible format, that would be able to live on different channels, maximizing the power of social media diffusion.

The concept visualization here presented is the first experimental output from this work. It was created in 2017 to accompany an article published by AGI – Agenzia Giornalistica Italia on the upcoming 41st Ironman World Championship, the most important event of the famous long distance triathlon competition, taking place on October 14, 2017 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.