3 Great Examples of Data Journalism Stories

Over the last month I've been spending part of my free time learning about an emerging discipline in the areas of data analytics: Data Journalism. I am doing it, firstly because I find the combination "data analysis + journalism" very fascinating, but also because, as a Web Analyst I believe that there are some very important skills I can absorb from Data Journalists (here is a post where I talk about Web Analyst skills).

The aim of this post is to introduce you to this emerging discipline, and show you a couple of practical examples of data journalism. To do so, I've selected 3 published data journalism stories and analysed each of them by answering four key questions:

1. What does the story do?
2. How was it created (methodology)? 
3. How was it illustrated?
4. What technologies were used to create and present the story to readers?