We are looking for data nerds to feature in our Pondcast series!
Would you like to share cool tool or workflow with us? Or is there someone you would like to see share theirs?
Get in touch & share! π πΈ

We are looking for data nerds to feature in our Pondcast series!
Would you like to share cool tool or workflow with us? Or is there someone you would like to see share theirs?
Get in touch & share! π πΈ
π How Transit Barometer Builds Its Archive
Transit Barometerβs archive began on 25 July 2026 β so nothing before that date exists in its own series.
π Read the methodology:
TransitBarometer.com/methodology/
#TransitBarometer #Methodology #TravelData #DataJournalism #DataTransparency
What does 115% stretcher occupancy mean? It means more patients are in the ER than the number of functional stretchers available.
π See the full regional breakdown:
TransitBarometer.com/er-wait-times/
#TransitBarometer #ERWaitTimes #Quebec #EmergencyRoom #canada #datajournalism #HealthData
Credits: Credits: @evidentmedia.org , Icetracking. org, Forbidden Stories, @france24.com, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and Human Rights Center.
@ Michael Sparks
The worldβs five busiest airports in 2025, ranked by total passengers with transit counted once.
See the full ranking and methodology:
transitbarometer.com/busiest-airports/world/
#TransitBarometer #BusiestAirports #AirportRankings #AviationData #AirTravel #AirportTraffic #DataJournalism #Aviation
Three airport lists. Three different ways of counting passengers. βοΈ
See exactly what each list counts:
transitbarometer.com/busiest-airports/
#Aviation #airports #Travel #airtravel #FlightData #DataJournalism #aviationnews #busiestairports #airportrankings #airtraffic #transitbarometer #traveldata
New in the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: "The UMAP Isn't the Territory" by Michela Tjan openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-umap-i... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
See all our courses and tutorials: openvisualizationacademy.org
Journalists in Burundi have been urged to move beyond crisis reporting and embrace human-centred, data-driven environmental journalism.
Read more: π
English: shorturl.at/p5G58
French: shorturl.at/35Am1
#DataJournalism #ClimateReporting #WaterAndSanitation #MediaTraining
Want to use Transit Barometer data in your article, broadcast, or project? π
Measured. Sourced. Free to cite.
Learn more: transitbarometer.com/how-to-cite/
#TransitBarometer #Data #OpenData #CreativeCommons #DataJournalism #Journalism #PublicData #Research
Average wait and average when delayed tell two very different stories.
Read the methodology: transitbarometer.com/methodology/
#TransitBarometer #TransitData #WaitTimes #AverageWait #BorderWaitTimes #TravelData #TransportationData #DataJournalism #DataAnalytics #DataInsights #DataVisualization
How AI is reshaping data journalism - @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/prompts...
#ArtificialIntelligence #datajournalism #storytelling
In @gijn.org's latest Top 10 in #datajournalism column, we look at the AfD's popularity on TikTok (after its recent electoral success in Saxon-Anhalt), how the US-Iran War is realigning Indi's imports of cooking gas, & a 3D visualization of the glacier collapse that caused the massive Nepal flood.
βοΈ Canadaβs Busiest Airports β 2025
See the full ranking: TransitBarometer.com/busiest-airports/canada/
Not affiliated with Statistics Canada.
#transitbarometer #busiestairports #canadaairports #torontopearson #vancouverairport #montrealairport #calgaryairport #canadianaviation #datajournalism
We mapped 20 sports-infrastructure projects & interventions documented between 2023 and 30 July 2026 across Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Click the map. Examine each project. Open the evidence.
#GoalsInOccupiedLands #DataJournalism #BridgesInvestigations
Thoughts about GenAI & design in the newsletter: "Cognitive augmentation, cognitive surrender, and oblivious centaurs" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/cognitive-... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
β½π NEW: GOALS IN OCCUPIED LANDS β THE DATA
We're opening up the evidence behind our investigation through a new interactive series:
π° Money
ποΈ Infrastructure
β½ Clubs
ποΈ FIFA/UEFA governance
π
First: FOLLOW THE MONEY π
#GoalsInOccupiedLands #DataJournalism
bridges-investigations.com/2026/09/02/g...