In Graphic Detail: How The Economist Creates Its Data Journalism

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Reflection on Graphic Detail Discussion Webinar
The webinar in focus involves three individuals, including Nauta, the host, and two other experts, a graphic detail expert, Alex, and a journalist named Rose. The main discussion in the webinar is majorly on the evolution of graphic details on how it has changed over time. The panelists in the webinar also discuss how the graph illustrations have been transformed and used to illustrate different data, from the COVID-19 vaccine's efficacy levels to human perception of music and other data on the reception of the COVID-19 vaccine among the general public. Alex provides insights into how the graphic illustrations are developed and how they could obtain data on matters, such as the COVID 19, that had no readily available data until the virus was declared a pandemic. The webinar also provides illustrations on how election polls are designed and illustrated to the viewers through the graphs with the relevant example of the recently concluded United States general election.
What stands out from the webinar is the transformation that the graphical illustrations have undergone with time. Data journalist, Alex, explains how the 1950's data charts were difficult to read as the details were not well established before the blue background bar graphs came into place in the 1990s. Through the webinar, one can learn how the eventual detailed graphical illustrations that included regional maps were invented by improving the previous charts and graphs. The webinar is quite exciting and as it enlightens viewers on the field of data that is not widely covered or discussed in the mainstream despite being a key element in journalism. This is because commercial reporting rarely lacks a graphical illustration, hence under...