Project 3, Lede Program 2023
This repository has a dataset and HTML code for my third project in the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University.
I attempted to develop a new and impactful visualization using the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) data. The goal was to allow the reader to feel (and not only to understand logically) how severe is the violation of press freedom in some countries around the world. The project follows a concept: The main visualization emulates a crowded room, and the charts and map have a blueprint style.
All the data used in the project comes from the monitoring carried out by CPJ. You can access the database here.
As it is a visualization project, my main challenges were related to using D3.js to create and activate tooltips on the map. It took me a while to understand how to do it, and I still don't know how to prevent some countries from overlapping with them—this is a work in progress.
During the project, I improved my abilities to use Adobe Illustrator to create interesting data visualizations, learned more about AI2HTML, CSS, and D3.js.