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• From Amy: Hi Amanda, When is it OK to put the big findings or hint to them in the readout to highlight them? Or should you leave findings for the users to find on their own?
• From Ted Han: Which comes first, the data set, or the question being asked/answered? (or do they evolve together iteratively? or does it depend on circumstance?)
• From Laurian: If you have data, what tools you usually use to explore it before discovering how to make a visualisation (before knowing the question, the interesting pattern)? [What do you use to get a sense of it?]
• From Juan: can you think of any great visualizations that have been built on video? (not delivered through video, but using video as the element of visualization)
• From Amy: How much does "shelf life" play a role in what you choose to spend time on, especially with breaking news?
• From Ted Han: How many people participate in designing an analysis? How does that affect the "sketching" process?
• From Regnard: What books/resources did you read & study when you started in the NY Times? What stuff do you recommend to know more about data visualization for beginners/novices?
• From Corbin: What tools were used for this data mapping for the pitching data?
• From Artem: What technical tools are used the most?
• From Jordan: If data visualization and journalism can't be templated, is there still a way to use patterns to help people learn to be better data journalists?
• From Mark: Amanda, do any of your online graphics use live or regularly-updated data, placed on resource pages rather than attached to a dated story, so they better draw sustained reader interest?
• From Alan: For dataviz, lots of people say Edward Tufte is mandatory readung, but it's kinda old-ish, are there more current books to be read?
• Followup from ted: If you've got an idea in mind, where do you go to see what other people have used to display similar sorts of data? Put another way, what are the building blocks for sketching?
• From Julien: Are you looking at webGL and SVG? Or is flash still totally mandatory?
• Also from Julien: What are the commons errors in data viz? How can data viz can be misleading in your opinion?
• From Phillipp: Is there a public database of political districts mapped to geographies & politicians? Thinking of something like geolocated tweet responses on election night.
• From Laurian: Do you believe that newspapers should link back to the data behind a visualisation, such that somebody else can build a different visualisation? remix it with other data, etc.
• From Saleem: How much of these visualizations are custom-coded or use custome tools, and what are the best tools that are openly available?
• From Jason: What tools to scrape the data? and how long do these data-intensive projects take?
• From Manuel: What are the friction points during the production of data visualization? What is key for a tool be accepted?
• From Shaminder: From inception of an idea to publication, how long is the process and how many never make it to print?
• Also from Shaminder: QAny opinion on the luanch of visua.ly yesterday and what it means for popularity/respect for graphics?
• From Kevin: What tools are you using to create these graphics? What's the standard development time after the idea is solidified?