#46: Data journalism and the 2021 jealousy list

Hi there, I’ll be taking a little break over the holiday period but will be back in January with more things to share.

Enjoy this week’s newsletter and the holidays!

💩 Cool shit

Remote Experience Generator - I remember finding this back at the start of the pandemic and recently re-found it. With the Omicron variant spreading this felt like a helpful link to share for the holidays.

Web3 is going just great - A fun timeline of all the grifting in crypto.

Unfiltered History Tour - An unofficial guide to the British Museum exploring disputed artefacts.

VirtualBeeb - An interactive 3D model of the BBC Micro computer. With the sound on there’s some real satisfying clicky-ness to it.

Townscaper - The meditative game where you can build island towns, now playable in your browser.

Moments of Happiness - A cute and fun little webGL project.

FiveThirtyEight’s Our 51 Best (And Weirdest) Charts Of 2021 - Some data journalism at its finest.

💎 Word gems

Seen Read Heard 2021 (Morning Consult / Eli Yokley and Cameron Easley)

The FiveThirtyEight link above has some wonderful data visualizations, but this one is a truly stunning piece of data journalism. Explore which news stories people said they heard a lot about in 2021, and how that differs across party lines. It’s a stark look at the filter bubbles we live in.

When it came to mainstream political news stories, Republicans were generally less likely than Democrats to report high news consumption, especially when those stories had negative implications for the party or its leader. For example, Republicans were half as likely to say they heard a lot about a recording that revealed then-President Donald Trump had pressured Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to overturn Biden’s victory.

Jealousy List 2021 (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Of all the annual year-end articles, this is by far my favorite one. This one is worth exploring because it’s filled with a treasure trove of wonderful articles.

Sometimes we read, watch, or listen to something that we wish we had published. To recognize a job well done, the magazine’s staff and many of our contributors in the Bloomberg newsroom have compiled our annual yearend Jealousy List. Congratulations to those on this year’s list, we hate/love you. —The Editors

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