journalism, social networks

Podemos, last to be born and fourth at the polls

Podemos, a left-wing political party in Spain, was founded in March 2014 by Pablo Iglesias after the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption.

On Sunday, Spain holds general elections where bipartisanship seems to have vanished after Ciudadanos (also called Citizens or the Podemos of the right) and Podemos presence at the polls:

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journalism, social networks

Instagram, a community for igers and microblog for the media

Instagram was launched in 2010. After a year, 10 million people were using it and on September 2015, this platform recorded 400 million monthly active users. In the United Kingdom, 14 million people use Instagram every month.

Instagram numbers

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data journalism, data visualization, infographic

IIBS: Best visualisation 2015 doesn’t use a computer

David McCandless announced the winners of the fourth Kantar Information is Beautiful (IIBS) Awards last Wednesday in London.

Projects were submitted into 13 different categories: Data VisualizationInfographicInteractive VisualizationMotion InfographicFree ToolDataviz WebsiteData JournalismDataviz ProjectMini-visualizationCommercial Studio, Commercial Client Project, Internal Business Project.

Other awards given during the event went to Best Team, Individual Achievement, Student, Community Vote and the Most Beautiful award.

Below is a map with all the winners’ location and awards:Tweet this

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