“I tried to deal with numbers as professional as I could. But behind these, there were people, and I couldn’t run away from it” says Ferran Morales

What should we ask to the data? What is data telling us? And what is actually not telling?

Ferran Morales showing infographics from Zainab’ story

Ferran Morales, data journalist and graphic designer at El Mundo Deportivo, explains his challenge on processing refugees data to map The story of Zainab, an 11 years-old Syrian refugee girl and her family that had to leave their home because of the war in 2011.

This project was created by a group of people from Media Lab Prado under the Visualizar 2017, a workshop for prototyping data visualisation projects.

2016 represented in 12 vines

2016 has presented changes on politics, technology and successes: England vote the Brexit, Trump won the battle to Hillary; virtual reality depicted the Mobile World Congress, journalists got together to release the Panama Papers, and famous people such as David Bowie or Alan Rickman passed away.

Another app that said goodbye this year is Vine. This service was founded in 2012, offering a six second looping video that could be shared on Twitter and Facebook.

I’ve selected 12 incidents, one for each month of the year, with a video published on Vine to say bye to this year: