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An Analysis of the Data Visulization in the Story of Australian Nauru Files

Author of the Story: the guardian

The story is about: Back in July, 2016. The largest cache of documents was leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention Nauru regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm. The Guardian analyzed the files and later provided the audience with an in-depth, intereactive data story. As showed below, each of these squares is an incident report written by staff in Australia’s detention centre on Nauru between 2013 and 2015. The reports are categorised by severity and type.

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Advantages of this piece of data journalism work:

Highly intereactive:

Sufficient text explaination:

Powerful visualization to provide the audience with the big image of Nauru detention center's situation in Australia

Disadvantages of this story:

A bit overwhaleming with the amount of information

Not suitable for normal audience who does not seek for an detail analysis of the Nauru files

Possible improvements

Combine data with text explainations

Summary the data with charts like this:

Read the text summary of the Nauru files story here

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