A video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium. Produced by Geoff McGhee during a Knight Journalism Fellowship. Total running time: 54 minutes; with related information and links. A variety of open-source tools enable users to upload data files and generate a wide range of visualizations, from simple charts and graphs to more sophisticated forms like treemaps, network diagrams and interactive visualizations. Discusses the importance of data analysis to good journalism.

Journalism in the Age of Data