One day of The Guardian

Recently I’ve been work­ing on some sta­tic visu­al­i­sa­tions of news, and decided to cre­ate a poster with all of the news printed in the Guardian news­pa­per for one day. I played about with a cou­ple of ver­sions, try­ing to cre­ate rela­tion­ships between the sto­ries and the authors.

The visual is based on ser­ial rela­tion­ships between ele­ments, but more on ser­ial and par­al­lel rela­tions later.

Colour coded arti­cles put the sto­ries into categories.

The pipes con­nect the cat­e­gories to one another in ser­ial relationships.

Over­layed some quick and dirty scrib­bles to relate the sto­ries to the authors.

…And a quick tally of sto­ries by cat­e­gory and total.

There’s a fair bit to learn just from look­ing at this. For exam­ple, how the paper starts off by hav­ing vary­ing sub­ject cat­e­gories before pro­gress­ing into spe­cial ded­i­cated sec­tions with con­cen­trated sub­ject areas, see­ing what were the most pop­u­lar story cat­e­gories, or which authors have the most pub­lished arti­cles for that day.

View the full size posters

View the poster with coloured cat­e­gory link­ing, or the poster with author link­ing and story tally marking.