The Mediagun Date Journalism Agency will engage in data visualization for NGOs and the media

The Agency of the Mediagun Date-Journal of Great began. The project team plans to provide data visualization services, search and analysis of data. All this will help customers of the agency solve the problems of creating viral content, attracting readers, using new formats. Another part of the agency’s work will be consultations for journalists and NPOs.

“There are more and more data, our task is to explain it. We see that journalists and editors are sitting in anticipation of information farmers or looking for them in search engines and news aggregators, while you can create their own. Data journalism is a tool with which you can expand the circle of topics, see new plots and metrics, attract new readers. ” Sergey Ustinov, founder of the agency Mediagun.

The Mediagun team includes specialists in the field of data analysis, programming, design and journalism. In the agency’s portfolio, projects performed by its participants earlier: for example, the City Forest Calculator , a study on the State Controls on the “Roads of Barnaul” , a simulator for the passing of court sentences, which formed the game of the mediazone portal .

Another topic: in Russian, a textbook on visual and date-journalism was published