How The Hindu Data Team learnt to make graphics-driven videos

While print journalism has evolved significantly in recent years to include a variety of new offerings beyond traditional news and opinion, such as data journalism and explanatory journalism, an overarching concern that afflicts the minds of print journalists is whether their clientele – readers – prefer to get their news fix from videos. We have been producing “The Hindu Data Point” videos to supplement our print and digital “Data Point” offering - which features a detailed look at subjects using data and expertise. For example, it took merely 3 hours to write the code for the entire visualisation that was presented in the video, “ Why are southern States resisting Hindi more than others ” published in “The Hindu Data Point” series on thehindu.com and YouTube. Here are some important News in Numbers from last week: US trade deficit in January $131.4 billion The US trade deficit surged to a new record in January, government data showed Thursday, as imports spiked while tariff worries flared in the month of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.