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"Today we are thrilled to launch Atlas, a new platform for discovering and sharing great charts. You can find it at atlas.qz.com.
This is a big step forward for Quartz and, we hope, all of you. Atlas deepens our journalism by offering readers better access to the data and visualizations in so many of our stories. It also extends the reach of our journalism by letting you make use of our charts in new ways.
What it does
Atlas gives each of our charts its own home, along with a set of tools for interacting with them: You can now download the data behind our charts, embed our charts elsewhere on the web, grab an image of our charts, and of course share our charts on social media. They will look great regardless of whether you’re using a big screen or mobile device.
Why we built it
Charts have always played an integral role in our journalism; Quartz writers published nearly 4,000 charts last year. We also know that our readers love charts and love sharing them. Charts are our cat photos.
With Atlas, we wanted to make it easier for readers to share our charts by acknowledging that these simple data visualizations can easily stand on their own, with their own pages and ability to spread across the web. Atlas chart pages and embeds are also more useful than flat image files because they can offer context and, crucially, provide the data behind them for further analysis.
Often the best way to tell a story is visually. That’s all the more true for a news organization like us covering global business. We’re calling this Atlas because, while once atlases were used to figure out where everything was, the way we understand the world now is with data."
http://atlas.qz.com/
This is a big step forward for Quartz and, we hope, all of you. Atlas deepens our journalism by offering readers better access to the data and visualizations in so many of our stories. It also extends the reach of our journalism by letting you make use of our charts in new ways.
What it does
Atlas gives each of our charts its own home, along with a set of tools for interacting with them: You can now download the data behind our charts, embed our charts elsewhere on the web, grab an image of our charts, and of course share our charts on social media. They will look great regardless of whether you’re using a big screen or mobile device.
Why we built it
Charts have always played an integral role in our journalism; Quartz writers published nearly 4,000 charts last year. We also know that our readers love charts and love sharing them. Charts are our cat photos.
With Atlas, we wanted to make it easier for readers to share our charts by acknowledging that these simple data visualizations can easily stand on their own, with their own pages and ability to spread across the web. Atlas chart pages and embeds are also more useful than flat image files because they can offer context and, crucially, provide the data behind them for further analysis.
Often the best way to tell a story is visually. That’s all the more true for a news organization like us covering global business. We’re calling this Atlas because, while once atlases were used to figure out where everything was, the way we understand the world now is with data."
http://atlas.qz.com/
