Christine Zhang is a 2016 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow based at the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. She believes that open data and open-source tools can empower journalism's core audiences to ask data-driven questions and inspire them to explore their own stories. Prior to the Los Angeles Times, Christine worked in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Graphing data is one of the core components of data analysis. Visualizing information can help journalists quickly identify trends within a dataset, and a powerful visual can tell a compelling sto...