One week of The Guardian: Monday

Well I’ve been going through Monday’s paper and annotating it all with as much information as I could get to create the first visualisation for One Week of The Guardian. Let me say this is probably the most boring part of it all. Reading through pages and pages of fine print, documenting the word count, category, place it is positioned in the paper, author, etc etc.

Each article from The Guardian (Monday 18th February 2008) is sorted into categories, and ordered top to bottom by the position the first instance of the category appears in the paper. The total word count of the category is used to work out the percentage of that category against all categories in the paper, and then the percentage is used to work out the amount of vertical space it should occupy on the poster.

All previews are at 72DPI. They’re not as sharp as the original print file, but they’re close.

One week of The Guardian: Monday PDF
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Mmmm… International Typographic Style logo. My favourite style at the moment. :)

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Well there it is. Much more colourful / statistical / emotional / personable than your standard Monday newspaper. At a glance you can pretty much tell what the big subjects of the day are just by looking at the amount of space the sections take up.
Information breakdown

The visuals were created by extracting the news out of The Guardian newspaper for one week, and mapping the information to a spreadsheet. Everything else, such as adverts, horoscopes, puzzles, etc have been omitted in order to find the news in the newspapers!



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