Berlin Data Stories: posters and stories from open data

Atlas and Kiez Finder show Berlin as a map: noise, heat, green space, elections, for every address. That's handy. Still, something was missing for me. Much of the data has more to tell than a map can show.

That's what the Data Stories are for. Here I work with the data until it turns into a picture or a story. Sometimes that's a poster for your wall, sometimes a longer interactive story. Not all of it would pass a data visualisation class (if you've got Tufte on your shelf: I know). The exact numbers are still in the atlas.

First up is "Point and Line to Kiez": the twelve districts as compositions of shapes. More will follow, picture by picture, story by story. First the districts, then the Kieze, with single topics in between.

Ready to print

Many pictures come as PDFs. Want your district on the wall? Download the file and have it printed, at any size.

Free to use

Code, data processing and pictures are MIT licensed. You may use, change and share all of it. The source data keeps its own licences, so every picture names its sources. Details are on the licences page.

In every story

• The data sources are listed.
• I try to include a text alternative for screen readers every time.
• Everything appears in German and English.

New stories show up in the overview.