Five years ago, the POV staff was surprised to discover that the most polluted waterway in America was situated roughly two miles north of our office in New York City on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. What was even more surprising was that none of us had ever heard of this tiny estuary before, […]

During the Docs 3.0 panel at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, my fellow panelist Paula Le Dieu talked about how Web technologies are allowing for new forms of storytelling, specifically through what she called visualization. Here are some of the visualization websites she highlighted, which provide visitors a new understanding of very complex data sets and encourage […]