To narrate. Guide the reader through the story, inviting him/her to turn the page or continue viewing.

To interact with games. Propose entertainment spaces to attract the user.

To personalize. Make it possible to incorporate your data.

Others. Interactive elements that can not be counted in the previous options would be included here.

Finally, the ratio of visualisations in the items was examined regarding the physical space occupied by the text and the visualisations. Following Stalph’s approach (2017) and Tandoc and Soo-Kwang (2017), we noted whether the visualisations or the narrative part of the works predominated, whether there was a balance between them, or the contrary, the project captured information only through informative graphic representations or narration.

3. Results

In total, 101 visualisations incorporated in the 42 works selected were analysed. After examining them, it was clear that the items included an average of more than two visualisations (M=2,40). The incorporation of only one was the most frequent (57.14%). We identified only one project that does not contain news graphic representations. In other words, the work with data is presented in the text’s body in this case. If we analyse the items depending on whether they won an award or not, all the winners (n=5) except one included only one visualisation. There is a slight disparity in the nominees’ number of visualisations, perhaps due to the difference in numbers between winners and nominees.

3.1. Types of visualisations

As seen in Table 1, the most common visualisations in the nominees for the Data Journalism Awards 2019 are infographics (45.24%). Most of these are structured as scrolling through the content to discover the full story. This would explain the use of a single visualisation in the publications, shaping the whole story as infographics and combining image, text, and visualisation. This communication form is quality work and shows the journalist’s capacity for interpretation and analysis, who tries to synthesise the content and show a complex or abstract reality in a more simplified one. Clear examples of the above are the publications “Concrete and coral” and “Indonesia plane crash” by Reuters “Hurricane Maria’s dead” by Associated Press, Centre for Investigative Journalism, and Quartz.

Graphic elements, such as images, illustrations, and videos, are the second most used visualisation type (30.95%). The static graphics, interactive graphics, maps, tables, and animations- in this case, sets of visualisations that vary automatically in time follow the graphic elements of the data journalism items. The option “other” (11.90) includes, among others, the self-refillable text proposed in “How to forecast an American’s vote” by the Economist and the search engine of integrated figures in the project “Medical devices harm patients worldwide as Governments fail on safety” developed together by more than 50 journalistic organisations.