Times Now to show results with new-age data tools

NEW DELHI: Gearing up for the election verdict in four states, Times Now will introduce new-age data visualisation tools like Spectrum, Firewall and Cluster for the #May19withArnab show. Arnab Goswami, president (news) & editor-in-chief of Times Now and ET Now said, “Election coverage will be an all new, refreshing experience on Times Now. By teaming with the world leader in data visualisation Gramener, we will give Indian viewers never-seen-before cutting edge graphical representation of data.”
Naveen Gattu, co-founder of Gramener, said, “Teaming up with India’s number one English news network is a great opportunity and challenge for us.We will introduce on May 19 a new genre of visual data journalism, which will make understanding data so much more simple.”
Times Now and Gramener will introduce five new data visualisation tools which will be a first not only in India but also in broadcast journalism world over. The first is, ‘What If’? This will depict how each alliance is performing as the results trickle in and help examine various scenarios in terms of how future post-poll agreements may play out.
‘Scatter Plot’ will map out constituencies as per the margins of leads that trickle in, mapping the leads on X axis and vote share on the Y axis. ‘Election Chord’ will depict which party or alliance gained votes and seats at whose expense from the previous election, while ‘Spectrum’ is a measurement of how every seat traditionally votes. ‘Strike Rate’ depicts the performance of each individual party in terms of its seats won, compared to the number of seats it contested.