Off the charts: A comparative analysis of data visualisations in online science news from South Africa and the USA

• Marnell Kirsten ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marnell Kirsten, Marina Joubert

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: marnell.kirsten@ltu.se

  Affiliation Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4440-6403

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• Marina Joubert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marnell Kirsten, Marina Joubert

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-1796

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• Ionica Smeets ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ IS and WW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituut Biologie Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

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• Winnifred Wijnker

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ IS and WW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Human Experience & Media Design and Quality Journalism in Digital Transition, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

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