Andy Stevens
Data journalist and journocoder at Mediahuis. I build tools that help newsrooms tell stories with data — from interactive visualizations to full publishing systems.
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What stands out
Flanders goes from green to grey
Scrollytelling that uses satellite imagery and AI analysis to show how Flanders lost 62 km² of open space in six years. With animated before-and-after imagery…
Can you still afford a house?
Rich interactive real estate tool that calculates how much house you can afford based on your net salary and savings. With adjustable loan parameters, housing…
Editorial Image Suite
Internal image editing toolkit for (currently) six Mediahuis newsrooms in three countries. Four tools in one app: collage creation, branded stamp overlays,…
Reconstruction: "If this message is heard, Allah has allowed us to strike"
Multimedia reconstruction of the March 22, 2016 Brussels attacks on Zaventem and Maalbeek, featuring CCTV footage, audio fragments from the criminal file and…
Flanders goes from green to grey
Scrollytelling that uses satellite imagery and AI analysis to show how Flanders lost 62 km² of open space in six years.…
Can you still afford a house?
Rich interactive real estate tool that calculates how much house you can afford based on your net salary and savings.…
Editorial Image Suite
Internal image editing toolkit for (currently) six Mediahuis newsrooms in three countries. Four tools in one app:…
Reconstruction: "If this message is heard, Allah has allowed us to strike"
Multimedia reconstruction of the March 22, 2016 Brussels attacks on Zaventem and Maalbeek, featuring CCTV footage,…
Journalist with a terminal
Data journalist, journocoder, newsroom developer — depends who's asking. What I do has been the same for more than ten years: building things newsrooms need but didn't know existed yet.
At De Standaard I built scrollytelling and data tools with a small dedicated team. Now I do the same at Mediahuis, but for several newsrooms.
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Selected projects
Editorial Image Suite
Internal image editing toolkit for (currently) six Mediahuis newsrooms in three countries. Four tools in one app: collage creation, branded stamp overlays, AI-powered face and license plate blurring, and GIF animation creation.
Team Allocation Tool
Interactive drag-and-drop board for coaches to distribute youth players across teams during meetings. With automatic sorting by age category, photos and attendance data.
Can you still afford a house?
Rich interactive real estate tool that calculates how much house you can afford based on your net salary and savings. With adjustable loan parameters, housing preferences, neighboring municipality comparison, overview map and breakdowns per housing characteristic.
Flanders goes from green to grey
Scrollytelling that uses satellite imagery and AI analysis to show how Flanders lost 62 km² of open space in six years. With animated before-and-after imagery from Google Earth in a story that literally fades from green to grey as it progresses.
Msiks Admin
Internal web application for member administration of volleyball club Msiks Blaasveld, with member management, attendance registration, coach performance and evaluations.
How diverse is your school?
Interactive tool allowing readers to look up the diversity of any Flemish primary or secondary school, with evolution charts since 2010 and a comparison with the 25 nearest schools.
Msiks Blaasveld VC Website
Complete restyling and rebuild of the Msiks Blaasveld volleyball club website in WordPress, including a Volleyscores plugin.
Even in rainy Flanders, water is becoming scarce
International investigation into the state of European groundwater, with scrollytelling of QGIS maps of Flemish water bodies, an animated measurement point map and Flourish charts on water consumption.
Are you left or right?
Interactive ideological test that positions readers on two axes -- socio-economic and socio-cultural -- and compares their position with that of Flemish parties and 4,000 voters.
What state is your mayor leaving your municipality in?
Over 300 dynamic municipality profiles generated from a single template based on the Gemeente- en Stadsmonitor. With conditional text, custom SVG maps, interactive choropleth and comparison charts, and localized photo galleries.
The race to save the planet
Data-driven longread on the climate race, with interactive Flourish charts, 3D globes with climate scenarios and scrollytelling for the UN climate summit in Dubai.
Diary from Gaza: "What you see on the news is only a small part of what happens here"
Multimedia diary of a Palestinian university lecturer during the first weeks of the Gaza bombardments, featuring inline audio fragments, video and photography.
Conflict soy: rainforest is also being cut down for Belgian cheese and hamburgers
Investigative dossier by Ine Renson on the soy trade from the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado, with immersive photography, video and maps. Atmosphere driven by the photo and video work of Marizilda Cruppe.
The heavy toll of one year of war in Ukraine, in numbers, stories and images
Multimedia longread on one year of war in Ukraine, featuring data, an animated frontline map, sequential video footage and impactful photography.
Reconstruction: "If this message is heard, Allah has allowed us to strike"
Multimedia reconstruction of the March 22, 2016 Brussels attacks on Zaventem and Maalbeek, featuring CCTV footage, audio fragments from the criminal file and scrollytelling. Nominated for the Belfius Press Award.
Back to the Vesdre: our maps show areas that cannot but will flood
Scrollytelling with flood risk maps confronting official risk assessments with the actual devastation of July 2021 in the Vesdre valley.
Congo Hold-Up: how the Kabila clan stole 122 million from the state
Visual storytelling for the largest African data leak ever: how the Kabila clan stole 122 million from the Congolese state.
CurieuzeNeuzen in the Garden
Interactive maps for Belgium's largest citizen science project on heat: 4,400 lawn sensors mapped the urban heat island effect across Flanders.
Why the most successful parties are furthest from their voters
Interactive data visualization on the gap between Flemish parties and their voters, based on research data from De Stemming 2021.
Will nitrogen lock down Flanders?
Investigative piece on the nitrogen crisis in Flanders, with a scrollytelling map of overburdened Natura 2000 areas and impact simulations via Aerius.
The farmer who does not expand dies. Why mega-farms are conquering the Flemish countryside
Scrollytelling investigation for De Standaard on the rise of mega-farms in Flanders, with an interactive map and atmospheric photography and videography by Jimmy Kets.
Exit Belgium
Award-winning interactive investigative story about how Belgium forcibly deports thousands of people each year. Winner of the Belfius Press Prize for Digital Press.