Alex Lim

Climate graphics guy™ 🌱📊 @abcnews • amateur ice hockey player 🇺🇸🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 @journalims.bsky.social

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Personal news: I've joined the ABC's new Climate team! Graphics are key to getting over some big challenges in climate reporting: big numbers, repetitiveness, misinfo, doom & gloom, etc. How does Australia adapt to a changing, warming world? Let's take a look. I'm so excited :)

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Some maps 📍 to help put the Geelong refinery fire in context. My colleagues and I matched images of damage to the area of the facility where the fire burned. https://t.co/ynkJILj5qh

[Alex Lim @journalims]

This is, of course, open to applicants from anywhere! I just happen to have largely American followers on X

[Alex Lim @journalims]

If any American news graphics designers are brave enough to move to Australia like I did, there's a very cool opening at the ABC currently. It's a very creative, wide-ranging role. Happy to answer questions. Closes 17 Feb (Aus. time)
https://t.co/xf027qAOUT

[Alex Lim @journalims]

https://t.co/94UfqEesjY

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Thanks for the shoutout @Datawrapper! And in the same post as my ST Graphics pals @straits_times :)

[Datawrapper @Datawrapper]

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://t.co/xz5vx9EBqz and tell us: what were your favorites?

[Alex Lim @journalims]

@robfarago @abcnews Hey Rob, glad you enjoyed the article. Looks like we've made a mistake and that should be c/W not c/Wh, referring to Fig 3.1 in the IRENA report. Thanks for pointing this out!

[Alex Lim @journalims]

It's a good time to be a solar panel, they're taking off all over the world. The @abcnews Story Lab and Climate teams looked at how #solar is exceeding all expectations 💯☀️ https://t.co/QBaTKpIj2G

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Check out the story for more: https://t.co/QBaTKpIj2G

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Countries like China and India are rapidly building solar farms the size of cities. The picture in Australia, on the other hand, is much different. It's a world leader in rooftop solar. https://t.co/QBaTKpIj2G

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Slowly stepping into the world of illustrated news graphics. Here's one from a story about how a construction decision flattened Darwin when Cyclone Tracy struck 50 years ago. https://t.co/MiFuRvPJhn

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Grateful to be a Walkleys finalist for Explanatory Journalism with @Mridula_Amin. A data story meets photo essay for a topic on a lot of people's minds in this explainer for @abcnews. https://t.co/VruMNTAJI8

[Walkley Foundation @walkleys]

The finalists for All Media: Explanatory Journalism are: @Mridula_Amin, Alex Lim, @abcnews; Faster, higher, stronger team, @smh, @theage; @RileyStuart1, @lucysween, Haidarr Jones, @abcnews. #walkleys

[Alex Lim @journalims]

This summer alone, in the northern hemisphere, thousands have died during extreme heat events. “This study is all about human survivability,” says Dr Jem Cheng. https://t.co/WN5AHsXTRF

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Researchers are forming a better understanding of how humans cope with extreme heat. In certain conditions, the thresholds for when heat turns deadly are lower than we thought.
https://t.co/WN5AHsXTRF

[Alex Lim @journalims]

@datakid23 @abcnews Some of the details are noted at the bottom of the article. Segment Anything for image analysis, selenium for web scraping, and good ol’ Google sheets to crunch numbers

[Alex Lim @journalims]

My deep dive into mullets in the AFL won a Kennedy Award for Outstanding Digital Innovation. 🏆 I’m really proud of that! Big thanks to my team and editors @abcnews who let me take some risks with this one. And thanks to our hair/makeup dept for the wigs! https://t.co/94UfqEdUuq

[Kennedy Foundation @kennedyawards]

The Kennedy Award for Outstanding Digital Innovation goes to Alex Lim, Katia Shatoba, & Thomas Brettell from @abcnews for The Mullet is Alive & Well in AFL.

[Roselyn Romero @roselyn_romero]

My first @aaja convention was incredibly fortifying. I got to meet some of my favorite journalists like @joseiswriting & @Angela_Y_Yang, make new friends like @journalims & @troydoesnews and explore downtown Austin during Pride weekend.

My heart is so full ❤️

[Alex Lim @journalims]

@roselyn_romero @aaja @joseiswriting @Angela_Y_Yang @troydoesnews Also you killed it at karaoke 🤩

[Rachel Ramirez @rachjuramirez]

how it started vs how it’s going

an honor to have the iconic CONNIE CHUNG now in a gala room full of asian american journalists 🌟thank you, @aaja

[Alex Lim @journalims]

Hey friends, I’m in Austin at the @aaja convention this week. Very happy to be here in person this year and keen to chat about about any aspect of journalism + design, data, dev etc. See you around! #aaja24