Business news website Quartz unveils search engine for its charts

New York

ONLINE publishers have learnt that when explaining a complicated subject, like an economic crisis or healthcare reform, simplicity is often the best route for attracting readers. One way of doing this: Write a post that promises everything can be understood "in one chart". Perhaps no publication has taken that lesson to heart as much as Quartz, the business news website of Atlantic Media.

On Tuesday, Quartz introduced a new section of its site, a search engine for the thousands of bar and line charts that Quartz journalists have made since its introduction in 2012.