
The Data Journalism Handbook 1
When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. Explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.
Produced by European Journalism Centre
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Duration
Front Matter
- For the Great Unnamed 1 min
- Contributor List 1 min
- What This Book Is (And What It Isn’t) 1 min
- The Handbook At A Glance 1 min
Introduction
In The Newsroom
- The ABC’s Data Journalism Play 6 min
- Data Journalism at the BBC 6 min
- How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works 3 min
- Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog 5 min
- Data Journalism at the Zeit Online 4 min
- How to Hire a Hacker 4 min
- Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackthons 5 min
- Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration 6 min
- Our Stories Come As Code 5 min
- Business Models for Data Journalism 5 min
- Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-finished Content for Stakeholder Groups 5 min
Case studies
- The Opportunity Gap 3 min
- A 9 Month Investigation into European Structural Funds 4 min
- The Eurozone Meltdown 4 min
- Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org 5 min
- Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding 3 min
- Electoral Hack in Realtime 4 min
- Data in the News: Wikileaks 5 min
- Mapa76 Hackathon 3 min
- The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots 4 min
- Illinois School Report Cards 3 min
- Hospital Billing 3 min
- Care Home Crisis 2 min
- The Tell-All Telephone 2 min
- Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates 2 min
- Bus Subsidies in Argentina 4 min
- Citizen Data Reporters 5 min
- The Big Board for Election Results 2 min
- Crowdsourcing the Price of Water 3 min
Getting Data
- A Five Minute Field Guide 5 min
- Your Right to Data 7 min
- Wobbing Works. Use it! 5 min
- Getting Data from the Web 11 min
- The Web as a Data Source 9 min
- Crowdsourcing Data at the Guardian Datablog 3 min
- How the Datablog Used Crowdsourcing to Cover Olympic Ticketing 5 min
- Using and Sharing Data: the Black Letter, Fine Print, and Reality 7 min
Understanding data
- Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps 6 min
- Tips for Working with Numbers in the News 3 min
- Basic Steps in Working with Data 7 min
- The £32 Loaf of Bread 1 min
- Start With the Data, Finish With a Story 2 min
- Data Stories 2 min
- Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice 4 min
- Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data 13 min
Delivering Data
- Presenting Data to the Public 9 min
- How to Build a News App 5 min
- News Apps at ProPublica 3 min
- Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism 8 min
- Using visualizations to Tell Stories 6 min
- Designing With Data 5 min
- Different Charts Tell Different Tales 6 min
- Data visualization DIY: Our Top Tools 5 min
- How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang 2 min
- Public Data Goes Social 4 min
- Engaging People Around Your Data 4 min
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The Data Journalism Handbook 2
Towards a Critical Data Practice
When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.

This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you’ll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both.