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Data Handbook 1

  • Beginner
  • 1 min

For the Great Unnamed

The Data Journalism Handbook was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism’s leading advocates and best practitioners.

Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers, Jonathan Gray
Novice 17 min

Case studies

Debunking with data: insights from fact-checkers around the globe

Armed with data, fact-checking organisations work tirelessly to help separate facts from fiction, and any misnomers in-between. Here's how they do it.

Madolyn Smith
Novice 10 min

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Ethics

Communicating large amounts: please, no more football fields

When journalists try to communicate large amounts, they have a tendency to measure area in multiples of football fields, and volume by Olympic swimming pools. But this isn't always the most effective approach.

Nicolas Kayser-Bril
Novice 6 min

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Ethics

Ethical questions in data journalism and the power of online discussion

How do data journalists make ethical decisions? Using case studies from gun permit reporting, this article showcases the power of online discussion in solving ethical dilemmas.

Novice 4 min

Coversations with Data newsletter

Python and newsrooms: AMA with Winny de Jong

Winny de Jong, from the Dutch public broadcaster NOS, answers your questions about learning Python, hiring data journalists, and working at a broadcaster.

Madolyn Smith, Winny de Jong
Novice 16 min

Ethics

Privacy and data leaks

From the Snowden revelations to the Panama Papers, reporters and editors face complex decisions when it comes to reporting on leaked data.

Susan McGregor
Novice 7 min

Coversations with Data newsletter

Ethical dilemmas in data journalism

To publish or not to publish? It’s a question every data journalist will undoubtedly face at some point in their career. In this edition, we’ve collated your anecdotes and advice into seven tips to help you work through your next ethical dilemma.

Madolyn Smith, Stijn Debrouwere, Brant Houston, Rebekah McBride
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Data visualisation
Charting Tools for the Newsroom

Maarten Lambrechts

Data visualisation

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  • 2 hr 32 min

Charting Tools for the Newsroom

Charts and maps have become ubiquitous in todays newsrooms. They convey stories with numbers much better than text alone does and they are shared easily. But not every journalist is a numbercruncher or a graphics designer. And a lot of newsrooms, especially smaller ones, don’t have the means to employ graphic journalists that can craft charts and maps. In this course we introduce and learn to use some tools every journalist can adopt to produce graphics that can support or carry a story.

Maarten Lambrechts
Data analysis
Mistakes We Made So You Don't Have To: Data Visualisation, Journalism and the Web

Jonathon Berlin

Mistakes We Made So You Don't Have To: Data Visualisation, Journalism and the Web

Jonathon Berlin

Resources
Managing Data Journalism Projects

Jacopo Ottaviani

Managing Data Journalism Projects

Jacopo Ottaviani

Best practices
Bulletproof Data Journalism

Stijn Debrouwere

Bulletproof Data Journalism

Stijn Debrouwere

Data collection
Cleaning Data in Excel

Maarten Lambrechts

Cleaning Data in Excel

Maarten Lambrechts

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Madolyn Smith

Editor

Madolyn Smith is an Editor for the European Journalism Centre's Data team.

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Brent Walth

Assistant professor

Brent Walth teaches investigative reporting at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

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Peter Aldhous

Science reporter

Peter is a science reporter at BuzzFeed News who teaches investigative journalism in the Science Communications program at UC Santa Cruz and data visualization at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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Ximena Villagrán

Data Journalist

Data journalist focused in Central America

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Fantastic article, and a very original approach. Thanks for writing it. I just wonder how things...

Let’s get physical: how to represent data through touch
By Danny Devinsky

I can not believe there are more comments on this. This is a a very informational article that...

Under-reported news
By Danny Devinsky

Fantastic Newsletter issue. Thanks for providing all this for free.

Under-reported news
By Tommy Kenis

Hi, I think it's a very good course for journalists. I only had one concern, since she says that...

Getting started
By Geishy Rondon

Thank you for this article - it made me inspired. I'm a synesthete (seeing colours and shapes of...

Let’s get physical: how to represent data through touch
By Paulina Kosobucka

Great motivational introduction.

What is data journalism?
By Gonzalo Robledo

hier steht gar nicht, wer den Artikel geschrieben hat, er war es:...

The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation
By Malte Hildebrand

Great course! Lessons are really well organized, explanations are clear, and the exercises are...

Scrape data
By Norman Rusin
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