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Data visualization DIY: Our Top Tools
What data visualization tools are out there on the web that are easy to use — and free? Here on the Datablog and Datastore we try to do as much as possible using the internet’s...
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What is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys
The daily refreshing of Five Thirty Eight’s interactive 2016 election map forecasts was all but...
The promise of Wikidata
Wikidata can be a useful resource for journalists digging for data on a deadline. Monika Sengul-Jones explains the joy and perils of using the searchable data trove for your next story.
What's on at #NICAR21
Attending #NICAR21 next month? In our latest Conversations with Data newsletter, Denise Malan from IRE tells us all about what's on at this year’s virtual conference. She also shares her advice on how to get started in data journalism.
Investigating crime and corruption with data
In this week's newsletter, investigative journalist Pavla Holcova talks to us about using data to investigate the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová.
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Data visualisation
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.
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