Data Handbook 2
Introduction
What is data journalism? What is it for? What might it do? What opportunities and limitations does it present? Who and what is involved in making and making sense of it? This book is a...
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Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem
When you look at the chart below (Figure 1), you will see a series of...
Multiplying Memories While Discovering Trees in Bogota
Bogotá holds almost 16% of the population of Colombia in just 1.775 km². You get...
From Coffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations into How the Poor Feed the Rich
At the beginning of 2016, a small group of journalists decided to investigate the journey...
Courses
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.
Contributors
Madolyn Smith
Editor
Madolyn Smith is an Editor for the European Journalism Centre's Data team.
Paul Bradshaw
Course leader, MA Data Journalism & MA Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism and Data journalist
Data journalist and online journalism academic, trainer, writer and speaker
Martín Sarsale
CTO
Programmer. Co-Founder of Properati OLX, co founder of Hackshackers Buenos Aires
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