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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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Tackling quantitative imperialism
This week's newsletter features Prof Deborah Stone. She talks to us about her new book, "Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters".
Inside the OpenLux investigation
In our latest conversation, we talk with OCCRP editor Antonio Baquero and Le Monde journalist Maxime Vaudano about the OpenLux investigation.
Exploring the sound of data
In our latest conversation, we talk with data journalists Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick about their data sonification podcast.
Inside The Economist's "Off the Charts" newsletter
In our latest conversation, data journalist Marie Segger talk to us about launching The Economist's "Off The Charts" newsletter and her path into data journalism.
Build a data hypothesis for your next story
In our latest conversation, Eva Constantaras and Anastasia Valeeva talk to us about the power of using a data hypothesis to tell compelling stories about forgotten or hidden communities.
Investigating troubling content on Amazon
A team of researchers, journalists and students collaborated to investigate online conspiracy theories online. This is how they did it.
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
Jonathan Gray
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Jonathan Gray is Senior Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg.
Liliana Bounegru
Lecturer in Digital Methods
Lecturer in Digital Methods at King's College London
Brant Houston
Professor and Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting
Brant Houston is an award winning investigative and data journalist who has published textbooks on both. He also is con-founder and board chair of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
Geoff McGhee
T. Anthony Pollner Professor
T. Anthony Pollner Professor, @UMJSchool , Faculty advisor @MontanaKaimin. Data vis @TheWaterDesk @WestCenter. Former @jskstanford @nytimes @lemondefr
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