Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/category/data-journalism/page/40/)
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for May 29-June 4: Free Software and Tools for Investigative Journalists (@DDJ_Tools); Debunking ddj Myths (@jsource); The Art & Science of ddj, German Rent Index (@zeitonline), Swiss Election Dataviz (@srfdata) and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for Jun 4-11: 60 Years of European World Cup Data (@elmundoes); 4 cheap ways to put ddj in newsrooms (@IJNet); ICIJ’s data team (@ICIJorg); events in Argentina (@HacksHackersBA) & Italy @Glocalnews); @knightfdn grants.
The latest tools and resources from the Research Desk: new world of drones databases available, reports from the European Parliament Research Service, Top Green Companies in the World 2015, a handy free extension to download entire pages or individual files, and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for Jun 11-18: mapping global tax evasion (@grandjeanmartin), vote for best data journalism site (@GENinnovate); data viz examples (@visualoop, @OKFN), data retention (@Frontal21) and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for June 18-26: The Migrant Files’ Money Trail; global access to medicine (@civio); the German arms trade (@welt); Swiss Election Data (@DataLeTemps); Mapping Rents in Munich (@SZ); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for June 26- July 2: Lobbyists in Brussels (@POLITICOEurope); +200 data visualizations on fiscal data (@OKFN); European population growth (@morgenpost); election costs in Mexico (@Univ_Data); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for Jul 2 – 9: San Fermin’s Running of the Bulls (@elmundodata); democratizing the data revolution (@OKFN); #ddj at Netzwerk Recheche’s Conference (@berndoswald); prison phone calls (@IBTimes); 12 tips for #ddj; and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 9 to 16: +300 sites with free geographic datasets (@sciremotesense ); graphing German YouTube (@SPIEGELOLINE); Australia’s mining footprint (@ICIJorg); democratizing data (OKFN); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 16 to 23: 2490 D3 Visualizations (@d3visualization); corrupt techniques on evidence presentation (@edwardtufte); examples of fiscal data visualization (@OKFN); Australia’s mining footprint (@ICIJorg); and more.
$8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer program that reads the HTML code from webpages, and analyze it. With such a program, or “bot,” it’s possible to extract data and information from websites.