Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/category/data-journalism/page/47/)
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for July 25-Aug 1: terrorism deaths (@guardiandata); US demographics (@jh_viz); global science collaboration (@storybench); China’s Africa aid (@EvaConstantaras); Alcohol use (@data_match); Nigerian money (@smartmonkeytv); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Aug 2-8: poverty redefined (@nytimes); Spain’s elections (@politibot); Nigeria’s debts (@BudgITng); subway directions, shown above (@nicolaskruchten); PokemonGo social divide (@lemondefr); 3D incident reconstruction (@TB_Times); & more.
At First Draft, we frequently receive emails from a whole range of people asking how they can start doing the sort of online open-source investigation and verification that they’ve seen us doing. The skills and methodologies used are all something that can be learnt through a little persistence, but here are a few pieces of advice to get you started.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Aug 9-14: NYT interactives (@archietse); Trump’s tweets (@drob); Olympics data viz (@thegamma_net); Kenya teen abortions, HIV (@dailynation); Mapbox (@mcrosasb); US household debt (@lenkiefer); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Aug 15-22: Mexico’s secret trust funds (@ElUniversalData); Brexit data (@jakeybob); animated forest fires (@geojournalism); visual vocabulary (@FT); Google Trends data (@GoogleTrends); common data problems (@qz); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Aug 23-28: Paris cost of living (@ParisMatch); graphing my life (@benorlin);Olympic female athletes (@FiveThirtyEight); graphic design skills (@albertocairo); R (@storybench); human rights research data (@EngnRoom); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Aug 29-Sept 2: Earth warms at top rate in 1000 years (@NASAClimate); 2 million oil/gas docs (@Open_Oil); G20 CO2 emissions (@CarbonBrief); German dialects (@SPIEGELONLINE); Munich massacre on Twitter (@puls_br); ;and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Sept 5-10: America’s shrinking middle class (@FT); Latino voters & Trump (@UniNoticias); iPhone7 rave (@newyorker); DocumentCloud (@SchoolOfData); Chicago’s sensor net (@arrayofthings); Visual Vocab (@MartinStabe); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Sept 26-Oct 1: future journo tech-jobs (@mkramer); open-source search tools (@OpenSemSearch); data viz projects (@chrtze); isotype chart generator (@albertocairo); data & digital collaboration (@jwyg); and more.
When the president of the parliament states that there are some MPs “doing nothing,” you know what to do as a data journalist: you turn to the numbers. This is how I did that and how I got a scatter plot in a printed paper and an interactive one online.