I’ve written a post on the Help Me Investigate blog on a number of different ways to publish data online, from converting Excel spreadsheets into HTML tables, to using Google Docs, or using data-sharing platforms like BuzzData. You may find it useful.
Here’s an example of how APIs can be useful to journalists when they need to combine two sets of data. I recently spoke to Lincoln investigative journalism student Sean McGrath who had obtained some information via FOI that he needed to combine with other data to answer a question (sorry to be so cryptic). He had spent 3 days cleaning
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I recently spent 2 days teaching the basics of data journalism to trainee journalists on a broadsheet newspaper. It’s a pretty intensive course that follows a path I’ve explored here previously – from finding data and interrogating it to visualizing it and mashing – and I wanted to record the results. My approach was both practical and conceptual. Conceptually, the
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As part of an ongoing series on recent graduates who have gone into online journalism, The Telegraph’s new Data Mapping Reporter Conrad Quilty-Harper talks about what got him the job, what it involves, and what skills he feels online journalists need today. I got my job thanks to Twitter. Chris Brauer, head of online journalism at City University, was impressed by my
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This is a draft from a book chapter on data journalism (here are parts 1; two; and three, which looks the charts side of visualisation). I’d really appreciate any additions or comments you can make – particularly around tips and tools. UPDATE: It has now been published in The Online Journalism Handbook. Visualisation tools So if you want to visualise some
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