What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from January 15 to 21 finds an interactive @voxdotcom piece on American districts which are reducing or perpetuating racial segregation in schools, several data-related good book recommendations by @stephencredmond and @Gapminder and a podcast discussion of memorable visualizations between @michelle_borkin and @datastories.
Data visualization specialist Andy Kirk took a look at the most significant developments in the field so far this year and found the rise of the datagif, impressive work at the Hindustan Times and some beauties over at Periscopic. Here’s his top ten list in data visualization from January to June 2017.
Wondering how to best adapt data journalism for broadcast? UK online journalism expert Paul Bradshaw has done a round-up of impressive examples from five countries — a primer on exploring data storytelling for video and television.
Here are the top data journalism tweets for Feb 13-19, per our NodeXL mapping: France’s capital of celibacy (@LeTelegramme); Ode to Hans Rosling (@ddjournalism); Portugal’s tax-free Madeira (@BR_Recherche); Love/hate pie charts (@storywithdata); Dutch ddj guide (@henkvaness); & more.
