Top Ten #ddj for 2014: The Year’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
What has the data driven journalism (#ddj) crowd been tweeting about all year long? What are the most popular hashtags? The most searched domains? The top mentions? Now that 2014 is over, GIJN, with the help of Connected Action’s Marc Smith, reflects back on: a year of “things” (BBC), guesting with strangers in à la Airbnb (Le Temps), all of history in “one click” (Herodote.net), the genius of Edward Tufte, and so very much more!
These lists are determined by NodeXL, a social media network mapping program, which analyzed the past year’s tweets using the hashtag #ddj. See the full NodeXL map at the bottom of this list. Here, then, is the data on data journalism for 2014:
Top Mentions of 2014
1. DDJournalism
2. Digiphile
3. GIJN
4. EdwardTufte
5. JeanAbbiateci
6. DataLeTemps
7. Chelm
8. AlbertoCairo
9. Date__Du__Jour
10. StKonrath
Top Hashtags of 2014
1. DDJ
2. Dataviz
3. Opendata
4. Data
5. DataJournalism
6. Pioneer
7. Journalism
8. IJF14
9. DDJschool
10. Visualization
Top Domains of 2014
1. herodote.net
2. gijn.org
3. instagram.com
4. towcenter.org
5. co.uk
6. nytimes.com
7. youtube.com
8. google.com
9. ijnet.org
10. theguardian.com
Top URLs of 2014
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