Top Ten #ddj: This Week’s Top Data Journalism

What’s the #ddj community tweeting about? Our NodeXL mapping from May 29 to June 4 features research on social media propaganda from @ddjournalism, mapping global refugee flow from @FastCompany and the tax bracket racket from @voxdotcom.

Propaganda on Social Media

Research by the University of Copenhagen’s Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou highlights the potential effectiveness and destructiveness of disguised propaganda in social media, triggering even more questions. How widespread are these practices? And how can we find better ways of identifying fake identities and their authors?

How researchers collected data from #Facebook to uncover fake Islamist propaganda: https://t.co/Eml1Y75otk @ejcnet #ddj pic.twitter.com/UWlOtFwOQZ

— DataDrivenJournalism (@ddjournalism) May 29, 2017

Mapping Global Refugees

Watch Fast Company‘s mesmerizing data visualization of the movement of refugees worldwide since 2000.

Where are most of the world’s refugees going? This data visualization shows that most flee to neighboring countries.https://t.co/W0JyudXMio pic.twitter.com/Co4XraTlmo

— UNHCR United States (@UNHCRUSA) June 5, 2017

Unsteady Jobs

Workers in America’s gig economy experience income swings as the number of hours they work changes from week to week, according to The New York Times. And the middle class is not immune.

A reliable job no longer delivers reliable pay. “Only households that earn $105,000 or more a year are secure” https://t.co/CYH22lvTjk pic.twitter.com/RDoLG7AUD8

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) June 6, 2017

Free Data Viz, Analysis Tools

Got data? Computerworld compiled a list of 22 useful tools that can help you turn your data into informative, engaging graphics.

Great tools for student data analysis!!! 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis #UDL #edtech https://t.co/mGxFuriXlg pic.twitter.com/1ZpsiC7Rtm

— Katie Novak (@KatieNovakUDL) May 30, 2017

10 Charting Tools

La Data Cuenta on creating charts using Infogram, Fusion Tables, Datawrapper and more.

Atrévase a crear gráficos con estas 10 herramientas https://t.co/8AHofTsrry pic.twitter.com/FDSV8PMjGQ

— Hassel Fallas (@HasselFallas) May 31, 2017

100 Years of Taxation

US politicians want to reduce the number of tax brackets because they say it will simplify the tax code. In one chart, Vox plainly illustrates how the changing US tax brackets impacted on income inequality in the post-Reagan era.

Very engaging interactive: 100 years of tax brackets in one chart – https://t.co/GWk7ygOzJO via @voxdotcom #dataviz #ddj pic.twitter.com/QGvRYcf4fn

— Steffen Kühne (@stekhn) May 29, 2017

Free #ddj Courses

Three free courses on Learno include “Going Viral Using Social Media Analytics” taught by Stijn Debrouwere, “Cleaning Data in Excel” by Maarten Lambrechts and “Mistakes We Made So You Don’t Have To: Data Visualization, Journalism and the Web” by Jonathon Berlin.

Expand your #ddj skill set with @ejcnet and @learnonet‘s free new course offerings: https://t.co/V8HNwzT5Z0 pic.twitter.com/NHmUCjqFPS

— DataDrivenJournalism (@ddjournalism) May 28, 2017

Data Journalism Library

The data visualization library provides a comprehensive collection of data visualization, descriptions and resource links to learn more about visualization techniques.

AP Stylebook Gets Data

The AP Stylebook now includes guidelines on data: requesting it, scraping it, reporting on it and publishing it.

An interesting update to AP Styleguide about web scraping and data handling. What do you think, data journos? https://t.co/fNKsNPHSxW pic.twitter.com/2hAM6xHQ34

— Mick Côté (@MickCote) May 31, 2017

European Data Conference

The conference in Dublin on July 6 and 7 will look at the global state of data journalism, leveraging search data to bring elections to life and data journalism as a civic duty.

Check out our line up on https://t.co/MFDqnZXK83. #ddj

— DataJ Conf (@datajconf) June 2, 2017

Thanks, once again, to Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.

For a look at Marc Smith’s mapping on #ddj on Twitter, check out this map.