What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for September 10-17: refugee origins (berlinermorgenpost); #ddj podcast (partiallyd); football players birthplaces (BR_data); EU iPhones & tax money (zeitonline); and data viz guru’s sculpture park (EdwardTufte).
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for September 3-9: Syrian Refugees in Europe (elmundoes); Nukes in Japan (StatisticsViews); Mapping Tennis (Natgeo); Rent Prices as Mountains (datenblog112); and the World’s Fastest Lifts (FT).
Time for a new collection of tools and reports. This week we’ve got a human rights database, file conversion for 208 formats, and nine new reports from research organizations, ranging from terrorism and corruption to European migration. Got a suggestion for The Research Desk? Write me at gprice@mediasourceinc.com.
Twelve extraordinary stories from 12 countries are finalists in the sixth Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize which honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. The winners will be announced and presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference this October 10 in Lillehammer, Norway.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for August 26 to September 3: how to think visually (annavitals); beautiful evidence books (EdwardTufte); dating site scam (elespanol); Data Journalism Handbook (ddjournalism); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for August 16 to 27: a dating site’s sad truth (@gizmodo); cops & crime perception (@correctiv); using maps in data viz (@paulbradshaw); end of the Amazon (@InfoAmazonia); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for August 10 to 23: Africa ddj Initiative (@justinarenstein); mapping UK/Ireland pubs (@CityMetric); Amazon’s end (@InfoAmazonia); L.A. trash (@latimes); NSA patents (@alice_corona); Hacktivist toolbox (@POLITICOEurope).
Web scraping is a way to extract information presented on websites. As I explained it in the first installment of this article, web scraping is used by many companies. It’s also a great tool for reporters who know how to code, since more and more public institutions publish their data on their websites.
With web scrapers, which are also called “bots,” it’s possible to gather large amounts of data for stories. But what are the ethical rules that reporters have to follow while web scraping?
$8 billion in just a few hours earlier this year? It was because of a web scraper, a tool companies use—as do many data reporters. A web scraper is simply a computer program that reads the HTML code from webpages, and analyze it. With such a program, or “bot,” it’s possible to extract data and information from websites.
