What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for May 23-30: a racist algorithm (@ProPublica); Spain’s female politicians (@elespanolcom); German anti-refugee violence (@Julian_Moe); US election (@ddjournalism); satellite imagery (@webk1d); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for May 13-24: Best dataviz of the year (@Gizmodo); 85 tools for digital journos (@Journalism2ls); missing women in Mexico (@Univ_Data); how to analyze big leaks (@M_Mandalka); news graphics collection (@marijerr); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for May 3-12: #ddj awards (@GENinnovate); China’s EU stereotypes (@foreignpolicy); Atlantic slave trade (@slate); French employment (@Data_Match); Germany’s green cities (@morgenpost); bubble maps (@datawrapper); & more.
Only one-tenth of national data is really open and free, according to the third annual Open Data Barometer by the World Wide Web Foundation. “The open data movement is at a turning point,” the report finds. “If we allow this moment to slip away, however, open data could fade into a ghost town of abandoned pilots, outdated data portals, and unused apps.”
The trove of files that make up the Panama Papers is likely the largest dataset of leaked insider information in the history of journalism. For ICIJ’s Data and Research Unit, it offered a unique set of challenges. The overall size of the data (2.6 terabytes, 11.5 million files), the variety of file types (from spreadsheets, emails and PDFs to obscure and old formats no longer in use), and the logistics of making it all securely searchable for more than 370 journalists around the world are just a few of the hurdles faced over the course of the 12 month investigation.
Facebook and Google and their humongous data crunching machines flourish while fine media wilt. How to compete? They take media’s original costly-to-produce-content for free and make it available to users to circulate, anticipating their needs with their intelligent algorithms.
Some of the best tips and techniques come out of the annual meetings by our colleagues in Scandinavia, and this year is no different. More than 600 participants attended the SKUP conference in Tønsberg, Norway, on April 8-10. Among the tip sheets presented was this gem of 25 practical tips that reporters in even the smallest newsrooms can use to good effect, focused on finding great characters and cases to bring your story to life.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for April 26-May 2: Pirated Papers (@sciencemagazine); Panama Papers tech (@ICIJorg); Europe Open Research (@ddjournalism); Water Webinar (@code4africa); 6 Data Story Rules (@DataScienceCtrl); German E-Cars (@BR24); & more.
Friday, November 13, 2015 was a strangely balmy night in Paris, the kind that makes visitors fall in love with the city. People spilled out of the cafés, winding down the workweek over glasses of wine, their chatter and laughter creating a soft hubbub on the streets, as pedestrians sidestepped the crow
The story published in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog ended up being about race, but it didn’t start out that way. Nick Diakopoulos, who leads the lab, wrote for the Wonkblog last year with a story on how surge pricing motivates Uber drivers to move to those surging areas, but does not increase the number of drivers on the road as Uber claims.
