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

What’s the global #ddj community tweeting about? Our NodeXL mapping from July 10 to 16 has Dwarshuis on the Airbnb takeover of Amsterdam, @blprnt on taking a systems approach to data and @SPIEGELONLINE ‏ and @Correctiv_org on Big Pharma’s payments to doctors.

Watch Airbnb Take Over Amsterdam

Dwarshuis illustrates the Airbnb phenomenon in Amsterdam since the company launched, with a dot showing the first time an apartment was rented out in the city, along with the name of the owner.

Scary visualisation of the .@airbnb‘ation of #Amsterdam https://t.co/i5f13IuOrd pic.twitter.com/u3XbuCVv1b

— Padraig O’Mara (@beyourownreason) July 16, 2017

You Say Data, I Say System

@blprnt ‏says taking a systems approach to data thinking allows you not only to solve problems more efficiently, but to more deeply understand (and critique) the data machinery that ubiquitously affects our day-to-day lives.

“You Say Data, I Say System” by @blprnt https://t.co/zGBfYugfP2

— Melissa Zeligman (@mellyzelly) July 18, 2017

On Big Pharma’s Payroll

In 2016, the pharmaceutical industry paid €562 million to physicians and clinics, with only a quarter of all doctors reporting these revenues openly, reported @SPIEGELONLINE and @Correctiv_org.

2016 hat die Pharmaindustrie 562Mio€ an Mediziner & Kliniken gezahlt. Nur jeder vierte Arzt legt die Zahlungen offen https://t.co/l5bTnolCTJ pic.twitter.com/Sf6gB2rXaM

— SPIEGEL ONLINE (@SPIEGELONLINE) July 14, 2017

Cologne: Inside the Archbishop’s Crypt

Germany’s Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger offers a 360 view inside Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner’s last resting place in the Cologne Cathedral.

Kardinal #Meisner wird in der Gruft im Dom beigesetzt: Unser 360-Grad-Video zeigt, wo genau. #Köln #KölnerDom https://t.co/JkLDROhgWH

— ksta.de/koeln (@ksta_koeln) July 13, 2017

In Mapping, Size Matters

Bigger areas on maps can overshadow the smallest ones, leading us to make false assumptions about the underlying data. @MusMekh shows how to better represent your data.

A trick from @MusMekh to help your #maps accurately represent your #data: https://t.co/9ZjjdeIl3F #ddj @ejcnet pic.twitter.com/qNdcViiGu7

— DataDrivenJournalism (@ddjournalism) July 10, 2017

Data Viz: The Book

Data Visualization for All is an open-access textbook which provides a friendly introduction to data visualization, with step-by-step tutorials, video screencasts and real-world examples. Featured tools include Google Sheets, Tableau Public, Carto, Highcharts, Leaflet and GitHub.

Check out this free book and online course for a friendly introduction to #dataviz: https://t.co/BhPYc0x9Nt #ddj @ejcnet pic.twitter.com/8jZvJpOag4

— DataDrivenJournalism (@ddjournalism) July 16, 2017

Data Journalism Grows, But Essential Training Doesn’t

Data journalism is attracting younger reporters who have undergraduate degrees but little training in data-oriented fields like statistics and coding, the Global Data Journalism survey found.

International #datajournalism study finds the field is growing, but training in statistics and coding is not: https://t.co/zcHSmg3XGF pic.twitter.com/MXTXJhYvXh

— Society of Pro Journ (@spj_tweets) July 17, 2017

By the Numbers: Immigrants in Switzerland

Using data provided by the Federal Statistical Office to the National Centre of Competence in Research for migration and mobility studies, @swissinfo_en retraced 15 years of migratory movements of foreigners who arrived in Switzerland in 1998.

Nice article based on our Migration-Mobility Indicatorshttps://t.co/lt0bs1aYaI

— nccr – on the move (@nccr_onthemove) July 17, 2017

Visualizing Geographic Data in R

This post by @NickDoesData focuses on using the R visualization package ggplot2, which is found in the tidyverse package.

Check out my latest blog: Visualizing Geographic Data in R https://t.co/LzsD9dE4Vs

— Nick Heitzman (@NickDoesData) July 12, 2017

More R: Packages for Interactive Plots and Visualizations

@AntGuilllot shows the best packages for network and graph data, sequential data, hierarchical data and textual data.

ICYMI, feat. lots o’ @timelyportfolio: “A pick of best R ?s for interactive viz” by @AntGuilllot https://t.co/6sgT7u5ofx #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/22XCgmugRF

— Mara Averick (@dataandme) July 15, 2017

Doing Data Journalism for Audio

@paulbradshaw offers up examples from his MA in data journalism at Birmingham City University to give you inspiration for telling data stories using audio.

Data journalism on radio, audio and podcastshttps://t.co/JUKZeowcNl

— IRPI (@irpinvestigates) July 16, 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.