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How Women Are Driving a Golden Age of Data Journalism in Kenya
Eunice Magwambo, Purity Mukami, and Juliet Atellah discuss their work and challenges facing data journalists in their home country of Kenya.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Abortion Pill Access, India Surpasses China, Pandemic Pets Boom
This week’s data journalism roundup digs into abortion pill access in the US, India’s population surpassing China, the illusion of reforestation as a solution for climate change, and the boom in owning pets during the pandemic.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Bitcoin’s Energy Impact, LGBTQ Rights in Africa, Pensions & Lattes, Taylor Swift’s Big Tour
This week’s data journalism roundup highlights a New York Times investigation into the energy and environmental impacts of bitcoin mining, Reuters’ look at anti-homosexuality laws across the African continent, mapping of Switzerland’s residential density, and a visualization of Lionel Messi’s decorated football career.
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New Document Tools to Unearth Redacted Text, Personal Information, and More
DocumentCloud now includes many more cutting-edge functions — which include extracting personal identification information embedded in large files, importing data from programs like Google Drive, transcribing YouTube audio, and even peering through weak blackout redactions.
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Data Journalism Top 10: AR-15 Gun Violence, US Mortality, Water Scarcity, Russian Atrocities
In this week’s Data Journalism Top 10, The Washington Post did a 10-story deep dive on issues related to gun violence and the deadly AR-15 weapon after yet another school shooting. Our weekly roundup also features a look at global water scarcity hotspots, Russian war atrocities, and the enduring appeal of British television shows.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Organ Donations, EU Drug Use, Layoffs Language, and Russian Censorship
GIJN’s weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a look the impact of changes to organ donation rules in the US, drug usage in Europe based on wastewater analysis, a text analysis of layoff memos written by tech industry chief executives, and an examination of protests across Russia in 2022.
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Testing the Potential of Using ChatGPT to Extract Data from PDFs
Converting text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets is tedious and expensive work. To see how well AI tool ChatGPT can extract data from PDFs, data journalist Brandon Roberts wrote a Python script to convert two document sets to spreadsheets.
Data Journalism News & Analysis
Honoring the Best in Data Journalism: Winners of the 2023 Sigma Awards
Winning entries at this year’s Sigma Awards focused on the war in Ukraine, air pollution, rising sea levels, political candidates, and road accidents involving schoolchildren, and used data, satellite imagery, gaming techniques, and 3D imagery to create compelling stories.
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Measuring and Increasing the Effects of Investigative Journalism
Watchdog reporting makes a critical contribution to society by exposing wrongdoing, fighting corruption, and promoting accountability. But how do we measure this, and explain to a skeptical public the value of investigative reporting? At a time of unprecedented attacks on the press, a broken financial model, and low public trust, it is critical to understand […]
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Data Journalism Top 10: Climate Crises, Tech Layoffs, Border Fences, and Banned Books
This week our top ten in data journalism features stories digging into the link between Ebola outbreaks and deforestation, on the stark impact of global warming on everything from crop yields to species loss, and the undeniable increase in the number of hot nights in Singapore.