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Basic Data Journalism Tips for Editors
At the NICAR22 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, journalism trainer MaryJo Webster offered a series of basic tips for editors who have little to no data analysis skills.
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Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Tracking Russia’s War, Ukraine’s Refugees, COVID-19 Polarization, Clothing Waste, Banh Mi
Our weekly round-up of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features an item from The Washington Post on refugees crossing Ukraine’s borders, an examination of vaccine hesitancy in the US, a look at how the coronavirus pandemic has changed life in the UK, and mapping the price of the Vietnamese staple of bánh mì in Australia.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Ukraine-Russia Conflict, Suisse Secrets, Figure Skating Quads, and Data Journalism Survey
This week’s curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a breakdown of Russia’s export ties to Europe, a global collaborative investigation led by Süddeutsche Zeitung and OCCRP into a Swiss bank leak, results from DataJournalism.com’s 2021 State of Data Journalism survey, and a New York Times report on the quadruple jump revolution in women’s figure skating.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Olympic Bias, Electric Vehicles, Redlining’s Legacy, and Pandemic Violence
Our weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter looks at the US transition from gas-powered to electric vehicles, the legacy of racially discriminatory housing practices, and an analysis of judging bias in Olympic ski jumping.
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9 Essential Mapping Tools for Journalists in 2022
Learning to make appealing and informative maps to support your investigative journalism is well worth doing. The good news is that there are significantly more mapping tools available today than there were five years ago and many of them have become very powerful.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Misrepresenting Women, Bubble Tea, and India’s Nightingale
Our weekly NodeXL curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter includes a look at how women in the headlines can be used to perpetuate existing stereotypes, an examination of how large pockets of unvaccinated individuals are driving the pandemic in the US, and a fun make-your-own bubble tea interactive adventure.
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Tips for Investigating Hate Crimes and Violence When Government Data Sources Fail
Journalist Rachel Chitra used news reports to build a database on hate crimes and violence in India. Here she gives tips for reporters facing a data gap, and offers lessons learned from her research about how journalists can reliably step in to gather, clean, and publish data when the government fails to keep track of important information.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Snowless Winter Olympics, Food’s Carbon Footprint, Illegal Mining
Our weekly NodeXL curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features several climate change-related stories: snowless Winter Olympics, a look at the carbon footprint of popular food, how the world’s largest beef producer is fueling deforestation in the Amazon, and a Climate Promise Detector project reviewing the stance of presidential candidates on climate change in Costa Rica.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Tonga’s Volcano, US Congress & Slavery, Mapping Ukraine, British Teeth
Many of the lawmakers who made up the historical ranks of the United States Congress had a personal relationship with slavery with more than 1,700 being slaveowners, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. Our weekly NodeXL curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter also features a visualization of the size of the Tonga eruption, an analysis of how Twitter is being used ahead of a high-stakes election in the Philippines, and a critique of some of the maps used to illustrate the situation on the Russia-Ukraine border amid fears of a military incursion.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Wordle Wins, Djokovic Drama, and UK’s Partygate Scandal
If you’re a word puzzle addict and active on Twitter, you’ll have come across the latest craze — Wordle. Al Jazeera Labs analyzed the puzzle’s word bank to give tips on how to tackle the game strategically. Our weekly NodeXL curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter also features an analysis of shopping habits during the pandemic, an examination of vaccination rates among elite athletes, details on the scandal shaking UK politics, and an interactive mini-golf game illustrating how gerrymandering — the manipulation of electoral boundaries — plays out in various US states.