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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: 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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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.
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10 Simple Data Errors That Can Ruin an Investigation
At the 2023 NICAR conference, GIJN talked with several data journalism experts and learned 10 simple data journalism errors to avoid that could ruin your investigation.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Best Dataviz, Westminster Accounts, Cosmetics Waste, Capitol Rioters Sentencing
Our most popular data journalism stories of the week include a UK political money tracking tool, Central Asia’s perception of the Russian war in Ukraine, and an analysis of the sentencing of rioters involved in the 2021 US Capitol attack.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Hollywood Blockbuster Diversity, Climate Inequities, Election Deniers, Toxic Twitter
Our weekly curation of the most popular and engaging data journalism stories looks at Hollywood blockbuster diversity, how climate change drives global inequity, tracking US election deniers, and toxic tweets aimed at UK politicians.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Police Shootings, COVID Billionaires, Climate Budget Tetris, Halloween Blizzard
Our weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter highlights non-fatal US police shootings, the rise and fall of COVID billionaires, racial disparities in internet service and road safety programs, and Minnesota’s great Halloween blizzard of 1991.
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Tips for Using Flourish to Visualize Elections Data
In Flourish’s recent webinar on effective elections and polling visualization, data journalist Mafe Callejón shared essential tips for building an interactive map from election results.
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Data Journalism Top 10: China’s Fishing Fleet, Queer Cinema, Hurricane Ian, Iran Protests
China’s global fishing operation is prompting concerns about overfishing and destruction of marine life and ecosystems and The New York Times mapped its global reach. Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter also highlights the queer cinema history in the Southeast Asian region, charted Hurricane Ian’s destructive path through the US, Iran’s protests for womens’ rights, and the social housing issues in Canada.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, Arctic Fires, Taiwan Street Food, Brain Drain
Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features The Financial Times’ 10 charts visualizing developments in the United Kingdom during Elizabeth’s reign, The Marshall Project’s look at how government Covid-19 relief funds were used, and Taiwan Data Stories’ scrollytelling project about Taiwan’s iconic street food.