What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for March 14-21: undercovered stories (@JigsawTeam); NICAR links (@MacDiva); Madrid conference (@JPDatos); podcasts (@carlapedret); GEN Awards (@GENinnovate); R for annotations (@hrbrmstr); German elections (@zeitonline).
Data journalism is thriving worldwide, but is American journalism education keeping up? Funded by the Knight Foundation, our research team set out to survey and analyze the state of data journalism education in the U.S. today. The results are being published and available online as a free report, Teaching Data and Computational Journalism, that provides model curricula for a range of computational and data journalism courses.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Mar. 3-8: designing lists (@edwardtufte); Zurich streets (@NZZ); Lesbos journey (@washingtonpost); Google Maps storytelling (@GoogleNewsLab); German bridges (@SPIEGELONLINE); data science guides (@KirkDBorne); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Feb. 23-Mar. 1: earthdata search (@ddjournalism); Hyblab #ddj projects (@hyblab); Is data journalism for everybody?; a city transformation in 3D (@LeTelegramme); Spanish data presentation (@cabralens); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Feb. 10-15: refugee crisis (@EJOnews); Africa ddj academy (@code4africa); School of Data fellowships (@schoolofdata); data sketching (@jawalnut); visualizing femicides (@ddjournalism); Nigeria data site (@budgitng).
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Feb. 3-9: 5 great dataviz (@neilhalloran); regression analysis (@schoolofdata); guessing correlations (@omarwagih); csv datasets (@gilleti); HybLab Datajournalisme (@HybLab); Madrid pollution (@eldiarioes); & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Jan. 18-25: Inside the Tennis Racket investigation (@buzzfeed); Mapping Berlin (@morgenpost); Africa grants (@impactAfrica); automated journalism (@towcenter); Amazon deforestation (@infoamazonia); teaching #ddj in EU.
A data-driven investigation that exposed the human cost of school re-segregation in central Florida is the first-place winner of the 2015 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. Investigations that explored the growth of diversity in American cities and revealed the small cadre of attorneys who dominate the U.S. Supreme Court docket are also top winners. The Meyer Award, given annually by Investigative Reporters and Editors, recognizes the best use of social science methods in journalism.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Jan. 11- 17: Eleven common situations with data (@LocalFocusNL); 2015 in charts (@nytimes); Quartz guide to bad data (@gijn); text document extractor scripts (@pudo); DW Akademie trainees (@dw_akademie); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top links for Jan. 5- 11: Awesome public datasets (@github); 20 ways to find data (@journalismnews); 19th Century big data (@ddjournalism); tilemaps & dataviz in Switzerland (@rastrau); Carnival in Germany (@Schwaebische); and more.
