What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for Dec. 23- Jan.4: NYT’s best graphics & visual stories (@NYT); programmers’ StackOverflow questions (@jbkunst); AI & disaster reporting (@ddjournalism); New Year’s tweets (@tomaspetricek); 2015 top #ddj tweets (@gijn).
Thanks to so many of you for following our weekly Top Ten #ddj, which uses NodeXL to do a social network analysis on data journalism tweets. Here’s our summary of the year’s best: the most popular hashtags, the most searched domains, and the top mentions. As we have through the year, GIJN sends big thanks to the great Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for Dec. 8-13: New book on ddj in newsrooms (@NiemanLab); a guide to bad data (@qz); persons of interest database (@pudo); US mass shootings (@washpost); terrorist attacks since 1970 (@datenblog); ddj en Ecuador; & more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for Nov. 17-22: ISIS killings mapped (@wireditalia); 50 years of #ddj (@gijn); Airbnb’s Spain limbo (@elespanolcom); traffic accident black spots (@AalenerNachr); and Kickstarting Tanzania ddj (@Code4Africa).
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for September 28-October 28: 140 data journalism tools (Silk); UK’s dirty money (PropertyWeek); EU energy lobbying (politicoeurope); Spain tax fraud (elespanol); and the real truth about data journalists (pirhoo).
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for September 17-24: refugee-crisis dataviz (webk1d); 230 examples of fiscal dataviz; ranking Swiss hospitals (RTSinfo); mapping Berlin (morgenpost); EU iPhones & tax money (zeitonline); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for September 3-9: Syrian Refugees in Europe (elmundoes); Nukes in Japan (StatisticsViews); Mapping Tennis (Natgeo); Rent Prices as Mountains (datenblog112); and the World’s Fastest Lifts (FT).
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the top ten links for July 9 to 16: +300 sites with free geographic datasets (@sciremotesense ); graphing German YouTube (@SPIEGELOLINE); Australia’s mining footprint (@ICIJorg); democratizing data (OKFN); and more.
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are the Top Ten links for Jul 2 – 9: San Fermin’s Running of the Bulls (@elmundodata); democratizing the data revolution (@OKFN); #ddj at Netzwerk Recheche’s Conference (@berndoswald); prison phone calls (@IBTimes); 12 tips for #ddj; and more.
Nils Mulvad, co-founder and board member of GIJN, and Helena Bengtsson, editor for the Data Projects Team at the Guardian, share twelve tips on how to use data for stories. These were presented at the 2015 Netzwerk Recherche Conference in Hamburg.
