Audience & Social
Introducing: three social media tools you may not have tried yet
Exploring and experimenting with three tools, their pros and their cons.
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Number of refugees rises steeply in Brazil and mildly in the UK. Brave new world ahead?
The number of refugees applying to live in Brazil increased more than three times since 2010, according to United Nations figures just released. In 2012, there were more than 2,000 people asking for shelter in the South American country. That is just one tenth of the number in the
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Infographic: battle of the social sexes
InternetSeviceProviders.org show us how different social media sites tend to be dominated by one of the two sexes.
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Data Journalism Awards 2013 Shortlist Released
I blogged earlier in the year on the 2013 Data Journalism Awards and promised to keep you posted, and can now reveal that the shortlist has been announced. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, The Global Editors Network announced their 72 finalists, with the shortlisted candidates representing 19
Audience & Social
Crowdsourcing data-driven journalism resources: it's simpler than you think
Crowdsourcing can be less complicated than people think and it is an asset very few newsrooms think about now. That is the experience of Marcelo Träsel, a journalist and lecturer on Digital Journalism at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. His experience in data
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WiFi censorship: How big can the problem be?
David Cameron has announced plans that could see public WiFi censored to stop people downloading porn in public places. Now, I can't say I've seen people ever doing this myself but, if one wanted to, how many places could you actually download porn? There are a
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Google Fusion Tables for Dummies
When I say "dummies", I really mean myself. Just so we're all aware. Anyway, for my final project I plan to make a fusion table of NIMBY requests in the UK, but before I do that, I figured that I had to practice. I've
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Mapping income inequality along train tracks
Before taking the data journalism class with Paul and James, data visualisations were just an aspect of reporting I took entirely for granted. In my mind, it was almost as if visualisations just appeared out of thin air, or they were something that could be easily done with Photoshop (Photoshop
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Word clouds: the bane of James' existence
I know James Ball hates word clouds more than anything else on earth (besides the City computers, maybe), but in the US media, a story has come up that has actually taken the spotlight off of the Boston bombings. This is a story for the ages, and, frankly, I can
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How to use Data Wrapper
I finally was able to visualise my UN Arms Trade Treaty vote data thanks to Mauricio showing me DataWrapper. It’s even easier to use than Many Eyes, for that reason, you’re getting a how-to guide. 1) Same as with Many Eyes, upload your data: 2) Then you’
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A step-by-step guide to Many Eyes
After a few weeks of leaving my UN Arms Trade Treaty vote data alone, it finally came to me: I overcomplicated the process. For what I wanted to do – input the data and make a bubble chart – I never needed the entire list of countries; I just needed the numbers.
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Florida newspaper wins Pulitzer for data journalism
Growing up in South Florida, there weren’t many professional outlets available for aspiring journalists. If you lived in Broward or Palm Beach counties, your allegiance was to the Sun-Sentinel, and if you grew up in Miami-Dade, you “worked” for the Miami Herald. My two years writing for