Data
Ampp3d's Martin Belam tells us what makes a winning data visualisation. What Ampp3d’s about There have been a couple of things at the heart of what we are trying to do with Ampp3d. First of all we are trying to answer the question: What does “data journalism”
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Nicolas Belmonte tells Interhacktives what being a Data Scientist at Twitter involves, and what advice he would give to aspiring data journalists. When Barack Obama presented his State of Union speech earlier this year, Nicolas Belmonte and The Guardian’s former datablog editor Simon Rogers created a data visualisation that
How-To
Zachary Davies teaches you how to make maps with Datawrapper...
Data
Here's a simple guide to Raw. You can make alluvial diagrams, which represents flows and changes in network structures, and so much more.
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Read our live blog from the Big Data Debate.
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Import.io aims to make extracting data from the internet incredibly simple. This demo on import.io’s website shows it is as easy as highlighting an example of the bits of data you want from the website and the algorithm sorting out the rest. It launched last October at
Audience & Social
There is no NGO with bigger global acclaim in the fight against corruption, no matter where it is, than Transparency International. The organization turns 20 years old this month and it has tried in the last few years to adapt by monitoring not only what documents and officials say, but
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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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InternetSeviceProviders.org show us how different social media sites tend to be dominated by one of the two sexes.
Data
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
Interviews
Interhacktives report live from the February Hacks/Hackers London meetup on all things digital storytelling...
Data
James Ball is a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations team, which he joined after working for Wikileaks and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He is the Washington Post Laurence Stern Fellow for 2012 and visiting lecturer at City University London for the Interactive Journalism course. I interviewed him