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How did they do that: Coronavirus tracker edition
Joely Santa Cruz speaks to Michael Simmons about how he built his Edinburgh Coronavirus Data website.
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Statistical Excellence in Journalism Awards: familiar faces among Royal Statistical Society's 2020 winners
The BBC and FT were prominent among the 2020 winners, and have historically dominated the awards
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How to use Datawrapper for journalists
Are you new to data journalism and looking to explore ways to visualise your data? Look no further, here's 7 easy steps on how to use Datawrapper.
Audience & Social
14 data journalism and data visualisation Instagram accounts to follow
While Twitter is a journalist’s playground trying to find individual journalists on Instagram can be testing. But Instagram is the perfect platform to showcase creative and visually stimulating data-driven journalism. Additionally, Instagram's interactive tools make it more fun to engage with news. If you are interested
Audience & Social
Sociotope brings your online identity to life
While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool: Sociotope, a social media experiment which takes the data people leave behind in social networks and turns it into an interactive data visualisation. The free-to-use web app works with Twitter, Facebook and
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Making data visualisations for mobile with Quartz’s Chartbuilder
There appears to be a real appetite for new tools which attempt to make life easier for data journalists. Ranging from the advanced, like the powerful software for cleaning messy data Open Refine, to the simple interactive chart-maker Datawrapper, a real favourite among the data driven journalism community, data