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Events for all aspiring data journalists to join:
Events and clubs for all aspiring journalists to attend - including some great online forums.
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12 data journalists you need to follow on Twitter
Data journalism is gaining importance in our day and age. Increasingly, readers look to data journalists for statistics and facts to find the ‘truth’ of a story.
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Five things we learned from The Times' Build The News
Unlike the past few years when Build the News focused on hacky concepts and newsroom tools, last weekend’s event went back to basics— telling a story. University students, under the guidance of The Times’ journalists, coders, developers and data analysts, set out to build and tell their stories in
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Megan Lucero interview: 'all journalism will eventually be data journalism'
Hailing from a tiny Californian town, where the main mode of transport takes the literal measurement of horse power, Megan Lucero is quite the outlier. The energetic 27-year-old – who was remarkably promoted from intern to data editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in just four years
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19 ways to find great data: tips from leading light Marianne Bouchart
Queen of data Marianne Bouchart shared her top data portals - and a few tricks - at this month's news:rewired conference. Bouchart is Communications Director and Data Journalism Awards Manager at the Global Editors' Network. She founded Hei-Da.org, a not-for-profit specialising in data-driven
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Interview with data visualiser Ri Liu
We speak to Ri Liu about the importance of design in telling interactive stories.
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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