How-To
CartoDB logo Knowing how to create interactive maps can be a very useful skill for a data journalist, and there is an easy, free online tool that allows you to do just that. From election results to cycling accidents, CartoDB allows you to make many clean-looking visualisations with your
Data
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. At least that’s how the saying goes and how the wider public feel, for some reason people tend to distrust something with numbers backing it more than if it doesn’t. Well that’s just completely wrong, but the problem is that numbers can
Data
Ever wanted to scrape something with OutWit Hub but the data you want is tied up in ugly HTML tags that change with each new piece of information? Regular expressions - known as regex - are often an easy way of getting around them. These are sequences of symbols and characters which
Audience & Social
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don't just affect local newspapers, but it hits them worse. So why have I written a social media style guide principally aimed at locals? Because, generally, they have fewer resources to invest in their social
Data
If you’re interested in dataviz, you’ve probably been hearing a whole bunch about D3. When you stumble across a really creative-looking visualisation, chances are it’ll have been made with D3. Yes, it’s hyped, and there are a million tutorials out there and it can all
How-To
I recently finished a couple weeks' worth of shifts at The Times, working on the digital team as a community manager. My duties included posting articles to social media and compiling reports on site analytics, but the job that I spent most of my time on (and found the
How-To
So you want to get started with coding, but don’t know where to start. It can feel like a daunting project, possibly because many of us have the idea of coding being some kind of dark art, with lots of complicated syntax to get right. Thankfully, the internet is
How-To
Get retweets, get paid. Tweet differently. Everyone else is tweeting where the march is, where it's going, how many people there are... Zzzz. Why do you want to be like them? Find your own voice, present things a little differently and maybe you'll get noticed. https:
Data
A quick and hopefully not too depressing look at the disparity between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the EU.
Data
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
Data
Piktochart is a website that allows you to create infographics in an easy way. With its simple and clear style, it’s perfect for small datasets that can be explored from a number of different angles. I am going to take you through the process of creating an infographic using
Data
Nassos Stylianou introduces you to the various tools used for extracting data from PDFs, and weighs up their pros and cons...