How-To
Data journalism is ever-evolving and so are the tools of the trade. Aside from Microsoft Excel (which I’ve blogged about here and here), these are the tools which are, in my opinion, the most useful for data journalism at the moment. Google Fusion Tables The gateway drug for
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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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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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Many Eyes is one of the better free online tools for making quick data visualisations - here is our guide to putting one together.