Resources

Links for data visualization literacy

Source, via Knight Mozilla's OpenNews

Thought leaders in the online journalism discuss and share best practices on data journalism and news application development.

• Surviving the News Business
• How We Made "Failure Factories"
• If Your Reporters Aren't Making Their Own Charts You're Wasting Everyone's Time
• Rethinking the Building Blocks of a Chronicle Interactive

Storybench, via Northeastern University

Showcases innovative online storytelling techniques and explains the process for others to reproduce.

• How the Wall Street Journal built a series of artful animations for an investigative series
• How Scientific American makes its infographics
• How to create a GIF from a video, a screencast, or a bunch of images
• How to build a Google Spreadsheet that auto-tweets your archives

Investigative Reporters and Editors

A wonderful organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. Their blog, podcast and listserv is excellent to pick up ideas for future projects or stories. Their Behind the Story posts detail how reporters broke huge, impactful stories.

• How USA TODAY pieced together a confidential FBI database to count fugitives who go free
• How the WSJ uncovered a flawed system of reporting police killings
• Investigative Reporters and Editors | Behind the Story: How NPR and ProPublica exposed problems with the Red Cross’ response to Superstorm Sandy

Walkthroughs from class

• How to make pivot tables in Google Sheets
• Getting started with Github desktop app
• Investigating homicide stats
• Introduction to Plotly
• Joining with Google Fusion Tables
• Extracting data from a PDF
• Joining data and making a map with Google Fusion table
• The different types of data vizualizations (And links to how to make them)
• More Fusion Tables fun - Choropleth maps
• Cleaning up data with Open Refine
• Scraping data with Data Miner
• Scraping data without programming using Import.io
• Some advanced data work in Open Refine
• Another way to make a Choropleth map
• Gathering data by using IFTTT
• Hosting your website on Github Pages
• Introduction to CartoDB
• Advanced CartoDB
• Timelines and story maps
• Getting and visualizing Census data
• Using Census Reporter
• Github Redux
• Build a blog with Jekyll and Github Pages
• Highcharts.JS walkthrough
• Converting data to JSON format
• Making D3 charts using D3Plus.js
• Leaflet map walkthrough
• Intro to R
• Making a map with R
• More advanced visualizations with R

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