Data Journalism

• http://datajournalismhandbook.org/
• Overview – Visual document mining for journalists – “Overview is an open-source tool originally designed to help journalists find stories in large numbers of documents, by automatically sorting them according to topic and providing a fast visualization and reading interface. It’s also used for qualitative research, social media conversation analysis, legal document review, digital humanities, and more.” http://overview.ap.org/about/
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/four-crowdsourcing-lessons-from-the-guardians-spectacular-expenses-scandal-experiment/
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/07/amnesty-international-launches-a-new-site-to-help-journalists-verify-youtube-videos/
• https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/ – “Upload a PDF, get back tabular CSV data.”
• http://gigaom.com/2014/07/18/want-to-help-fact-check-breaking-news-like-the-malaysian-airplane-disaster-heres-how-and-where-you-can-do-it/
• http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/public – Tableau Public is a free tool for data visualization, and now has a Mac version.
• How to find out if a photo your friend posted online is fake
• Extract text from any document; no muss, no fuss. – July 27, 2014
• Arms Identification With Wikipedia, Holiday Photographs, and Shoe Size Conversion Charts – July 27, 2014 – Eliot Higgins – Bellingcat – by and for citizen investigative journalists
• Meet Dadaviz: A Curated, YouTube-Style Distribution Platform For Data Visualizations – Sept. 22, 2014