Data Journalism
- Meet Sqoop: New tool helps reporters dig up stories, delivering alerts about public records – April 22, 2015 a new online tool that alerts journalists when public documents become available online
- 15 tips for newsgathering via Twitter – Sarah Marshall, Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2015
- Drilling Down: A Quick Guide to Free and Inexpensive Data Tools – Feb. 25, 2015 from Global Investigative Journalism Network
- FEMA has released a new data visualization tool. – Jan. 9, 2015
- Google Chrome browser extensions for journalists – Jan. 7, 2015
- Scrape Web Pages with YQL and Apps Script – Dec. 2, 2014 AMIT AGARWAL
- The New York Times open-sources its Hive crowdsourcing platform – Dec. 9, 2014
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Introducing Charted
A new way to share data – Charted is a tool that automatically visualizes data. Give it the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, shareable visualization of that data. – Nov. 24, 2014 Medium.com - Dataminr is now available for news organizations – Oct. 8, 2014
- Meet Dadaviz: A Curated, YouTube-Style Distribution Platform For Data Visualizations – Sept. 22, 2014
- 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
- 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.http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/four-crowdsourcing-lessons-from-the-guardians-spectacular-expenses-scandal-experiment/– July 27, 2014Arms Identification With Wikipedia, Holiday Photographs, and Shoe Size Conversion Charts– July 27, 2014 – Eliot Higgins –Bellingcat – by and for citizen investigative journalistsMeet Dadaviz: A Curated, YouTube-Style Distribution Platform For Data Visualizations– Sept. 22, 2014Dataminr is now available for news organizations– Oct. 8, 2014Scrape Web Pages withYQLand Apps Script– Dec. 2, 2014AMITAGARWALIntroducing ChartedA new way to share data– Charted is a tool that automatically visualizes data. Give it the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, shareable visualization of that data. – Nov. 24, 2014 Medium.comThe New York Times open-sources its Hive crowdsourcing platform– Dec. 9, 2014Google Chrome browser extensions for journalists– Jan. 7, 2015FEMAhas released a new data visualization tool.– Jan. 9, 2015Drilling Down: A Quick Guide to Free and Inexpensive Data Tools– Feb. 25, 2015 fromGlobal Investigative Journalism Network