Data Journalism

• Emily Bamforth wrote a thesis on Twitter and its use by foreign correspondents – April 2015
• The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches that you probably haven’t considered – April 27, 2015
• Towards a Standard for Algorithmic Transparency in the Media – Tow Center for Digital Journalism – April 27, 2015
• 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
• A Tool for Instant Data Visualizations – April 9, 2015 How News Corp, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, and NYC Media Lab are working together to build something new
• 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
• 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/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
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/four-crowdsourcing-lessons-from-the-guardians-spectacular-expenses-scandal-experiment/