Data Visualization
Data Journalism: A collection of resources

Data Journalism: About
Tutorials

Tools
Methods
Datasets
Projects
Multimedia / Storytelling

Data Journalism: About

Quelle: Journalism in the Age of Data


- Journalism in the Age of Data Video
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization Video
- Articles & Videos on Visual Literacy and Knowledge Visualization
- Report from EJC’s data-driven journalism Amsterdam round-table (pdf)
Tutorials:

Foto: Moleskinet.net, flickr

- How to be a data journalist
- Data Visualization Tutorials
- How to Make Bubble Charts
Tools:

Microsoft PivotViewer

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- 10 Free Data Visualization Tools
- 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization
- Data journalism pt4: visualising data – tools and publishing
- Mapping crowdsourced contributions
- New Visualization Tool from Google With Data From 5.2 Million Digitized Books

Tools:
- API Playground

- Compedium / Video-Tutorial
- Data Converter (Shan Carter)
- Document Cloud
- Forrester’s Consumer Profile Tool
- Gapminder Desktop
- Global Web Index

- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Google Code Playground
- Google Insights
- Google Public Data Explorer
- ManyEyes
- Microsoft Silverlight PivotViewer

- Open Calais
- OpenHeatMap
- Open Knowledge Foundation, CKAN
- Python/Django
- ScraperWiki
- Social Collider
- Tableau
- Touchgraph
- Wordle

- Yahoo Pipes
- Zemanta
Methods:

A periodic Table of visualization methods

- A periodic table of visualization methods
- Knowledge Cartography: Preface
Datasets:

Foto: Robin Hamman, flickr

- offenedaten.de
- OpenBerlin.net
- World Bank Opens More Datasets, Challenges Developers to Build Apps
- My top ten data.gov.uk datasets - a guest post by Simon Rogers
- Social Explorer - easy access to demographic information about the United States from 1790 to the present
Projects:

Foto: Jer Thorp, flickr

- Six Stunning Projects That Show the Power of Data Visualization
- Alles Projektion: Bevölkerungsverteilung
- Zeigen, was die Wähler interessiert
- WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down
- 10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010
- Mapping America: Every City, Every Block / Social Explorer Data and Analysis on New York Times Front Page
Multimedia / Storytelling:

Foto: Dan Zen, flickr

- MediaStorm

Hashtag: #ddj

 
How to: get to grips with data journalism

Only a couple of years ago, the idea that journalists would need to know how to use a spreadsheet would have been laughed out of the newsroom. Now those benighted days are way behind us and extracting stories out of data is part of every journalist's toolkit of skills. Read more

Simon Rogers, journalism.co.uk
25.01.2011

 
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. Read more

youtube.com
26.11.2010

Related Articles:
- The Joy of Stats
 
Leaks & Infovis

Mercedes Bunz und Simon Rogers vom englischen Guardian untersuchen das Feld Datenjournalismus

2011 wird der Datenjournalismus das noch größere Ding. Ob das in unserer Mediengesellschaft dieselbe Hysterie wie Blogger auslösen, ist noch unklar. Das Zeug dazu hätten sie. Mehr dazu

Mercedes Bunz, de-bug.de
Ausgabe 148

 
How to Make Bubble Charts

Quelle: flowingdata

Ever since Hans Rosling presented a motion chart to tell his story of the wealth and health of nations, there has been an affinity for proportional bubbles on an x-y axis. This tutorial is for the static version of the motion chart: the bubble chart. Sometimes you don't need to animate your data over time. Read more

flowingdata.com
23.11.2010

 
Journalism in the Age of Data

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays? Read more

Chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Data Visualization in Journalism
3. Telling "Data Stories"
4. A new Era in Inforgraphics
5. Life as a Data Stream
6. Exploring Data
7. Technologies and Tools
8. First Steps

Geoff McGhee, datajournalism.stanford.edu
29.09.2010

Fassung mit Links und Hintergründen

Mehr zum Thema:
- A periodic table of visualization methods
- OpenData und Lokaljournalismus (Scoopcamp HH 2010)
- Mapping crowdsourced contributions
- Der Journalismus aus der Datenbank steht noch am Anfang
- Articles & Videos on Visual Literacy and Knowledge Visualization
 
10 Great Data Visualization Tools

Here are 10 free data visualizations tools; some provide the metrics, whilst the others highlight relationships between data, as well as displaying the information in a visual, understandable and digestible way. Read more

Ben Cotton, socialwebthing.com
06.11.2010

 
Datenjournalismus für Einsteiger

Eine faszinierende Perspektive: Kein Wunder, dass das Thema auch bei uns derzeit viele helle Köpfe begeistert; Datenjournalismus ist auf dem Weg zum Modewort, und innovative Redaktionen haben längst mit Fingerübungen begonnen. Mehr dazu

Jan Eggers, eggers-elektronik.de
26.10.2010

Mehr zum Thema:
- How to be a data journalist
- Journalism in the Age of Data (Video)
- Open Data im Lokaljournalismus – Folien vom Scoopcamp 2010
- The Times’ Effective iPad Infographics (Video)
- Irak-Protokolle: Zähmung einer Datenflut (Übersicht der Umsetzungen)
 
Schreiben nach Zahlen

Journalisten durchsuchen in Zukunft Datenbanken - coole Detektivarbeit ist das nicht

Mein Textverarbeitungsprogramm kennt das Wort "investigativ" nicht und markiert es deshalb immer als Rechtschreibfehler. Ich finde das bezeichnend. Die wenigsten Journalisten arbeiten investigativ - und Microsoft weiß das. Der Begriff ist offenbar so selten wirklich angemessen, dass er grundsätzlich erst einmal als Fehler angesehen wird. Dabei bezeichnet er die Königsklasse des Journalismus, und jeder Redakteur träumt davon, einmal mit investigativen Mitteln einen echten Scoop zu produzieren. Mehr dazu

Patrick Beuth, berlinonline.de
06.10.2010

Mehr zum Thema:
- How to be a data journalist
- Journalism in the Age of Data
- World Bank Opens More Datasets, Challenges Developers to Build Apps
- My top ten data.gov.uk datasets - a guest post by Simon Rogers
 
How to be a data journalist

Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it:

1. Finding data
2. Interrogating data
3. Visualising data
4. Mashing data
How to begin?

Read more

Paul Bradshaw, guardian.co.uk
03.10.2010

 
Data-driven journalism: Only the start

This is an open call to anyone interested in data-driven journalism - which should be an important part of the journalism industry’s future. Following up on the EJC roundtable held in Amsterdam on August 24 we have compiled the main messages of the great speakers present on the day into a PDF report, now available to download for free. Read more

Download the free PDF report from EJC’s data-driven journalism Amsterdam round-table

Mirco Lorenz, ejc.net
30.09.2010

Related Articles:
- Fräulein Schiller Sammlung: Visualisierungen (Diashow)
- Data Journalism: the View from Europe
 


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