Women represent 49.5% of the world’s population, but they do not have a corresponding public, political and social influence. In recent years, more and more women have raised their voices, making society aware of their challenges — data journalists included. To commemorate International Women’s Day, I have compiled a list of data journalism projects that explain and denounce …
Data journalists don’t always find the data they need for their stories. That might happen when the data doesn’t exist because it’s not collected or when the data is collected but it’s not available to the public. In the absence of data, one solution is to create our own dataset. To do this, it is …
Original image by GotCredit/Flickr Maps are a powerful tool to visualise data because they can explain stories with a high level of detail. You can show the data within countries, regions or even electoral wards. The only thing you need to know is how to work with KML files. The open source data cleaning tool Open Refine can help …
Image by Craig Chew-Moulding/Flickr CSV files are a common format when working with spreadsheets. The process to open a CSV file is really easy and usually takes only a couple of minutes, as this tutorial shows. However, what can you do if the standard process fails? You can use Open Refine, a powerful tool that can help …