Data Journalism Awards 2018: Discover the shortlist
99 projects across 12 categories were nominated in this year's competition.
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Arsène Wenger bids adieu after transforming English football
‘The 2003–2004 “invincibles” won 20 points more than would typically be expected of a club with its wage bill, but over the last decade Arsenal’s performances have declined relative to its spending.’
Here are eleven amazing data journalism projects. Which one is your favourite?
‘Eleven projects have been shortlisted for the Data Journalism Awards 2018 “Public choice” award. They come from nine different countries and represent some of the best data-driven work from the past year’.
Making sense of satellite data, an open source workflow: accessing data
‘There’s more, and better, satellite data around than ever before … On top of that, data access and data processing can remain opaque, time-consuming, and expensive’.
How China is buying its way into Europe
‘Bloomberg has compiled the most comprehensive audit to date of China’s presence in Europe. It shows that China has bought or invested in assets amounting to at least $318 billion over the past 10 years’.
10 tips for collaborative data journalism projects by Mar Cabra
Mar Cabra, award-winning data journalist, former head of the Data & Research Unit at ICIJ, and Global Editors Network Board member, has kindly shared ten top tips for collaborative data journalism projects, to introduce the Data Journalism Den. These include the importance of building a network, advice on how to be a better manager, and why collaborative projects are like dinner parties.
Why is sport such a good topic for visualisations?
‘Sports by their nature are full of numbers and data: times, goals, scores, dates, rankings, statistics, averages, records, tables, and the like’.
France: Is the Left united in its opposition to Macron?
This story analyses the Left’s opposition to the government’s proposals, finding that the level and methods of opposition are not uniform across the different groups. (In French)
Dying Homeless: Counting the deaths on UK streets
‘While we hear tragic stories about people who have died while sleeping rough, no-one counts how many homeless people die on the streets of Britain each year’.
How Facebook influences the news Argentinians read
This article looks at the data on how Argentinian publishers are using Facebook to share their content, and how much Facebook users engage with that content. (In Spanish)
Welcome to the Den
The Data Journalism Den is a new global hub by the Global Editors Network, dedicated to serving the international data journalism community through the collaborative exchange of data, tools, and resources.
Useful R functions you might not know
‘Almost every R user knows about popular packages like dplyr and ggplot2. But with 10,000+ packages on CRAN and yet more on GitHub, it’s not always easy to unearth libraries with great R functions’.
With 250 babies born each minute, how many people can the Earth sustain?
‘UN data suggests that the world’s population will hit 11 billion by 2100, with the fastest rises being recorded in Africa and Asia’.
US: More than 208,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
‘The federal government does not track school shootings, so The Post pieced together its numbers from news articles, open-source databases, law enforcement reports and calls to schools and police departments’.
How data gets cleaned – an example with South African Schools data
‘Anyone interested in data analysis or the broader field of data science may have heard that about 80% of the work entails cleaning data’.
From Asia and beyond: experts discuss data journalism challenges
How easy (or difficult) is it to access data in China, Malaysia, Kenya, and other countries? Are there tested business models for data journalism in different parts of the world?
This designer is fighting back against bad data – with feminism
‘Most data is scraped from existing networks and websites or collected by surveilling people … The Feminist Data Set, on the other hand, aspires to a more equitable goal: collaborative, ethical data collection’.
US: Most still favor stricter gun laws, but it’s fading as a 2018 voting issue
‘While almost half of all registered voters (46 percent) say a candidate’s position on gun policy will be a major factor in deciding whom to vote for, that number is down 13 points from February’.
Facebook struggles to promote ‘meaningful interactions’ for local publishers, data shows
‘Data gathered about the 13 local publishers shows that the average number of interactions with Facebook posts since the local-friendly algorithm change is 27 percent lower than it was in the preceding two years (January…
Colombia: Peace in the Land – tracking the effects of the peace agreement
This new platform collects information about the persecution and murder of community leaders in Colombia, as well as about the reincorporation of former guerrillas after the final peace agreement with the FARC. (In Spanish)