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The Post’s examination of race and segregation in the US is a definite highlight among recent data journalism projects. We spoke to the reporter behind the story to find out more about its creation.
Reflections from the 2018 GEN Summit - The challenges and ethics of AI integration into journalism
‘Ahead of General Elections 2018, Kohistan is once again in the limelight and this time for the lowest number of voters in proportion of its overall population’.
‘The rising property market in cities such as London fuels disaffection and leads to ‘commuting’ criminals’.
‘Download and play with key datasets from Google Trends, curated by the News Lab at Google team’.
‘We’ve open-sourced our code for loading Illinois campaign finance data. The process used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes’.
Reuters has an exceptionally strong track record of creating innovative data journalism projects and effective visualisations. We spoke to their data editor to find out how they do it.
‘The era of pink & blue isn’t over. Surprisingly many big projects in the last four years used these colors to convey information about men and women’.
‘Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives on November 7, 1916. Since then, 289 different women have represented their constituents in the House, bringing the House to 19% women’.
‘We developed the Open Database of Deceased Workers in Turkey. It was a public project that verified data from multiple sources, presented it in different formats, and was open to access and use by everyone’.
‘The trade war has begun, and it arrives with potentially far-reaching consequences for international relations and the global economy. But what about your household? What is it going to cost you?’
A series of data boot camps is helping journalists in Asia connect with data scientists, medical doctors, and policy makers. What could others learn from this successful initiative?
‘The dispute now includes about 10,000 products traded around the world, and could grow to target almost 90 percent of what China sent to the United States last year’.
‘We’ve been tracking, and forecasting, each team’s chances as the tournament has unfolded, and we thought it would be fun to look back at how the final between France and Croatia got made’.
‘All 12 boys and their soccer coach have been safely rescued from a labyrinthine cave complex Tuesday night’.
‘Why more budget allocations on education and health doesn’t translate into better schools and clinics’.
OpenVis Conf brought together people from around the world to learn about data visualisation, design, and analysis. Here are the highlights of the event.
‘From Data to Viz leads you to the most appropriate graph for your data. It links to the code to build it and lists common caveats you should avoid’.
‘An analysis of final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Population Census 2017 reveals that only 20 percent population of Kohistan is registered as voters’.
‘We’ve put together these pointers to help you create simpler charts that effectively get across the meaning of your data’.
‘The package is primarily designed to help statistical researchers and data journalists covering public policy fields. It focusses on the simple data wrangling tasks that these researchers do most often’.
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