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In October, 2010, during the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona , several investigative journalists explained how they managed to uncover corruption using network analysis. One of them, Dejan Milovac, wrote a story about a construction project on the Montenegrin coastline.
Influence Networks: The six degrees of investigative journalism
Every journalist needs to know about data. It is not just the preserve of the investigative journalist but can – and should – be used by reporters writing for local papers, magazines, the consumer and trade press and for online publications. Think about crime statistics, government spending, bin collections, hospital infections and missing kittens and tell me data journalism is not relevant to your title.
Blog Archive » 10 things every journalist should know about data
How to: get started in data journalism using Google Fusion Tables | How to succeed in journalism
An intensity map showing the population density for different ethnic groups in Texas What is it?
Many Eyes
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With more and more civic data becoming available and accessible, the challenge grows for policy makers and citizens to leverage that data for better decision-making.
Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source | Civic Commons
TimelineSetter: Easy Timelines From Spreadsheets, Now Open to All
Talking Points Memo used TimelineSetter to create a timeline featuring events in Wisconsin’s public-sector union struggle.
If you’re new on INSPIRED [the web design lifestyle mag], you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed & Newsletter for extra goodies. Thanks for visiting! In the tradition of Inspired Mag’s huge lists, here goes a new one – all the blogs with cool data visualization eye candy in the same place!
20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs
Trend spotting A series of websites use APIs and scrape pages to spot and analyze trends: Fan page analytics – Facebook fan page analytics Zoofs – Most talked about YouTube videos on twitter Fflick – Most tweeted movie titles