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Scraping for Journalists – ebook out now
My ebook is now live . You can buy it from Leanpub here . Leanpub allows you to publish in installments, so you get an alert every time new content is added and update your version.
La bibliothèque JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit propose des graphiques très peaufinés Vous avez des données à explorer ? Voici quelques outils qui pourront vous être utiles pour les transformer en informations et en graphiques attrayants. Pour faire parler des données, rien ne vaut une panoplie d'outils de visualisation graphique. Pour ceux dont le budget est limité, il existe de nombreux outils gratuitement accessibles pour visualiser les données et faire apparaître des modèles ou des tendances.
22 outils gratuits pour visualiser et analyser les données (2ème partie)
Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now.
10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
I’ve been focusing so much on blogging the bells and whistles stuff that Google Refine does that I’ve never actually written about its most simple function: cleaning data. So, here’s what it does and how to do it: Download and install Google Refine if you haven’t already done so. It’s free. Run it – it uses your default browser.
Cleaning data using Google Refine: a quick guide
Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
Photo by Dan Nguyen/ProPublica Our Dollars for Docs news application [1] lets readers search pharmaceutical company payments to doctors. We’ve written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data. Most of the techniques are within the ability of the moderately experienced programmer. The most difficult-to-scrape site [2] was actually a previous Adobe Flash incarnation [3] of Eli Lilly’s disclosure site. Lilly has since released their data in PDF format [4] .
Tools for multivariate data Datagraph , http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/index.html . DataGraph is a simple and powerful graphing application for Mac OS X. It is a great companion for Excel, Numbers or any of the big statistical packages. Commercial product with free demo available. GGobi , is visualization software for viewing high-dimensional data.
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[outils] Datawrapper: mettre en forme facilement des statistiques (courbes, histogrammes, camemberts)
Voici un nouvel outil simple d’utilisation pour mettre en forme des données statistiques sur le web. Il s’appelle Datawrapper et a été développé par Mirko Lorenz et Nicolas Kayser-Bril . Datawrapper a été développé pour ABZV, une organisation de formation des journalistes affiliée à BDVZ (Association des éditeurs de presse allemands). Le projet fait partie de leurs efforts pour bâtir un programme de formation complet pour les journalistes. Avec Datawrapper, l’idée est de rendre encore plus simple la mise en forme de données. Plus simple qu’avec ManyEyes ou Google Docs et très facilement « embeddable » (intégrable) sur un site web.
Google Fusion Tables (ci-dessus, une carte des Etats-Unis montrant le pourcentage de foyers ayant un accès Internet en 2007, par états, d'après le bureau américain du recensement) Vous avez des données à explorer ? Voici quelques outils qui pourront vous être utiles pour les transformer en informations et en graphiques attrayants. Pour faire parler des données, rien ne vaut une panoplie d'outils de visualisation graphique.
22 outils gratuits pour visualiser et analyser les données (1ère partie)
4 Simple Tools for Creating an Infographic Resume
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As a freelancer or job seeker, it is important to have a resume that stands out among the rest — one of the more visually pleasing options on the market today is the infographic resume. An infographic resume enables a job seeker to better visualize his or her career history, education and skills. Unfortunately, not everyone is a graphic designer, and whipping up a professional-looking infographic resume can be a difficult task for the technically unskilled job seeker. For those of us not talented in design, it can also be costly to hire an experienced designer to toil over a career-centric infographic. Luckily, a number of companies are picking up on this growing trend and building apps to enable the average job seeker to create a beautiful resume.
Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source | Civic Commons
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. It is often difficult to understand context and perform analysis. “Weave” , however, helps. A web-based data visualization tool, Weave enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time. We saw tremendous potential in the platform and have been helping open-source the software, advising on community engagement strategy and licensing. This week, we were excited to see the soft launch of the Weave 1.0 Beta, which went open-source on Wednesday, June 15.
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. Last week we announced [1] TimelineSetter, our new tool for creating beautiful interactive HTML timelines. Today, after a short private beta with some of our fellow news application developers, we’re opening the code to everyone. How to Install If you’ve got Ruby and Rubygems installed, you can get the package by running: sudo gem install timeline_setterAn intensity map showing the population density for different ethnic groups in Texas What is it? Google Fusion Tables allows users to create data visualisations such as maps, charts, graphs and timelines.
How to: get started in data journalism using Google Fusion Tables | How to succeed in journalism
It’s an often encountered situation, but one that can be a pain to address – merging data from two sources around a common column. Here’s a way of doing it in Google Refine… Here are a couple of example datasets to import into separate Google Refine projects if you want to play along, both courtesy of the Guardian data blog (pulled through the Google Spreadsheets to Yahoo pipes proxy mentioned here ): - University fees data ( CSV via pipes proxy )
Merging Datasets with Common Columns in Google Refine
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. If you think you need to be a hacker as well as a hack then you are wrong.