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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

PDF to Word Converter — 100% Free Top Ten Tools for Data Journalism ← Data journalism is ever-evolving and so are the tools of the trade. Aside from Microsoft Excel (which I’ve blogged about here and here), these are the tools which are, in my opinion, the most useful for data journalism at the moment. Google Fusion Tables The gateway drug for most data journalists, Google Fusion Tables is a user-friendly mapping tool which allows users to upload their data to the application, select the columns of data they would like to map and simply create the map. Treemap TreeMap provides an easy, yet extremely powerful means of creating beautiful treemaps for analytical and presentation purpose. BatchGeo BacthGeo is free and user-friendly data-mapping software, which allows users to copy and paste data from their spreadsheets in order to map it. Tiki-Toki Slightly more obscure than some other data journalism tools, Tiki-Toki is a good example of the timeline visualisation software out there. Like this: Like Loading...

Macrodatos, Big Data y los nuevos perfiles profesionales en la empresa Suscribete a nuestro curso GRATIS Si esta es tu primera visita siguenos en el hilo RSS o FACEBOOK o en TWITTER . Gracias por visitarnos! La disciplina de los macrodatos o big data está dando mucho que hablar desde finales del 2012 y principios de 2013. Aunque estas disciplinas no están muy extendidas todavía, su uso por parte de grandes corporaciones está empezando a levantar mucha expectación dentro del mundo empresarial. Muchos se preguntan cuál es la utilidad de los macrodatos o el bigdata para las empresas. Las estimaciones para el desarrollo de la industria y aplicaciones relacionadas con macrodatos hablan de 23.800 millones de dólares para 2016 y crecimientos del 41% anual en los próximos años. Y es que, se está demostrando que el uso de datos está convirtiéndose en una de las mayores fuentes de ventajas competitivas para: Comprender el entorno competitivo que les rodea, Entender mejor a sus clientes Y ofrecer nuevos productos y servicios. Tuitea esta cita Y tu ¿que opinas?

New Guardian, Scoopshot efforts bring elements of automation to photo verification User-generated content is rife with risk and opportunity. The opportunity for it to deliver remarkable images is made clear on an almost-daily basis, be it in the midst of a crisis like the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Sandy, or simply someone snapping a notable shot at a local event. The risk is that images are easily faked, scraped and manipulated. News organizations and others seeking to source images and information from the crowd therefore have no choice but to push forward with new methods of verification — and to make existing methods quicker and more accurate. The Guardian and Scoopshot both recently unveiled new initiatives to bring an element of automation to verification. Authenticity scoring Scoopshot is a crowdsourced photography service that enables news organizations to source (and assign) photographs from their community and from users around the world. But Stewart also noted some of this approach’s limitations. Economic incentives for automation

Center for Digital Storytelling - Blog - Data Journalism + Personal Storytelling = Brave New World? – by Laura Hadden In the world of storytelling, words and numbers have a complicated relationship. When I was an Americorps*VISTA volunteer at the Center for Digital Storytelling, I was privileged enough to bear witness to hundreds of stories. Sitting in that circle and listening to folks from all walks of life share of themselves and their experiences never got old and, when my time at CDS came to an end, I carried so many of those stories with me into the world. I knew that the experience had changed me fundamentally, but couldn’t quite figure out how and what that change actually meant. Although I still feel like my feet are firmly planted in the personal storytelling world, these questions have lead me to take a closer look at what can be learned by data-driven journalism. For example, this visualization of rape convictions in the UK shows that over the 78,000 estimated rapes that happen every year in the UK, only 1,153 of them turn into convictions.

spreadsheetjournalism | Excel, data, and the story lines that lurk within Amphibia Help Me Investigate | A network helping people investigate questions in the public interest My next ebook: the Data Journalism Heist In the next couple of months I will begin publishing my next ebook: Data Journalism Heist . Data Journalism Heist is designed to be a relatively short introduction to data journalism skills , demonstrating basic techniques for finding data, spotting possible stories and turning them around to a deadline. Based on a workshop, the emphasis is on building confidence through speed and brevity , rather than headline-grabbing spectacular investigations or difficult datasets (I’m hoping to write a separate ebook on the latter at some point). If you’re interested in finding out about the book, please sign up on the book’s Leanpub page . Meanwhile, I’m looking for translators for Scraping for Journalists – get in touch if you’re interested.

¡Descarga la Guía! Ya puedes descargar la Guía del programa Tras la Pista de los Dineros Públicos , una hoja de ruta interactiva para que los periodistas colombianos puedan investigar, a profundidad, el manejo de los recursos de las regalías y las temporadas de lluvias. El documento también se refiere al papel que juega el periodismo en las sociedades democráticas; las leyes, decretos, normas y fuentes que son cruciales para seguirle la pista a los contratos públicos y los consejos prácticos para que desde el periodismo de investigación exploremos los temas que nos brindan los dineros estatales. La publicación surgió a manera de resultado del proyecto que convocó a cientos de periodistas regionales a través de su curso virtual y de sus talleres, y fue presentada oficialmente en el marco de nuestro VI Encuentro de Periodismo de Investigación por Catalina Perdomo y Daniel Suárez Pérez. La guía, además, destaca la importancia del papel que juega el periodismo de investigación en las sociedades democráticas.

International Symposium on Online Journalism Below are slide presentations that were made during the symposium event. Presentations (given in PDF, PPT or PPTX Format Below) are listed in order of panel session. Some presentations are not included based on panelist's request. Friday Morning Keynote: Building a Media Company for the Digital Age: Lessons from the FieldJim Bankoff, chairman and CEO at Vox Media (The Verge, SBNation, Polygon, Eater, etc) >> Download PDF Bots, drones, sensors, wearables, etc.: The new tools for journalists Larry Birnbaum, professor of computer science and journalism at Northwestern University; and chief scientific advisor at Narrative Science >> Download PPT John Keefe, senior editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC >> Download PDF New Research Pathways in Digital News Content: From Preservation to Curation (Research session) Emerging Journalistic Practices in the Digital Age (Research session)

Insumisión en macondo Periodismo de Base de Datos: Herramientas Nivel Básico Búsqueda de datosBúsqueda avanzada de Google Plataformas para Gestión de Set de Datos Junar Sócrata Google spreadsheets Document Cloud(También extrae textos desde imágenes) Extracción y Conversión de datos NitroPDF Zamzar Free-OCR Adobe Profesional 8 Procesamiento de datosExcel Access Google Refine Data VisualizationTutorials KDMC produces a wealth of digital media tutorials to support our training sessions and classes. While the focus of some tutorials is on technology and journalism, most are general enough to be of use to anyone. Spreadsheets Updated March 11, 2012 in Data Visualization This tutorial covers the basics of creating and doing calculations with a spreadsheet. It is based on using Google Docs spreadsheets, with notes on some differences with Excel spreadsheets. Protovis Part 4: External data and animated labels Updated Sept. 7, 2011 in Data Visualization Learn to how to load data into your Protovis charts from an external file and learn new tricks to animate bars and labels simultaneously. QGIS basics for Journalists Updated March 16, 2012 in Maps, Data Visualization QGIS is a free, open source GIS application that works on most major operating systems. Data Visualization: Basics Updated Nov. 3, 2010 in Data Visualization Interactive graphics give your content context and impact. Protovis Templates

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