Doing Journalism with Data:

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rssNews & Analysis

25/2/2016

From data basic to data die hard: Check out the EJC’s new online training platform

The European Journalism Centre recently launched LEARNO.NET - a cutting-edge, online video training platform for digital journalists.
 

23/2/2016

Is data journalism for everyone?

A recent study of newsrooms in Finland, the UK and the USA, asked five prominent data journalists their thoughts on who should practice data journalism.
 

rssResources

Libpostal

A C library for multilingual street address parsing and normalization.
 

iWantHue

Generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors.
 

rssFeatured Projects

3/3/2016

The Trachoma Map: Making eye disease visible

SciDevNet and Sightsavers enlisted a public health data visualization to shed light on the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.
 

29/2/2016

La Nación’s Nisman coverage: Using machine learning to identify significant voicemails

How La Nación listened to 20,000 audio files related to the Alberto Nisman case.
 

rssUpcoming Events

11/1/2016 - 7/3/2016

McGraw Hill Financial Data Journalism (Online)

With the support of McGraw Hill Financial, ICFJ will offer two online courses on using data to cover entrepreneurship and financial news.
 

14/3/2016 - 15/3/2016

Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium - MLDAS 2016 (Doha, Qatar)

Bringing together experts in the fields of machine learning, data mining, and related areas to present recent advances and to discuss open research questions.
 

About the project

DataDrivenJournalism.net is a hub for news and resources from the community of journalists, editors, designers and developers who use data to support journalism. The website is part of an European Journalism Centre initiative dedicated to accelerating the diffusion and improving the quality of data journalism around the world. We also run the online course Doing Journalism with Data as well as the School of Data Journalism, and are behind the acclaimed Data Journalism Handbook.

This intiative receives partial funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

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