Data Journalism

The Guardian on data journalism.

Ara newspaper’s section on data journalism.

NY Times newspaper’s section on data journalism.

La Nación newspaper’s section on data journalism.

The Economist newspaper’s section on data journalism.

Los Angeles Times newspaper’s section on data journalism.

The Washington Post newspaper’s section on data journalism.

The Texas Tribune newspaper’s section on data journalism.

The authors provide a panorama of the current situation at national and international level in this field with a wide-ranging selection of examples. Concepts such as precision journalism, journalistic documentation, infographics, open data and big data are explained.

This publication, with a Creative Commons licence, aims to become a useful tool for data journalism professionals in Latin American countries. It can be consulted online, downloaded as an e-book or acquired in paper format.

It includes examples and tutorials, although they are not very exhaustive. This project began in a 48-hour workshop by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation. It is the joint initiative of many data journalism professionals. This is a constant work-in-progress.

Book that explores the ways to visuallly analize and communicate data.

_{Kirk, A. [Andy]. (2012). Data visualization: a successful design process. Packt Publishing Limited. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bibliouocsp-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1108349}

It has the collaboration of journalists and entrepreneurs who accept the new information challenges brought about by technology. The quality of the data and the capacity to create new information are key points in this initiative's mission.

Ran Geva and Guy Mor are the ideologues of this project used by entrepreneurs, scientists and researchers. They extract data from media groups, blogs, forums, e-commerce products, information from the dark web and radio and television programmes.

Managed by the CKAN Association, they offer the user a catalogue of resources, with a large amount of metadata that makes it easy to use.

It is hosted in GitHub, a platform for GitHub developers, where you can develop code, manage projects and build software with other contributors.

This was a project by the Universities of Berkeley and Standford, which they considered complete. It is now a commercial project: Trifacta.

Since 2012, Google has not supported this project, which is managed by volunteers. With the book Using OpenRefine, this tool can be used by following the examples supplied. This same site provides a visual introductory guide.

Based on a spreadsheet, Statwing makes it possible to shuffle data, create charts and pivot tables and write formulas. A simple language enables anyone to use it.

It enables the transformation of data by just copying and pasting from a spreadsheet and using the application templates.

It is one of the many options offered by the company Qlik, which works on providing solutions based on data analysis and management to improve its client's decision-making processes.

Produced by journalists and for journalists, this application does not require knowledge of any programming language or design skills. The same website features articles that guide the user on how it works.

Offers the user a list of predefined templates to which you can add content and modify the structure in a flexible manner. It also has a catalog of icons and images categorized by subject area that allow you to personalize infographics and export to PNG and JPG. Note that with the free version, you get a small Piktochart watermark on the bottom of the PNG / JPG downloads.

Data visualization software to prepare and publish engaging visual work made from data.

Open source software for Windows that has some free tools for creating data visualizations. Once you have downloaded the software, upload a spreadsheet or CSV file and create a variety of interactive data visualizations types, including heat maps showing density of an activity by location), Venn diagrams to show associations, bar charts, line graphs and others.

Data visualization works gallery made with Tableau.

Learning and support resources for Tableau users.

Practical guide to learn to convert data to engaging visualizations with Tableau.

_{Jones, B. [Ben]. (2014). Communicating data with Tableau. O'reilly Media, Inc. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/communicating-data-with/9781449372019/?sso_link=yes&sso_link_from=Catalunya}

The market for BI and for analytics platforms changed the leadership going from a purely technological perspective to a more updated analytical view of business. This Gartner report presents the main platforms, analyzes and assesses their market positioning.

It has the collaboration of journalists and entrepreneurs who accept the new information challenges brought about by technology. The quality of the data and the capacity to create new information are key points in this initiative's mission.

Founded in San Francisco in 2009, this organization was born from the union of hats (journalists) and hackers (technologists ). This group tries to bring together people to collaborate on different projects involving research and data dissemination. It has delegations on four continents and thousands of members.

Based at MIT Media Lab, it focuses on the creation of new technologies to disseminate information, stressing the term civic media, which they define as any form of information that tightens bonds in the community or creates civic commitments among its members.

This presentation took place at the 1st International Congress on Data Journalism - New narratives for the specialized journalist (26/02/2016).

It delivers the latest on news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and citizen journalists.

Its main objective is for a well-informed community, investing in small towns where the two founding brothers have managed newspapers.

It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose members work to collect data and create solutions to properly inform its fellow citizens.

This dossier is one of the proposals of the CCCBLAB, a CCCB department focusing on research and innovation in the cultural field. It proposes new contents and lines of work, mainly on the changes brought about by technologies in the collaborative sphere.

Started in 2000, in the proceedings of this annual congress you can find information about the speakers, talks, news and publications related with each year's congress.

Organized by CCCB, the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication Studies and Medialab-Prado, it hosts a wide-ranging programme of activities.

Medialab-Prado is considered a citizen laboratory of production and research, whose goals are based on collaboration through digital networks. Its lines of work are cultural, encompassing tools, projects, data visualization, and sound and audiovisual creation.

In the CCCBLAB Data Journalism Dossier. Mar Cabra is an investigative journalist specialized in data journalism.

Llei 19/2013, de 9 de desembre, de transparència, accés a la informació pública i bon govern.

Law 27/2006, of July 18, which regulates the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters (incorporates directives 2003/4 / EC and 2005/35 /EC).

REGULATION (EC) No 1049/2001 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

Hosted by the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) and Access Info Europe, two non-government organizations, this project is a tool used by legislators, lawyers and journalists.

It works very simply: the website manages our question by e-mail and it is automatically forwarded to the correct department. The EU sends its response to the website and the user receives a notification.