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The Guardian is one of the most respected newspaper when it comes to data journalism and data visualizations. Their website has a section dedicated to data where people can enjoy beautiful infographics made by the likes of David McCandless and other data visionaries.
We met with Simon at his Guardian’s desk to talk about the Data Blog and the impact of Wikileaks on journalism. Look out for his tips on good data visualizations!
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NEWS:REWIRED: by SARAH MARSHALL
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. Although data journalism combines journalism, research, statistics and programming, you may dabble but you don’t need to know much maths or code to get started. It can be as simple as copying and pasting data from an Excel spreadsheet. [Read more…]