Data basics for new or student journalists

First: Catch your data! Here are some places to fish for data

Extract your data from horrible PDFs and/or scraping

Tidy your data

Google/Open Refine Download here http://openrefine.org/download.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70J_H_zAWM

Use the Power Tools add-on in Google to make cleaning columns a breeze.

Visualize your data (work in progress)

Infographics

Maps

Charts

Random links

http://schoolofdata.org/online-resources/

https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/184641?hl=en&ref_topic=1652595

 

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