For the data enthusiasts of the world, the Olympic Games in Rio unleash a trove of new data to play with. And for many budding data journalists looking for data to explore, the Olympics offer a g...
It’s an election year, which means the numbers are often the story. But these stories tend to focus on updating the same few numbers—in particular, how many delegates each candidate has won, ...
http://mediashift.org/2016/05/beyond-delegates-and-polls-using-data-to-tell-election-stories/
As big data becomes more prevalent, more journalists are sifting through data as part of their reporting. In lean newsrooms without graphics specialists on staff, reporters often have to visualiz...
http://mediashift.org/2016/02/checklist-does-your-data-visualization-say-what-you-think-it-says/
The push for open data has prompted the release of countless datasets. But the raw data alone can’t adequately serve the public. After all, it’s hard to imagine the average person investing t...
http://mediashift.org/2015/08/when-telling-data-driven-stories-let-readers-ask-questions-too/
What makes a story truly data-driven? For one, the numbers aren’t caged in a sidebar graph. Instead, the data helps drive the narrative. Data can help narrate as many types of stories as there ...
http://mediashift.org/2015/06/exploring-the-7-different-types-of-data-stories/
First came the web. Then came social media. Now journalists face a new challenge on the horizon: big data. It used to be that data journalism lived in a corner of the newsroom, in the care of inv...
http://mediashift.org/2015/04/its-time-for-every-journalist-to-learn-basic-data-skills/