web 2.0 tools for data journalists
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A selection of web tools and free software that you can use along every step in data journalism: finding, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing.TRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 toolboxfor data journalism
David HerzogMissouri School of Journalism and NICAR
Getting and sharing
Cleaning
Analyzing
Visualizing and mapping
Tools for every step
Don’t have to buy/license your own software
No software to install (for the most part)
Web service hosts data
Data accessible
Can share with the world
Benefits
Give up control of data◦ Read the terms of service◦ Legal constraints
Downtime for web applications
Services go out of business/lose traction◦ Swivel◦ Needlebase (June 1, 2012)
Poor documentation and user interfaces
Drawbacks
Get and share data
FOIA Machine
iFOIA
MuckRock
OpenMissouri
What do they know?
Alavateli
Socrata
GitHub
Junar
APIs – New York Times Congress
DocumentCloud
ScraperWiki
Cometdocs
Zamzar
Clean your data
Google Refine
Mr. Data Converter
Mr. People
Analyze your data
Google Spreadsheets
Overview
Visualize your data
Tableau Public
Infoactive
Chartbuilder
Infogram
Muckety
Google Media Tools
Google public data explorer
Google Fusion Tables
Map your data
Batch Geo
Texas A&M geocoding
Google MyPlaces
Google Docs map gadgets
Geocommons Maker
Advanced mapping tools
MapBox
CartoDB