Learning
Learning Pushing Hot Buttons with Census.gov
Ronald Campbell on using census data to find facts in a world of speculation
Learning Building Smart Newsroom Tools
Melody Kramer on how a user-centered design process and attention to newsroom culture can make or break your internal tools.
Learning Distrust Your Data
- By Jacob Harris
Jacob Harris on six ways to make mistakes with data—and how to avoid them.
Learning What If the Data Visualization Is Actually People?
Sarah Slobin discovers that all the facts and numbers didn’t add up to the humans in her story.
Learning How to Use the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey like a Pro
Paul Overberg explains base tables and how to get the best data from them (hint: ask good questions!).
Learning Newsroom Analytics: A Primer
Jacqui Maher says it’s not just the numbers, it’s what they mean about the audience.
Learning You Got the Documents. Now What?
Jonathan Stray’s guide to turning documents into data you can run with.
Learning Developing Data Journalists in the Developing World
Eva Constantaras on training data journalists where data journalism isn’t a standard practice.
Learning Human-Assisted Reporting Gets the Story
Tyler Dukes on combining the power of data-sorting tools with old-fashioned digging.
Learning Making Remote Work Work
Christopher Groskopf’s tricks for going to the office without going to the office.
Learning The Evolution of News Tech Teams
Vox Media’s VP of technology breaks down the hard and frequently messy lessons his organization has learned about clearing the way for successful tech collaboration in newsrooms.
Learning How to Make a News App in Two Days
- By Al Shaw
- Ben Chartoff, Harlo Holmes, Brian Jacobs, Aurelia Moser, Gabriela Rodriguez, Al Shaw, Mike Tigas, Marcos Vanetta
- OpenNews, ProPublica
As part of the orientation week for the 2014 class of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellows, fellow nerd-cuber Mike Tigas and I led a hackathon at Mozilla’s headquarters in San Francisco…
Learning How and Why Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Rocks
Wes Lindamood explains the magic of working together from the start with a UX-driven process
Learning Choosing the Right Map Projection
Michael Corey’s guide to smashing the earth for fun and profit
Learning Making Good News Judgments
- By Shane Shifflett
- Shane Shifflett
- ProPublica, Quartz, The Bay Citizen, The Huffington Post, The New York Times
Shane Shifflett on the fine art of news judgment and why it’s as important for data journalists as ace coding skills.
Learning And Remember, this Is for Posterity
Jacob Harris on the hows and whys of designing interactives to survive the future.
Learning Building News Apps on a Shoestring
Alan Palazzolo on how the MinnPost team rocks it without a big budget
Learning Well Hello, Census
Joe Germuska on the iterative, human-centered process that’s made the new Census Reporter project especially awesome.
Learning Using Big Data to Ask Big Questions
Chase Davis lays down some data science upon us to change how you think about the questions you’re asking of your data
