Author: Alastair Otter
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DataDesk: a better way to collect data in African newsrooms
Data collection should not be the preserve of the ’data team‘ – everyone in a newsroom should be able to collect and manage data that helps their reporting.
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What’s the buzz about green hydrogen?
South Africa has ambitions to become a “world-leading exporter of green hydrogen”.
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How – and why – we switched from interactive to static data visualisations
Making the change to static charts with limited options has completely changed the way we think about the visualisations we do. The ’constraints‘ we’ve applied remove a lot of the decision-making usually found in design.
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How would you fare against world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge?
Eliud Kipchoge has broken the world marathon record again. But how fast is he really? And how would you compare?
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The Outlier’s Grocery Basket: July 2023
An update on our in-store survey of the same basket of basic goods at eight of South Africa’s major retailers, including, Checkers, Shoprite, Spar, Pick n Pay, Woolworths, Food Lover’s Market, Boxer Superstores and Makro.
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The Outlier’s Grocery Basket: A year in review
Here’s a look back at 12 months of collecting prices for basic goods at a selection of South Africa’s major retailers. Since we started this project in June 2022, a lot has changed.
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The Outlier’s Grocery Basket: May 2023
An update on our in-store survey of the same basket of basic goods at eight of South Africa’s major retailers, including, Checkers, Shoprite, Spar, Pick n Pay, Woolworths, Food Lover’s Market, Boxer Superstores and Makro.
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A big list of data journalism tools and resources
This list of tools and resources is based on our experience working in data communication. It includes tools that we have used, that we regularly use or know to be useful to anyone looking to perfect their data skills.
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Two years of Coronavirus in South Africa visualised
Over two years Media Hack collected detailed data on coronavirus in South Africa, and we decided to do something special with all the numbers we’ve collected daily over the past 110 weeks.
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