Category: How To
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The tools we use to make our charts and dashboards
We often get asked what tools power the hundreds of charts and dashboards we produce at The Outlier. From data crunching in Google Sheets to designing with Flourish and Figma, we’ve fine-tuned a process for creating both static and interactive visuals. Our special data deep dives are built with Svelte and D3.js to help bring…
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Unlock the power of colour
To help you supercharge your stories, we’ve put together a quick guide to colour that distills our insights into how to use colour effectively in data visualisation, complete with real examples, practical tips as well as some of our favourite tools. 🔗 Get your free copy of The Outlier’s guide to colour
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How to make custom maps — even if you don’t know how to code
When programs such as Flourish or Datawrapper don’t have the map format you need, you can make your own custom map. Here’s how.
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Building projects with Leaflet and SvelteKit
If you’re planning on building projects in SvelteKit, it needs a slightly different set-up to Leaflet.js. Here’s what you need to do to get it to work.
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Hands-on: 5 reasons to switch to OpenRefine to clean data
It has a pretty steep learning curve but it’s definitely worth the effort to learn OpenRefine if you need to clean large amounts of very messy data.
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How we create custom charts using Flourish and Figma
At The Outlier we publish a lot of static graphics and we like to apply our own styles. Here’s how we do it using Flourish and Figma.
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Simple guide to scraping data from PDFs
Papers, PDFs and poorly scanned documents are the way most data journalism projects begin. But instead of typing up a new spreadsheet, here’s how to use Adobe Acrobat DC to do all the hard work for you.
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10 spreadsheet formulas we use to superpower our data analysis
Both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are powerful spreadsheet programmes for storing and sorting through mounds of data. Here are our favourite formulas for making sense of data.