Category: The Outlier
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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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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.
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Report: World Athletics Championships 2023 in numbers
The 19th World Athletics Championships will be held in Budapest, Hungary from 19-27 August. Download our latest report for at look at the data behind the biennial event.
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Three things to know about Zimbabwe’s presidential election
Zimbabwe heads to the polls on 23 August to elect its president, members of parliament and local councillors. It’s the country’s 8th election since 1990
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How to make a Zimbabwean elections map
In the latest in our series on creating African election maps, we explain how to find data on Zimbabwean elections and how to map it.
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Malaria vaccine finally to be deployed in Africa after 35 years
An initial 18-million doses of the first malaria vaccine have been assigned to 12 of the countries where malaria exacts a high toll.