Category: The Outlier
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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.
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Working with Open Street Map vector data in QGIS
When we teach data journalism most people are eager to make a map but they’re usually unsure of where to get data for a map. And while there are many good sources for map data, if you’re looking for something, like a particular town or neighbourhood, that’s not always so easy. One solution is to…
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Netball World Cup: Get up to speed with SA’s most popular women’s sport
South Africa is hosting the first Netball World Cup to be played on African soil. Here’s our guide to understanding the game
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Murder in the municipalities: 21 councillors killed in 22 months
In South Africa, the murder rate among municipal ward councillors is six times higher than the national rate of 45 murders per 100,000 people
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Why we told the story of South Africa’s deadliest storm
Telling the story of Durban’s 2022 floods was not to document disaster, but rather an investigation into what we can learn from that night