Tag: data journalism
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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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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
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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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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.