Tag: Google Sheets
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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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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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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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Automating data downloads from a Google spreadsheet
Downloading data from a Google Sheets is usually as easy as clicking file->Download->CSV. But sometimes you need to automate the download. Here’s how.