Tag: how-to
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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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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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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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Loading non-essential data behind the scenes in Svelte
Streaming promises makes it simple to fetch data without having the page wait for non-essential data requests to complete before starting to render.
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