How to make your first graph in Flourish
Want to start creating your own data visualisations? Flourish is a great (mostly) free tool for turning your datasets into great looking graphs and charts. It's pretty simple to get…
Quick Data Tip: Text list to sortable list
Sometimes I get data requests that sound like they should be easy but turn out to have not much in the way of usable data available. What were the hottest…
Data Journalism for Beginners: The who, what, where, when of data journalism
The key to getting to grips with data journalism is remembering it is just like all other types of journalism... What is the story? In data journalism, the story isn’t…
Data Journalism for Beginners: Six options for getting data out of a PDF and into a spreadsheet
PDFs are the never-ending bane of a data journalist's existence. Unfortunately, public bodies really love sending data as PDFs. https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1504142701213671430 As this is the case, you will often need to…
Data Journalism for Beginners: How to make a live updating council election map for candidates and results
Thursday (May 5) is local election day, and the classic way of displaying results is in a map, coloured in to show which party won which ward. These are relatively…
Data Journalism for Beginners: Why do it and how to get started
The second edition of Getting Started with Data Journalism has just launched and over the next few weeks I'm going to be bringing you some beginners' guides to data journalism…