Use of news apps on the rise in the newsroom
A tree map created for Business Daily by Daniel Cheseret.
Business Daily’s NSSF deduction calculator.
To call it a wind of http://www.ecsyork.co.uk/ change would probably be puffery, but a slow breeze is blowing through newsrooms in Kenya, increasing the interest ….Read More
Kenya leads decline in female genital mutilation, but victims are younger, mutilation more extreme
Learn About Tableau
A new report from UNICEF identifies Kenya among the top two countries, along with Central African Republic, in reducing the prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). While Kenya is a leader, the data also reveals that remaining victims ….Read More
Visualising data using a treemap
A tree map is a way of visualizing data using nested rectangles to represent hierarchical (tree-structured) data that is part of a whole. Each rectangle has an area proportional to a specific dimension of data. Different colors are often used ….Read More
Data graphics: Visualising stories
Media organizations across the world such as The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Guardian – regularly incorporate dynamic graphics into their journalism. Other than using static visuals to support stories in form of diagrams and charts, especially for ….Read More
Visualizing data using datavwrapper
DataWrapper is an online tool that helps anyone to create embeddable charts in minutes. The main advantages of using data wrapper are:
a) It is easy to use. It saves on time needed to create an embeddable chart.
b) User has full ….Read More
- Data Scraping
- Data Cleaning
- Data Analysis
- Data Viz
- Mapping
Simple data scraping using online tools
Scraping is a set of techniques required to ecsyork extract information from various formats like the web, PDFs, or scanned images into a file type that can be analyzed further, for example into table formats including comma-separated values (csv) or ….Read More
Data cleaning guide for journalists
Data journalism workshops can make the data http://www.ecsyork.co.uk/ journalism process seem much faster and more straight-forward than it really is. In reality, most data doesn’t arrive organized and error-free. Most data is messy. Before beginning any kind of analysis, the ….Read More
Data journalism fellows fault media coverage of national HIV report
There is no greater joy for a mentor than seeing his or her mentees blossom and develop confidence. I was pleasantly surprised when the five Internews data journalism fellows who only a few weeks ago were reluctant to analyze and ….Read More
Use of news apps on the rise in the newsroom
A tree map created for Business Daily by Daniel Cheseret.
Business Daily’s NSSF deduction calculator.
To call it a wind of http://www.ecsyork.co.uk/ change would probably be puffery, but a slow breeze is blowing through newsrooms in Kenya, increasing the interest ….Read More
Visualising data using a treemap
A tree map is a way of visualizing data using nested rectangles to represent hierarchical (tree-structured) data that is part of a whole. Each rectangle has an area proportional to a specific dimension of data. Different colors are often used ….Read More