Data Visualization

Use of news apps on the rise in the newsroom

Business Daily Budget Treemap

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

More Data Visualization

Kenya leads decline in female genital mutilation, but victims are younger, mutilation more extreme

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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

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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

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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

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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

Tools
  • Data Scraping
  • Data Cleaning
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Viz
  • Mapping

Simple data scraping using online tools

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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

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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

Business Daily Budget Treemap

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

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


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