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Data StorytellingHow do you start, get data and sort it?
By Marianne Bouchart
@Maid_Marianne @GENinnovate
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Introduction
Journalists have to acquire new skills to keep up with the amount of information
now available online.
Being able to work with large datasets is one of them.
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First: How do I start?
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First: How do I start?
With a question!
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Ok, I have my questions, now where do I find data?
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DataPortals.org
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FindTheData.com
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EU Data Portal
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European Union Open Data Portal
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Data.gov.uk
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Data.gov
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Open Corporates
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Wikileaks website
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The World Bank
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The UN Data Portal
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The UNHCR Data Portal
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The World Health Organization Data
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Google Public Data Explorer
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GetTheData.org
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Quora
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Crowdsourcing using Google Forms
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WhatDoTheyKnow.com
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Find datasets directly on Google
Google search operators:
- filetype:CSV and filetype:XLS for Excel spreadsheets
- filetype:shp for geo data
- filetype:MDB, filetype:SQL, filetype:DB for database extracts
- if you’re so inclined, you can even look for filetype:pdf
- ‘inurl:downloads filetype:xls
- site:agency.gov
example:
site:adidas-group.com filetype:pdf
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Data Scraping with Google
One line magic formula in Google Spreadsheet to scrape data from HTML tables:
=importHTML(“”,”table”,N)
example:
=ImportHtml(“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_Kingdom_settlements_by_population”, ”table”, 1)
result:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fPu-3wNjVnyB_zF9x72u6X811exIQVxYzaUtdMxderk/edit#gid=0&vpid=A1
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Now Clean Your Data
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Open Refine
Using Open Refine by Ruben Verborgh, Max De Wilde can be found here
DataDrivenJournalism.net tutorial for Google Refine can be found here27
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Interrogate data with spreadsheets
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Berkeley’s tutorial on Spreadsheets
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CIJ’s Data Journalism handbook
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The Data Journalism Awards submission opens December 17th
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