Our next Conversations with Data podcast will take place on Tuesday 6 July at 3 pm CEST / 9 am ET with Eva Constantaras from Internews and Anastasia Valeeva from the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. During our live Q&A, they'll discuss the power of building a hypothesis for data journalism and what can be done to address inequity with data. The conversation will be our second live event on our Discord Server. Share your questions with us live and be part of our Conversations w...| datajournalism.com
Cybersecurity and digital privacy are major concerns for today’s journalists. As more journalists work remotely, the amount of time we spend online continues to grow. With online threats becoming more prevalent and sophisticated, we must understand how our data might be compromised and what to do to protect it. This is especially the case for investigative journalists who face more significant digital security threats given the sensitive information they handle. But the digital footprints w...| datajournalism.com
Orientations to Wikipedia often begin with its enormity. And it is enormous. The encyclopedia will be 20 years old in January 2021 and has more than 53 million articles in 314 languages. Six million are in English. According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is the 8th most-visited web domain in the United States, and the 13th globally; it’s the only non-profit in the top-100 domains. In November 2020, more than 1.7 billion unique devices from around the world accessed Wikipedia articles. Average mon...| datajournalism.com
Lauren Gardner is the Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and holds a joint appointment in...| Department of Civil & Systems Engineering
This article can give you a hand with creating structured approaches to news consumption and research. It includes practical tips about tools & resources.| DataJournalism.com
Sherry Ricchiardi provides a journalist's guide to war reporting using data through the lens of the Syrian war.| DataJournalism.com
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Wikidata can be a useful resource for journalists digging for data on a deadline. Here is a guide to using the community-edited database as a data source.| DataJournalism.com