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Knowing how to create interactive maps can be a very useful skill for a data journalist, and there is an easy, free online tool that allows you to do just that.
From election results to cycling accidents, CartoDB allows you to make many clean-looking visualisations with your data. Last year, we interviewed Andrew Hill, one of the data scientists from CartoDB, who said: “It is a tool for anyone who wants to create a map. We think everyone has the ability to create interesting visualizations and tell important stories with data.
“We created CartoDB to make it easier, faster, and less expensive.”
Journalists use this tool everyday to portray stories through maps. The Telegraph’s foreign desk, for example,  has used it to map the number of Nobel Prize winners in each country across the world.
The video below will guide you through how to make an interactive CartoDB map using 2015 election forecast data.
Map created during tutorial
Once Features Editor of the University of Nottingham’s Impact Magazine, Emily is now at City to add all things digital to her story-telling. Her aspiration is to become a reporter who can work on a beat and behind a screen.
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