How to get started with GitHub for Dummies (Journalists)
Warning: This how-to is for Mac users, since it provides information on installing Mac OS X
Year: 2015
Cath Levett: The Guardian Head of Graphics
Visualising your story is a key aspect of a lot of data journalism. While there
How to write a data story with bad data
The General Election is the most important media event of the year. Its a chance
Sociotope brings your online identity to life
While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool:
Interview: Hera Hussain on the need for open data
Hera Hussain is Communities and Partnerships Manager at OpenCorporates, the world’s largest open companies database.
Billy Ehrenberg on data journalism’s future and the skills you need
Billy Ehrenberg, ex-Interhacktive and data journalist, has spent the last year working on new data-based
I asked YouGov’s Stephan Shakespeare about Miliband’s non-dom promise and whether this is the most data-driven election yet
When you get the chance to speak to the CEO of YouGov on the day
Interview: You Gov’s Joe Twyman on polling 2015’s unpredictable election
When I met You Gov’s head of political and social research for Europe, the Middle
Data Journalism workshops by Interhacktives 2015: learn to clean and visualise election data
Love data? Ever wondered what a data journalist actually does? Just want free booze? The Interhacktives are
I didn’t get on to the Telegraph grad scheme, but you might
This article was published in 2015 and refers to that year’s application for the Telegraph
LIVE BLOG: the #Interhacktives are at Build the News 3, hacking our way through the weekend together
Day 2 And the winners are…. And that’s a wrap! The presentations have been made,
VIDEO: How to make an interactive map using CartoDB
CartoDB logo Knowing how to create interactive maps can be a very useful skill for
How to use statistical functions in Excel
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. At least that’s how the saying goes and how the
Video: How to use regex to scrape HTML pages
Ever wanted to scrape something with OutWit Hub but the data you want is tied up
Interview: Ben Kreimer on drone journalism
When most people think of drones, they’ll probably think of the flying machines that hail
Events for aspiring hacks this month
Postgraduate and job application deadlines are drawing near. Maybe you’ve already got an interview or
Our favourite #AdviceForYoungJournalists
If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably noticed the trending hashtag #AdviceForYoungJournalists, which was sparked off by a
A social media style guide for local newspapers
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don’t just
“Why I should be the Guardian’s new editor”
Since Alan Rusbridger announced on Twitter that he will be stepping down as The Guardian’s
6 tools for measuring social media success
Lies, damned lies and statistics – everyone knows this famously pithy quote often attributed to