Tag: Data Journalism
The Importance of context, data, and expert sources in discussing Latino communities
And the proliferation of disinformation in these spaces.
Empowering local newsrooms with comprehensive community dashboards
Han Vu is a 2023 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with the American Press Institute in Washington, DC. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work through Innovation in Focus. Data holds great power for newsrooms to better understand their communities, but accessing and understanding it can be daunting. To aid local journalists … Continued
Making Census data accessible for reporters with varying data literacy
Your guide to variables, visualizations and more.
Going beyond local data to contextualize a community issue
Tools and advice for finding and analyzing data in rural Lake County, California.
How a newly founded newsroom is building community connections
AfroLA is making data-informed decisions to meet audiences where they are.
Where public history meets journalism
We can and should grant people agency in our stories.
Honoring the vulnerability of people’s stories when designing projects
A conversation with Ilia Blinderman, Senior Journalist-Engineer at The Pudding.
Providing context for data in journalism
One dataset we used for this work was the Missouri Healthnet Applications. Here are takeaways to assist you in making data points easier to understand for readers
Utilizing no-code tools for snappy data visualizations
How Infogram, Chartblocks and ChartExpo stack up.
The people behind the data points
Weihua Li of the Marshall Project balances the severity and humanity of incarceration through data.