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Nice to meet you!
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Conference preparations on going ;)
This week I worked on my talk for the Smart News Design Conference. The pressure is on, since the line up is awesome and the whole thing takes place in EYE Amsterdam (read: fancy venue). Such an honor to be part of all that - now my talk better be great. Luckily I had help from the best - thanks Mariette and Lars! :)
If I won't meet you at SND, we might run into each other at the annual VVOJ conference on investigative journalism in Antwerp. And if not, we'll meet again next Sunday! ;)
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Women in American prisons are punished more harshly and at significantly higher rates than male inmates - and mostly for minor infractions. Impressive data-driven investigation by The Chicago Reporter, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and NPR. “The policies and practices typically used to control populations in prisons are harmful to all human beings. But they are having a unique and devastating impact on women.”
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At Popular Science, April Reese listed the most important science policy issue for every American state. “Even if it never surfaces on the campaign trail, science is always on the ballot.” Would love a European version of this! (European, 'cause I think The Netherlands is too small to create different lists with different topics for each province.) Also, this list is basically a data journalism to do list for each state. After all, climate change is the biggest story of our times.
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When is it best to visit a National Park in the US with your tent? And with an RV? Find the answers in this series small multiples by Jordan Vincent which resemble a clock, with months instead of hours. These graphs are clever, good-looking, and helpful. Ha, that just sounds like the perfect boyfriend. 😂
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If someone you know still is not convinced of the importance of data and data literacy, this is the article to forward to them: Your Data Literacy Depends on Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured.
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Extreme poverty is less than 3% in most economies. But if you redefine poverty, everything shifts: nearly 1 in 2 in the world lives under $5.50 a day…
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I really like Datasette, an tool for exploring and publishing structures data by Simon Willison. He now has written about the main ideas behind Datasette, and shared a talk he gave about the tool. Wether or not you use the tool, the ideas that inspired this build might be interesting to you.
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Styling SQL and Python code in a Jupyter Notebook.
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The ICIJ started a interview series with their investigative reporters. Helena Bengtsson, data editor at the Sweden's national broadcaster, on data tools: “I will never learn a tool for the sake of it. I will only learn a tool when I need it for a project.”
- The Economist introduced its new look a while a go. It includes the introduction of a new weekly section called “Graphic detail”, featuring stories told through data visualisation. Read how to redesign a 175-year old newspaper. I really love this new section, heres a recent one.
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