Hello, hacks and hackers! Are you interested in building a new skill set, meeting fellow news nerds or otherwise broadening your horizons? Check out our extensive list of Hacks/Hackers-type events at the bottom of this newsletter:
BBC’s data team wrote a Medium post about how and why they use R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts (Medium)
There are so many ways for readers to get their news online in 2019, and NiemanLab looks at which news aggregation sites are trending upward (or downward) this year (NiemanLab)
GIJN created yet another useful guide, on how to deal with property records around the globe (GIJN)