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Book | Nadieh Bremer, Shirley Wu
A beautiful book about data vizualisations which explores the "behind-the-scenes" of the "Data-sketches" self-initiated series of visualizations that the authors created a few years ago. A deep look into their exploration ideas and processes, their design choices and all their coding developments – a great source of inspiration and learning.
Suggested by: Carmen Torrecillas | Civio
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Podcast | Alli Torban
A podcast for learning how to improve your data viz skills and to find more about the topic in general. Information design consultant Alli Torban shares the latest tools and methods that she’s discovered while on the job and interviews top designers.
Suggested by: Giada Pasquettaz | Openpolis
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Book | Tim Harford
Tim Harford is a columnist at the Financial Times and a well-known economic and statistical communicator. In this book he offers useful behavioural rules and amusing anecdotes by which readers – not necessarily math-geeks – are invited to understand the data behind the headlines and to avoid under-evaluated or overconfident conclusions. An insightful read for a time when statistics matter more than ever.
Suggested by: Javier de Vega | Civio
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Book | Jonathan Schwabish
This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he presents the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design.
Suggested by: Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
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Blog and newsletter | Datawrapper
The Datawrapper blog is a great resource when it comes to chart choices and design; their weekly charts section is especially inspiring!
Suggested by: Gianna Grün | Deutsche Welle
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Tutorials for a data-driven summer
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Online manual | Jonathan Soma
A platform that every data-journalist should visit. It takes you step-by-step through developing data science skills, learning how to build machine learning algorithms, and recreating iconic data-driven projects (like the Buzzfeeds spy planes investigation). Bonus: You get the annotated jupyter notebooks for each project.
Suggested by: Thanasis Troboukis | iMEdD
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Video tutorials | Danielle Navarro
If you wish to spend your summer learning the basics of functional programming in R, while having some fun creating compelling generative art you should definitely check Danielle Navarro's YouTube channel. The aRt programming playlists touches upon key concepts of R programming, while the functional programming playlist drives you through organising your code in cute and tidy functions. All this while randomly generating trees and colourful scrawls!
Suggested by: Federico Caruso | OBC Transeuropa
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Online tutorial | Peter Cook
A well-made tutorial on D3.js created by web developer Peter Cook. Among other things, you can learn the entry, exit and update functions or the scale and axis functions. The tutorial also delves into the use of the library.
Suggested by: Antonio Hernández | Civio
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Book | Cas Mudde
Everything you need to know about the rise of radical right movements in Europe and abroad. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence.
Suggested by: Gian-Paolo Accardo | Voxeurop
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Book | John McPhee
Rather than the control of Nature, this book illustrates the limits of control. Three different scenarios where environmental circumstances make people's life hard and unreasonable are described: the lands around the Mississippi River, the volcanic archipelagos of Iceland, the surroundings of Los Angeles endangered by mountain debris and mudflows. John McPhee explains in a narrative style what happens when human stubborness and environmental elements encounter, but don't expect a clear winner. Disclaimer: the book was released in 1989, so it misses recent events.
Suggested by: Federico Caruso | OBC Transeuropa
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Book | Stig Dagerman
Apparently the book has nothing to do with our work at EDJNet, it’s a reportage about Germany in 1946. But it’s extremely inspirational for the author’s ability to move past prejudices and categories, and always look for the human – which is a crucial reminder for data journalists. The stories also help to put the origins of the European integration project into context. And Dagerman is a master in using the language, combining clarity with depth.
Suggested by: Lorenzo Ferrari | OBC Transeuropa
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From the data journalism community
The GNI Startups Lab Europe
Created in partnership between the Google News Initiative, the German media innovation hub Media Lab Bayern, and the European Journalism Centre, the GNI Startups Lab Europe supports high-quality reporting for local communities, single-topic audiences and/or previously underserved communities. It is a six-month programme with workshops, coaching and high-profile networking opportunities. Participants will also get access to up to €25,000 in grants.
👉 Apply here
From n-ost
If you are a (data) journalist and want to perfect your skills in data-analysis, data sorting and data visualization, n-ost and Belarus in Focus are looking for Russian-speaking beginners or more experienced journalists with an interest in this field. The joint project will run from August to November, giving participants the chance to hone their data skills in teams, and be mentored along the way. Grants up to €5000 are available.
👉 More information here
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