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While I was shamelessly picking the brain of in recent weeks, he advised me that if I don’t have more than three to five weeks to spend on “data” (sort of akin to what we used to call “computer-assisted reporting”), what I should focus on is teaching the students something about data visualization.
So I hunkered down and hauled all my books* off the shelf and did hours of Google searches and mined all my old bookmarks. Then, as usual, I figured I might as well share.
And if I’m lucky, some of my esteemed readers will share back, with some cool examples I haven’t seen yet!
- First, there are my Delicious.com links to . Right now there are only 22 bookmarks, because I’m kind of stingy with what I bookmark.
- , by Nathan Yau. This is an awesome short blog post by a guy who’s finishing a Ph.D. in data visualization at UCLA — and who did a three-month internship at The New York Times. There are all kinds of wild and crazy ways to visualize data, but Yau reminds us that in journalism, the story’s the thing. (His excellent blog is .)
- Will Sullivan recently posted . Something for everyone there.
- At The New York Times’s new , you can see the and download the raw text files. Over at IBM’s associated site, you can compare — this offers a good overview of types of charts and graphs that are commonly used to represent data. You can here too.
- Probably the best list ever: , from Meryl K. Evans.
- Mark Luckie recommends the blog, which certainly does serve up a lot of juicy goodness (but it’s too much for me to keep up with).
- Finally, how about a few free tools to play with? I’ve used (free Flash charts) with students in the past. is a free mapping tool. are another free Flash solution that, like FusionCharts, can be generated without the Flash application.
*Tufte’s was published while I was in grad school, and $50 seemed like an impossible sum. But after I had pored over his earlier book, purchase levitra many times in the public library, I went ahead and bought purchase levitra, price tag be damned. It’s one of those books that didn’t so much teach me how to do things; it taught me how to think.
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Thanks. I wish there more journalism classes devoted to data visualization. There are none at my school, so I have to teach myself everything.
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