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Comment by claudia costa on December 23, 2011 at 6:46pm

I am just reading the ddj handbook and find it sooo inspiring and well written. Thanks for the very interesting project, willing to learn more about it soon!

Comment by Liliana Bounegru on September 28, 2011 at 4:21pm

Data journalism seminar in Finland on 29 Sept. more details here: http://apoikola.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/day-of-the-data-journalism/

Comment by Liliana Bounegru on September 20, 2011 at 2:06pm

Nicolas Kayser-Bril's report from the first EJC/OKF data journalism workshop on EU spending online on DataDrivenJournalism.net!

Comment by Tommy Kaas on August 29, 2011 at 11:46am

Thanks for mentioning it Liliana. At the moment we only do the web scraping training in Danish. Would anyone be interested in a similar training course in English?

We use Python (free software) and you don't need to know anything about programming to participate.

Comment by Liliana Bounegru on August 29, 2011 at 11:39am

For Danish speakers here is a course for journalists on Python for scraping in Copenhagen: http://www.dje.dk/FMPro?-DB=kurser.dje&-Lay=14&-Format=kurs...

Comment by Nicola Hughes on July 8, 2011 at 2:24pm

I know this is very UK centric but I've set up a twitter account, @OJCstatements, which tweets out the statements by the Office for Judicial Complaints in the UK. It is a panel which rules on reprimands for judges regarding complaints as to their personal conduct. The OJC does not have the power to look into their previous judgements so I figured it's good data to put out into the public sphere. You can read the blog post here. For everyone in other parts of the world who might like to crowd source information on the web let me know and I can try and get it into ScraperWiki and then onto twitter. You can pick the hashtag and follow it for any leads that might arise.

Comment by José Casadei on June 17, 2011 at 2:05am

Hi, Nicola, thanks for your suggestions. Many Eyes is wonderful and easy to handle. Tableau seems to be better, but more complex comparing to Many Eyes (and i've already notice that that is a small and fast course on the site). I wil try to learn how to use Tableau! Thanks.

Comment by Nicola Hughes on June 16, 2011 at 7:46pm

@Jose, Many Eyes by IBM http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ and Tablau http://www.tableausoftware.com/public worth having a go at.

Comment by José Casadei on June 10, 2011 at 3:52am

Hi, Mirko! For a beginner (that is my situation), what types of courses (or what softwares or tools) you could suggest so that a journalist could learn how to produce effective and interesting data-visualizations? tks

Comment by Mirko Lorenz on June 9, 2011 at 6:28pm

@benno Hansen. Yes and no. Partially, because what we see here is the result of the Gapminder acquisition that happened already like two, three years ago.

Anybody interested in telling stories with data will the Google site above and quite a few other tools (Google Refine, Google Code Playground, Google Visualizations) and they are a great start. This is perfect and relatively easy for journalists to just get their hands dirty in data. Moving forward, other, even more powerful tools are the next step. Example is R Studio. 

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