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More machine learning for journalists

There's an emerging body of online resources designed specifically to help journalists master AI and algorithms, and its growing at a fair old pace. The latest entry comes from Google News Initiative and the Pols thinktank at the London School of Economics, and apparently is so sophisticated it c...

9 days ago

Spinning the colour wheel

Struggling to pick the right colours for your latest viz? The language of colours can be confusing for folks without a design background, but the colour wheel is more than a rainbow-like delight for changing RGB values. It's a tool for selecting the right tones to convey your meaning, and help re...

4 weeks ago

Book learnin', Don't Miss

Don’t be fooled: The journalist’s guide to foiling fake news

Craig Silverman has wrangled some of the industry's top fact-checkers and myth-busters to produce the latest version of the Verification Handbook For Disinformation and Media Manipulation, a veritable trove of methodologies, practices and examples to help the journalist separate fact from crap.

Jason Norwood-Young

a month ago

Get your data journalism course for free here

There's plenty of resources online for upstart cubs with their eyes on becoming a data-journo, but you're not going to find an introduction that's much better than this. It's the Knight Center's six week course featuring Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers, Debra Anderson, Duncan Clark, Jan Diehm, Minhaz...

a month ago

Machine learning for the newsroom made easy

There's plenty of online resources for journalists who want to learn how to wrangle data for their stories, but courses can feel a little irrelevant when the examples involve iris petals or decades-old fuel consumption data. Investigate.ai is different. Not only is it delightfully "non-threatenin...

2 months ago

Book learnin', Nerds

Learn D3 today (well, probably not all of it today)

If you've suddenly got time on your hands, you're looking to learn something new, and if you're honest with yourself you're not actually going to start yoga, then check out Mike "The Legend" Bostock's intro to the graphing library that rules the interwebs, D3.js, at https://observablehq.com/@d3/l...

Jason Norwood-Young

2 months ago

Book learnin', My Corona

John Hopkins teaches epidemiology for all

As we are repeatedly at pans to point out, we're not epidemiologists here at Naked Data, but we could be. With time to fill in self- or enforced-isolation over the next three weeks, it makes sense to sign up for this free course offered by coronadata-meisters at John Hopkins University. It's call...

2 months ago

Florida Man gets data scienceing

If you want to live somewhere warm AND study data science, Miami University has something just for you: the legit-sounding Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing. It's got the usual ML and AI stuff, but encouragingly, there's also a data ethics programme, lots of talk about reaching out t...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 months ago

Book learnin', Nerds

So you wanna be a data visualiser? Learn it from a book.

So many books, so little time. And money. And attention span. But if you've got some or all of those spare, data vizzer JP Hwang has an awesome reading list for you, a veritable shortcut from data dunce to visualising virtuoso. Some might already be familiar to you, like Claus Wilke's Fundamental...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 months ago

Book learnin', Don't Miss

Ye olde Chaucer

I have a terrible confession to make: I've never read Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales looms over me like a black crow, cawing cruelly, but flying away whenever I approach. (I assume this is the kind of stuff I'll find in the Tales, but having never read them, I really don't know.) And here our tale...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 months ago

Book learnin', Nerds

Their favourite tools

I'm loving the Global Investigative Journalist Network's current series, My Favourite Tools, in which (as you may have ascertained already) investigative journos share their best apps, gadgets, and software. Lionel Faull's ode to his Livescribe Echo Recorder Pen makes me want to go and buy one im...

Jason Norwood-Young

3 months ago

Going back to basics

If you thought reading a text only newsletter about data-driven storytelling and other interesting stuff was retro, you haven't seen Market Cafe Mag. It's a print-only compendium of dataviz examples and insights around visualisations on issue-themed subjects which -- as if the name wasn't deliber...

6 months ago