From the website:
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism’s leading advocates and best practitioners – including from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, Deutsche Welle, the Guardian, the Financial Times, Helsingin Sanomat, La Nacion, the New York Times, ProPublica, the Washington Post, the Texas Tribune, Verdens Gang, Wales Online, Zeit Online and many others.
Superlatives fail to describe the Data Journalism Handbook.
Pick a section, any section, to be delighted, informed, and amazed.
Front Matter
- For the Great Unnamed
- Contributor List
- What This Book Is (And What It Isn’t)
- The Handbook At A Glance
Introduction
- What Is Data Journalism?
- Why Journalists Should Use Data
- Why Is Data Journalism Important?
- Some Favorite Examples
- Data Journalism in Perspective
In The Newsroom
- The ABC’s Data Journalism Play
- Data Journalism at the BBC
- How the News Apps Team at Chicago Tribune Works
- Behind the Scenes at the Guardian Datablog
- Data Journalism at the Zeit Online
- How to Hire a Hacker
- Harnessing External Expertise Through Hackthons
- Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration
- Our Stories Come As Code
- Kaas & Mulvad: Semi-finished Content for Stakeholder Groups
- Business Models for Data Journalism
Case studies
- The Opportunity Gap
- A 9 Month Investigation into European Structural Funds
- The Eurozone Meltdown
- Covering the Public Purse with OpenSpending.org
- Finnish Parliamentary Elections and Campaign Funding
- Electoral Hack in Realtime
- Data in the News: Wikileaks
- Mapa76 Hackathon
- The Guardian Datablog’s Coverage of the UK Riots
- Illinois School Report Cards
- Hospital Billing
- Care Home Crisis
- The Tell-All Telephone
- Which Car Model? MOT Failure Rates
- Bus Subsidies in Argentina
- Citizen Data Reporters
- The Big Board for Election Results
- Crowdsourcing the Price of Water
Getting Data
- A Five Minute Field Guide
- Your Right to Data
- Wobbing Works. Use it!
- Getting Data from the Web
- The Web as a Data Source
- Crowdsourcing Data at the Guardian Datablog
- How the Datablog Used Crowdsourcing to Cover Olympic Ticketing
- Using and Sharing Data: the Black Letter, Fine Print, and Reality
Understanding data
- Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps
- Tips for Working with Numbers in the News
- Basic Steps in Working with Data
- The £32 Loaf of Bread
- Start With the Data, Finish With a Story
- Data Stories
- Data Journalists Discuss Their Tools of Choice
- Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data
Delivering Data
- Presenting Data to the Public
- How to Build a News App
- News Apps at ProPublica
- Visualization as the Workhorse of Data Journalism
- Using visualizations to Tell Stories
- Designing With Data
- Different Charts Tell Different Tales
- Data visualization DIY: Our Top Tools
- How We Serve Data at Verdens Gang
- Public Data Goes Social
- Engaging People Around Your Data