1. Web 2.0 toolbox for data journalism
Thanks to David Herzog
Missouri School of Journalism and NICAR

2. Tools for every step Getting and sharing Cleaning Analyzing
Visualizing and mapping

3. Benefits Don’t have to buy/license your own software
No software to install (for the most part)
Web service hosts data
Data accessible
Can share with the world

4. Drawbacks Give up control of data Downtime for web applications
Read the terms of service
Legal constraints
Data might be public
Downtime for web applications
Services go out of business/lose traction
Poor documentation and clunky user interfaces

5. Get and share data

6. MuckRock.com
Boston…MuckRock is an open governent tool powered by state and federal Freedom of Information laws, a generous grant from the Sunlight Foundatio

7. WhatDoTheyKnow.com
UK public recprds requests

8. Data.Medicare.gov
federal government website managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

10. APIs – NYT Developer Network
Application programming interface

11. DocumentCloud.org
catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. Documents are contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists

12. ScraperWiki.com

13. Cometdocs.com
Fileconverter free

14. Zamzar.com
File converter

15. Clean your data

16. OpenRefine.org/
Clean data…download and install on your computer…mac or pc

17. vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/
Tool from stanford...team is now working on a commercial product called Trifacta

18. Analyze your data

19. Google Spreadsheets

20. Statwing.com
Stats black box…but costs $50/month for 500Mb datasets

21. AnalyzeThe.Us
Information about key individuals, organizations, and activities exists in many places, and conducting meaningful analysis first requires the ability to integrate data seamlessly and completely.
Palantir: started with CIA funding

22. Visualize your data

23. Many Eyes (google it)

24. Tableau Public (tableausoftware.com/public)
Free download…widely used by news organizations…create web presentations
FREE FOR IRE MEMBERS!!

25. Datawrapper.de

26. Infogr.am
Free online charts

27. Dipity.com
Creates timelines

28. TimeFlow github.com/FlowingMedia/TimeFlow/downloads
Download the app…Sarah Cohen of Duke…reporting tool

29. Timeline.js

30. Muckety.com
Welcome to Muckety, where you can use interactive maps to explore relationships of the rich and powerful.

31. Google.com/publicdata
Based on Mind the Gap

32. Gapminder.org

33. Support.Google.com/FusionTables

34. Wordle.net

35. Map your data

36. BatchGeo.com

37. Maps.Google.com

38. Geocommons.com

39. Questions?