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Module 4 Using data in investigations
Denise Malan, Investigative Reporters & Editors
Lecture 2: Data tools & resources
Trend toward open source
Expensive tool
Spreadsheet: MS Excel
Database manager: MySQL Server
GIS platform: ESRI ArcGIS
Statistical software: SPSS, SAS
Data viz: Illustrator
Development environment
Free alternatives
Google Sheets
SQLite
QGIS
R, PSPP
Tableau, Datawrapper, etc etc etc
Text editor
Spreadsheets: The gateway to data journalism
SQL: Large, relational databases
Database managers themselves are free, but you need a server and a good free interface.
SQLite: DB Browser, SQLite Studio
MySQL and others: Navicat ($), MySQl Workbench, SQLYog (Community is free version), Toad for MySQL
Mapping: Spatial analysis
QGIS
ArcGIS Online ($)
Carto
Mapbox
Datawrapper
Data viz: Showing the story
Tableau (TableauPublic for free version)
Flourish.studio
TimelineJS, StoryMapJS
Infogram
Datawrapper
Programming: Repetitive tasks, large data, vizThe big scripting languages: Python, R, JavaScript (D3)
Dealing with pdfs
Cometdocs
Tabula
Smallpdf ($)
Xpdf
Adobe PDF Pack Online ($)
DocumentCloud
Collaborate: Working together
Resources to learn data journalismIRE & NICAR: Hands-on bootcamps & annual conferences
Knight Center course: Data journalism and visualization with free tools
Global Investigative Journalism Network: Data journalism resources
Google News Lab online training
