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History Of U.S. Presidential Election: From 2012 Back To 1789 [Approaching Data Journalism - Episode #4]

Barack Obama hugs Michelle Obama

Yesterday night was the 57th U.S. Presidential Election and Barack Obama won against his mormon opponent Mitt Romney. Since this early morning everybody in the world talks about Obama’s re-election, making this photo the most-liked Facebook photo of all time as well as this (following) tweet the most retweeted tweet of all time, among other [...]

The most outstanding list of recommended tools for data visualization [Approaching Data Journalism - Episode#2]

Datavisualization tools

I know, if you’re into data visualization, you already know your tools but maybe you don’t know all of them (I’m quite sure about this). As I’m approaching data journalism and digging into data visualization tools, I stumbled upon this huge and compelling list made up by Interactive Things, a design and technology studio based [...]

Top 30 resources list to find data on the Web [Approaching Data Journalism - Episode #1]

Photo by admiraljay / Flickr

As I wrote, I’m getting closer to Data Ecosystem because it’s real fun (read last post: Approaching Data Journalism – Episode #0). When you look for numbers about one topic of interest, you start to accurately compile spreadsheets, sorting data accordingly to your first and foremost “feeling” and you dig into these data. You start [...]

Data are awesome – [Approaching Data Journalism - Episode #0]

Since January 2012 I’m getting every day more interested in data journalism. What is data journalism? Paul Bradshaw, from Birmingham City University, in the “Data Journalism Handbook” tells: Both ‘data’ and ‘journalism’ are troublesome terms. Some people think of ‘data’ as any collection of numbers, most likely gathered on a spreadsheet. 20 years ago, that [...]