Tools for visualising data in journalism

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Course introduction

Visualisations bring the “ooooh” factor to data-driven journalism, but their purpose is greater than simply making your story “pretty”. This module will teach you where and how you can source data for your journalism stories, how to clean and organise data, as well as how to visualise data using simple charts.

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Course introduction

An introduction to creating charts using Datawrapper

23:31

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An introduction to creating data charts using Flourish Studio

15:47

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Tegan Bedser

Tegan Bedser is a project manager for training and editorial projects at Media Hack Collective (MHC).

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An introduction to creating charts using Datawrapper

In this video you will learn: 1) The key considerations for creating charts using Datawrapper 2) What Datawrapper is and the chart options that are available 3) How to create a bar chart in Datawrapper

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Africa Data Hub seeks to lower the barriers that African journalists face to access and use data in their storytelling around health and development.

This work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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