Data visualisation and data journalism resources

Last updated: November 20, 2022

Blogs

Data is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine: Five datasets arrive in your email every week. There is a spreadsheet of data sets featured previously in the newsletter as well!
Data Vis Dispatch by Datawrapper
quantum of sollazzo (formerly called in other news) by Giuseppe Sollazzo
Warning: Graphic Content by Gavin Freeguard
Fair Warning by Soph Warnes
Notes from the Equator by Kontinentalist
The Process by Nathan Yau (Paid)
Data & Eggs by Dataface
The Moksha Roundup by Moksha Data Studio

Data Visualisation Society Slack
D3.js Slack
D3.js Google Group
Data viz jobs Google Group
Lonely Coders Club Slack: Are you a lonely coder in a newsroom? Join this group of some very awesome people!
Datameet Google Group: Home of the Indian Open Data community.
Elevate by Duncan, Alli, Will and Gabby is a paid community with tutorials, weekly challenges and access to stellar people to learn from.

Steven Bernard’s QGIS Youtube Tutorials: If you want to start off with mapping, QGIS is an extremely powerful free tool.
Curren Kelleher’s Youtube Tutorials: Excellent for people who want to start learning D3.js, or advance their D3.js.

Quartz Guide to bad data
Tips on data bulletproofing by Propublica
Data to Viz: Which viz suits your data?
Financial times Visual Vocabulary
Awesome visualization research - List of papers about visualisations
How to learn D3.js by Amelia Wattenberger
India Data Sources
Tipsheets and presentations from NICAR: An annual news nerd conference in the United States. (2021 and 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014)
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas - MOOCs and journalism trainings for data and interactive journalism.
Computer-Assisted Reporting and Data Journalism Syllabuses compiled by Dan Nguyen.
Principles for making things for the web by Noah Veltman

Axis Maps Contours: Get contour lines/polygons for different regions in the world.
Landsat Acquisition Calendar: Get to know which area Landsat (a NASA satellite used for satellite imagery) captured on a particular day.
Mapshaper: Convert between different geo data formats. Quickly browse your data or filter out objects.
Reprojector
How big - “A tool that quickly lets you draw a circle or square with a given area on a map. You can download the shape as a GeoJSON.”
Gimme Geodata - “Get quick access to OpenStreetMap boundaries and any other polygons such as administrative areas, parks, houses and many more.”
Berkeley’s Basic GIS Data list: Links to places where you can find basic GIS data including boundary shapefiles, elevation, gridded population and historical boundaries.

Datawrapper - My go-to tool for charts.
Flourish - Animated Charts! Bar chart races and line chart races!
Raw Graphs - if you are more of a static chart person, this might be the ideal option. Several charts to choose from, can upload files or link up csvs.

SVG Crowbar: Lovely tool from NYT to get any svg on a webpage to an svg in your computer for you to edit (in something like Illustrator) and publish.
ai2html: You have an svg/ai file. Now let’s turn it to html.

Mr. Data Converter: Convert your Excel data into one of several web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML.
OpenRefine: Open source tool to clean data
Tabula: Open source tool to free data from pdfs
Two tone: Free data sonification tool by Google News Initiative.