READY FOR THE HACK

Installed a new Linux machine running Kali 2.0, ready for fun.....Do some reading in one of these.

Creepy

Mapping tweets used to be a complicated process. I used R, downloading the tweets, then geo coding and mapping. Now there is a nice python program to download, analyze and map the tweets. Here is the installer.
I had no trouble installing in Ubuntu. First install the libraries; then download the the program, unzip and run the python script. Installing twitter API was no problem. Then start download the tweets and put them on a map. Here is een example.

Does your secure passwords look like this

I know, passwords, a pain...You have to make them, remember them and they are complicated. Like me, you make a few passwords, safe, but for a professional hacker easy to crack, and you use them several times on different sites. After some time you end up in a situation like this. Your security has dropped to less then 20%; your passwords are chaos.As if you leave your front door wide open with a sign that the key to the vault in vol 1 of Das Kapital in library.

Data journalism made easy

Data services on the web lower the threshold to data journalism. No tinkering with statistics in Excel or maps in Google FT. Just upload your data push a button and there are the graphs and maps, either as an embed link, pdf of jpg.

I looked into one of those services: datawrapper . The prices are quite reasonable; for 12 Euro a month you are in business. However datawrapper is also open source. you can clone it from Github and install it.

Data journalism training at Maputo Mozambique Oct 2015

Training organized by Centro de Estudos Inter-Disciplinares de Comunicacao(CEC)

What's the deal with data journalism? (Guest Story)

Data journalism is not a new concept. It is however, still a daunting one for many. Operating high-tech systems, coding, and number crunching aren’t skills you’d find on a traditional journalist’s CV. But according to experts, if journalists want to stay relevant they should be looking seriously toward the digital world of data.

By Remy Raitt

“To find a job as a journalist is extremely difficult; lots of journalists have been laid off and are unemployed,” says former Utrecht University journalism, politics and new media lecturer and owner of D3-Media, Peter Verweij. “A strong position in the market comes with multi-media skills and/or data skills; being a fine writer is not enough.”

Published: http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/media/82921/whats-the-deal-with-data-journalism

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