THE WORLD AT LARGE

Wanted to start 2018 with a larger view at the connected world. Here is my new Samsung UHD monitor 28 inch. Here are the specs: http://www.samsung.com/nl/monitors/uhd-ue590/LU28E590DSEN/

Tableau on Linux

Running Tableau Public on Linux Mint in a Virtual Box:

Data journalism is South America by Herlaynne Segura

And here is the translation of my part:

RIP WINDOWS 10

This enough...after a year struggling with Windows10 fast boot, secure boot, registered keys, UEFI files and endless updating, I cleaned the whole hard drive. Back to Linux again: installed Mint 17.3. All the data journalism stuff: Excel(office online) or Calc(Open Office, Outwit-Hub or table capture Chrome, Refine, Tabula, Qgis, R and R studio; all working. Just in case: running Win10 in a virtual box.
One small problem: I love Tableau public for viz. Not available for Linux (yet)....starting with plot.ly. Better integration with R.

Word frequencies of headlines of the Source

This is work in progress!
Last month headlines in The Source.
Here are the top  word frequencies (wf>5) as bar graph and word cloud.

JUPYTER NOTEBOOK

Making visualizations like maps or charts is the end product for many data journalism research. When you want to explain the structure of the research and the different steps of the data journalism research, problems emerge. Or when you want to make the research more transparent by sharing the outcome of the different steps of the research. For example I am using R for analysis and plotly for visualizations; for showing the different steps I am have a text describing the whole process in markdown. During the lecture or a training you have to switch from one application to another. Jupyter notebooks solves this problem, because by using different kernels in the notebook you can show text in markdown, calculations in R, and visualizations in plotly. You can also share the notebook with the data, so anybody can after downloading follow the research process step by step. 

Tanzania data journalism training

TANZANIA

Tanzania Media Foundation
Twitter: @newTMF

Training Tanzania's next Data Journalism Leaders

TMF and EJC continue to deepen their commitment to data journalism in Tanzania by implementing their first workshop targeting the country's need for data journalism trainers. Kicking off 17 July in Dar es Salaam and led by former Utrecht professor, Peter Verweij, the programme features sessions led by participants themselves and dives deep into the local context of controversial statistics and cybercrime laws recently passed by the government.

During the workshop, the newly published Swahili language version of EJC's Data Journalism Handbook is being released and distributed to journalists across Tanzania and Kenya both digitally and hardcopy.