No Internet? No Problem. Use SMS, Radio, Software, and Creativity
In Uganda, where many lack access to the Internet, people can engage with local radio stations to make informed choices and hold their leaders accountable. Using SMS and a new tool, TRAC FM, listeners...
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3 Difficult Document-Mining Problems that Overview Wants to Solve
The Overview project is an attempt to create a general-purpose document set exploration system for journalists. But that’s a pretty vague description. To focus the project, it’s important to have a set...
View ArticleHow to Create a Minimalist Map Design With OpenStreetMap
Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story...
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New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timelines Easy
A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from “tick tock” accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades,...
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Integrating Knight Lessons Into the Classroom
As much as the long-term success of the OpenRural project depends on technology and open records, it also depends on having enough reporters in rural communities who appreciate the journalistic power...
View ArticleHow TileMill Is Mapping Support of the International Justice System
[Amnesty International’s](http://www.amnestyusa.org/) latest campaign features a map front and center. The [Campaign for Global Justice](http://demandjusticenow.org/), launched this week on...
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Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestival, Hackathon in Helsinki
OKFestival, the world’s largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We’re pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year’s festival (two festival days and...
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How to Embed Open Spending Visualizations In Your Own Website
The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government...
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How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Documents for a Reporter
Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives...
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Lessons from the School of Data Journalism
Another busy year has passed since the first School of Data Journalism at the [International Journalism Festival in Perugia](http://www.journalismfestival.com). Last year, the [Open Knowledge...
View ArticleHow to Create a Minimalist Map Design With OpenStreetMap
Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story...
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New Knight Lab Tool Makes Great-Looking Timelines Easy
A timeline is one of the most useful and versatile storytelling forms, suitable for everything from “tick tock” accounts that unfold over a short period of time to events that unfold over decades,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Integrating Knight Lessons Into the Classroom
As much as the long-term success of the OpenRural project depends on technology and open records, it also depends on having enough reporters in rural communities who appreciate the journalistic power...
View ArticleHow TileMill Is Mapping Support of the International Justice System
[Amnesty International’s](http://www.amnestyusa.org/) latest campaign features a map front and center. The [Campaign for Global Justice](http://demandjusticenow.org/), launched this week on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestival, Hackathon in Helsinki
OKFestival, the world’s largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We’re pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year’s festival (two festival days and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Embed Open Spending Visualizations In Your Own Website
The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Documents for a Reporter
Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons from the School of Data Journalism
Another busy year has passed since the first School of Data Journalism at the [International Journalism Festival in Perugia](http://www.journalismfestival.com). Last year, the [Open Knowledge...
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Turning Data Into Powerful Visualizations of Detroit
What’s a “holy shit visualization?” It’s a way of looking at data that turns a statistic you might have flipped past in a book or skimmed by on a web page into something that you can’t forget. It’s a...
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Using Data Storytelling to Engage Audiences
An echocardiogram (ECG) — an ultrasound of the heart — cost nearly $11,600 at a hospital in Pennsylvania but only about $400 at a hospital in North Dakota. Medicare gave both hospitals about $400 to...
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