Deadly Environment
Global Witness‘s new report Deadly Environment documents the past decade’s shocking rise in killings of people defending environmental and land rights. As competition for natural resources intensifies, more and more…
Mapping the Open Spending Data Community
We’re pleased to announce the official release of “Mapping the Open Spending Data Community” by Anders Pedersen and Lucy Chambers, an in-depth look at how citizens, journalists, and civil society…
#dataroundup: help round up data news on Twitter
Do you like to keep tabs on new developments in data journalism, the latest in infographics, or on new tools and courses for data wrangling? Do you like to hang…
Joined Up Data: first steps towards connecting transparency initiatives
Unprecedented amounts of information on the financial resources available to fight poverty are now being released through the efforts of multi-stakeholder transparency initiatives in sectors like aid, construction, contracting, and…
Geocoding in Google Docs: GeoJSON boundaries with Koordinates
In our geocoding recipe, you learned how to use Google Sheets formulas to automatically convert place names into coordinates in your spreadsheet data. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to…
budzeti.ba: Following the money in Bosnia and Herzegovina
We’re pleased to announce the launch of budzeti.ba, a new way to understand public spending in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). budzeti.ba is a joint project of Bosnian civil society advocates…
Data Journalist in a Day
Data in itself is not a force for good. The mere availability of data, far from fostering democracy, can deepen pre-existing power inequalities. The recent data-driven expropriations in Tamil Nadu and…
Know your Data Formats
The emancipatory potential of data lies dormant until data is given life in computational applications. Data visualizations, interactive applications, and even simple analyses of data all require that data be…
Finding Data
Evidence is power, as the School of Data’s motto says: the power to transform your material and social circumstances by understanding them. But so long as you don’t know how…
Seven deadly sins of data publication
The advantages to non-governmental organizations of digitizing data are obvious. Digital data cannot, after all, be destroyed in a fire, unlike the 31,800,000 pages of irreplaceable Maharashtra government records that…