18  Data Journalism Tools and Stories

This page provides a comprehensive collection of resources focused on data journalism tools and resources. On this page, you will find a list of personal websites and blogs that do some great work in data journalism. Additionally, there is a list of good examples of data stories to emulate.

18.1 Data Journalism

18.1.1 Blogs and Websites

A listing of data journalism practitioners and companies to follow:

  1. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  2. Quant Editing
  3. Amber Thomas
  4. Data Journalism and Viz Accounts
  5. Flowing Data Website

18.1.2 Books

  1. Telling Stories with Data: With Applications in R and Python
  2. Narrative and Numbers

18.1.3 Guides

  1. Sharon Machlis: NICAR data journalism
  2. A Beginner’s Guide to Data Journalism: Let’s Build a Story From Scratch
  3. Quick Guide to Data Journalism
  4. Data journalism: a guide for editors
  5. Developing Data Journalists in the Developing World
  6. The Inverted Pyramid of Data Journalism
  7. GitHub Data Journalism

18.1.4 Dealing with math and stats in journalism

  1. Math in Journalism
  2. Number soup
  3. Percent change versus percentage-point change
  4. When journalists should care about p-values
  5. 5 common research designs: A quick primer for journalists
  6. 10 simple data errors that can ruin an investigation
  7. What’s standard deviation? 4 things journalists need to know
  8. 5 things journalists need to know about statistical significance
  9. Spotting Shady Statistics

18.1.5 Writing

  1. Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism
  2. Dueling Data
  3. How data journalists create beautiful feature stories
  4. A data journalist’s guide to building a hypothesis
  5. Flowing Data Story Formats
  6. Telling Stories With Data: A Simple Math Guide
  7. Data Biographies: Getting to Know Your Data
  8. Putting data back into context
  9. How to Tell Science Stories with Maps
  10. How to Ace a 300-Word Story
  11. How to Research and Write Skillfully on Something You Know Nothing About
  12. 9 Tips for Investigative Journalists to Improve Their Writing
  13. Lay summaries needed to enhance science communication
  14. The Art of the Essay
  15. Organizing your research: A scientist’s tips for journalists
  16. Where to begin? My guide to pitching a data story
  17. How to edit your own writing

18.1.6 Tools

  1. Data Journalism Tools
  2. Data Journalism and Visualization with Free Tools
  3. Storytelling Tools
  4. StoryBench: The future of machine learning in journalism
  5. How ProPublica Analyzed Pardon Data

18.1.7 Tutorials

  1. Mapping search data from Google Trends in R
  2. Using R to Analyze Fargo Crime Data

18.1.8 Organizations

  1. Global Investigative Journalism Network Data Journalism
  2. ProPublica Data Institute 2018
  3. ProPublica Data Institute 2019
  4. Google News Initiative
  5. Knight Foundation: Misinformation
  6. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
  7. Fake News Public Data Lab
  8. AP DataKit
  9. Data Journalism Grants
  10. A community conference for data makers everywhere
  11. Lapis
  12. Kontinentalist

18.2 Data Stories (Longform and In-depth articles)

18.2.1 Story aggregators

  1. Global Investigative Journalism Network Top 10
  2. Media Hack Collective
  3. 12 brilliant data journalism projects of 2021
  4. Data Journalism: Some Favorite Examples
  5. Examples of Award-winning Data Journalism
  6. 12 Best Data Journalism Examples:Storytelling with data
  7. 10 data journalism projects that made an impact in 2020: our ultimate COVID-19 roundup

18.2.2 Top Data Story Examples

  1. 10 years. 180 school shootings. 356 victims.
  2. Blind Drunk
  3. Uber Game
  4. What Africa will look like in 100 years
  5. ONE NATION, TRACKED
  6. Life in the camps
  7. Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing
  8. The Facebook Scandal
  9. NSA Files Decoded
  10. The Deadliest Jobs in America
  11. Congressional Tweets
  12. The Kim Foxx Effect
  13. What makes a titletown?
  14. High street crisis deepens
  15. The use of political ads on facebook in the run-up to the European Parliament elections 2019 in Austria
  16. What the Democratic Presidential Candidates Care About, in 44,000 Tweets
  17. How many high school stars make it in the NBA?
  18. Bussed out
  19. Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
  20. Money and Power: The Wealth of America’s Elected Officials
  21. How online donations are fueling the election
  22. The Making of Angela Merkel
  23. The Millions Who Left
  24. Why are things expensive?
  25. Getting a good job
  26. Build a Voter
  27. The real cost of seafood
  28. How does rice get to your plate?
  29. Jakarta’s roadside food sellers
  30. Exploring the lungs of Asia
  31. The Protein Problem