Learn: training courses, tutorials, walkthroughs
Join our entry-level online course on data journalism: you’ll learn the basics on how to collect, clean, analyse, and communicate data. The course can be joined on a rolling basis and it is made of four self-paced modules coming with exercises, plus a few live learning cafés and webinars. Students are then mentored in order to develop a pitch for a data-driven story of their own, which may actually be produced and published in collaboration with one or more EDJNet members. The course is in English.
The course is run by Dataninja for EDJNet, more information here.
Tutorials and walkthroughs
This post describes a workflow and some points of reference for anyone tempted by the idea of using Google Earth for data visualisation, based on the R language.
The video points at some of the issues that characterise data grids on maps, and shows how gridded data can be generated via satellite imagery and machine learning techniques.
Centroids are sometimes quite far from the actual centre of a town or municipality. A presentation of another strategy to detect its coordinates, based on the European population grid.
You've got some coordinates and the European population grid: how to calculate the travel distances? A step-by-step presentation of a possible strategy based on OpenStreetMap.
An example of how time series can be animated with R packages, based on the data produced for our "Europe 1°C Warmer" investigation.
