Between spotty reporting, suppression, and privacy issues, data stories about LGBTQ+ communities can be hard to report. But the push for discriminatory laws also means we need these stories more than ever. These tips from jasmine mithani 🌵⚡🦂 & K Petrin can help: source.opennews.org/articles/7-tip…

"Knowing how to do something well and knowing how to teach it well are two overlapping, yet very distinct, skill sets." The Data Journalism Teachers' Club is a new community for educators to get better at tools, techniques, and teaching methods together. source.opennews.org/articles/data-…

Newsrooms often devote more time to fact-checking during election season—for good reason! Here's a quick guide to 5 fact-checking tools that can help you make the most of that time: source.opennews.org/articles/fact-…

New on Source! K Petrin & jasmine mithani 🌵⚡🦂 share two pieces about doing good journalism with data about LGBTQ+ people, covering conceptual and ethical issues they've encountered as well as technical tips that can help you report with tricky data. source.opennews.org/articles/how-t…

This roundup shares five tools to make your fact-checking life easier this election season: 🔍 Google’s Fact Check Explorer 🖼️ Google’s ‘About This Image’ feature 🗃️ MediaVault 📢 ClaimReview 📊 Fact-Check Insights More from @ericalryan here👇 source.opennews.org/articles/fact-…

At SRCCON last year, K Petrin & jasmine mithani 🌵⚡🦂 led a session on reporting with tricky, limited data about LGBTQ+ communities. They pulled together an amazing amount of guidance—conceptual, ethical, and technical—to share this two-part resource: source.opennews.org/articles/how-t…

"Data on LGBTQ+ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to relying on. At the end of the day, though, doing good LGBTQ+ data journalism is just doing good data journalism." source.opennews.org/articles/how-t…

Between spotty reporting, suppression, and privacy issues, data stories about LGBTQ+ communities can be hard to report. But the push for discriminatory laws also means we need these stories more than ever. These tips from jasmine mithani 🌵⚡🦂 & K Petrin can help: source.opennews.org/articles/7-tip…

🧾💎🔢 What's the best tool journalists can use to extract tabular data from documents? Sanjin Ibrahimovic of DocumentCloud tested eight projects—from free to paid, desktop to cloud-based. Here are the results: source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

Using real-world documents — from neat & tidy to messy & handwritten — DocumentCloud tested eight tools for extracting tabular data: - Tabula - pdfplumber - PaddleOCR - Excel - Pinpoint - Amazon Textract - Azure Document Intelligence - GPT-4 Vision source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

Following up on their VERY popular comparison of OCR tools for journalism, DocumentCloud reviewed eight of the top tools for extracting tabular data from documents. Figure out what can help you on your next project here: source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

In part 2 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras writes about what a web development course added to her toolkit: a shared language and more confidence in communicating across teams. source.opennews.org/articles/produ…

🧾💎 What's the best tool journalists can use right now to extract tabular data from documents? Sanjin Ibrahimovic of DocumentCloud tested eight projects—from free to paid, desktop to cloud-based. Here are the results: source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

After a 4-week course in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, @madraekaras came away with a firmer command of frameworks for web development, and more confidence in communicating with dev teams. Here's what the class brought to her work as a news product manager: source.opennews.org/articles/produ…

In part 1 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras prioritized areas for growth in her work, and identified a key next step: building up web dev skills with an online boot camp. How much did the course help her as a news product manager? Here's part 2! source.opennews.org/articles/produ…

Using real-world documents — from neat & tidy to messy & handwritten — DocumentCloud tested eight tools for extracting tabular data: - Tabula - pdfplumber - PaddleOCR - Excel - Pinpoint - Amazon Textract - Azure Document Intelligence - GPT-4 Vision source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

In part 2 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras writes about what a web development course added to her toolkit: a shared language and more confidence in communicating across teams. source.opennews.org/articles/produ…

Following up on their VERY popular comparison of OCR tools for journalism, DocumentCloud reviewed eight of the top tools for extracting tabular data from documents. Figure out what can help you on your next project here: source.opennews.org/articles/our-s…

After a 4-week course in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, @madraekaras came away with a firmer command of frameworks for web development, and more confidence in communicating with dev teams. Here's what the class brought to her work as a news product manager: source.opennews.org/articles/produ…

In part 1 of her project manager diary, @madraekaras prioritized areas for growth in her work, and identified a key next step: building up web dev skills with an online boot camp. How much did the course help her as a news product manager? Here's part 2! source.opennews.org/articles/produ…