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iSeeChange: A Social Platform for Recording Climate Change

In an effort to bring local context to climate reporting in Western Colorado, Julia Kumari Drapkin started iSeeChange–an online weather and climate journal–in 2012 to help identify how the listeners of her local community radio station were being impacted by changes in the environment. Four years later, iSeeChange is a hybrid citizen-science, social media platform used by people around the world to document and share their experience of environmental change. Using geotagged photos coupled with data on the weather and atmospheric conditions, iSeeChange is working to create a collective climate journal for present and future generations.
Using climate data to answer common questions

By comparing maximum temperatures today against predictions for 2050 and 2070, this new map helps answer a simple question with a complicated answer. As the climate changes, what is weather going feel like where I live?
Eyes on the forests: an Interview with Dr. Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland

Monitoring the state of the world’s forests is a monumental task with challenges in data collection, interpretation and display. Read our exclusive Interview with Dr Matt Hansen from University of Maryland about the power of remote sensing

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Our thematic tracks helps you to follow the best tutorials for your level of knowledge and are tailored to your interest. You can choose a tool, a topic, a skill or even a region to explore our resources.

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Environmental Sensors

For many journalists, especially those working in developing countries, coverage of sensitive environmental issues is severely constrained by a lack of accessible information and data
Data Collection

Sensors, scraping, surveys. Different techniques of data collection can be used for creating new and necessary databases
Data Wrangling

Data munging or data wrangling is loosely the process of manually converting or mapping data from one “raw” form into another format that allows for more convenient consumption of the data with the help of semi-automated tools. This may include further munging, data visualization, data aggregation, training a statistical model, as well as many other potential […]
JEO WordPress Theme

Jeo WordPress Theme acts as a geojournalism platform which allows news organizations, bloggers and NGOs to publish news stories as layers of information on digital maps. With Jeo, creating the interaction between data layers and contextual information is much more intuitive and interactive. The theme is ready for multilingual content and facilitates the publishing tasks. […]

Environmental Sensors

For many journalists, especially those working in developing countries, coverage of sensitive environmental issues is severely constrained by a lack of accessible information and data Continue reading

This track has 3 tutorials

Data Collection

Sensors, scraping, surveys. Different techniques of data collection can be used for creating new and necessary databases Continue reading

This track has 7 tutorials

Data Wrangling

Data munging or data wrangling is loosely the process of manually converting or mapping data from one “raw” form into another format that allows for more convenient consumption of the data with the help of semi-automated tools. This may include further munging, data visualization, data aggregation, training a statistical model, as well as many other potential […] Continue reading

This track has 3 tutorials

JEO WordPress Theme

Jeo WordPress Theme acts as a geojournalism platform which allows news organizations, bloggers and NGOs to publish news stories as layers of information on digital maps. With Jeo, creating the interaction between data layers and contextual information is much more intuitive and interactive. The theme is ready for multilingual content and facilitates the publishing tasks. […] Continue reading

This track has 5 tutorials

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How to make an animated forest fire map using Google My Maps and Carto

Gustavo Faleiros

Introduction Agricultural burning and forest fire are some of the planet’s most serious environmental problems and, unfortunately, a very common occurrence in many countries. In the forests of the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, fire can mean the advance of deforestation and most part of the fires are caused by humans in order […]

Create Media-rich Reports with Page Builder

Willie Shubert

Design Design

In-depth multimedia story telling has unique requirements; a narrative is structured around key facts supported by a mix of media elements intended to draw readers into the world the journalist is presenting. Combining the pieces into a cohesive story is one of the most exciting aspects of modern journalism and easing the process of creating […]

Share a Map from a JEO Site

Willie Shubert

Maps Maps

Not everyone has the time, money, or inclination to make interactive maps to support their stories. With this in mind, we’ve added a sharing feature to help journalists tell environmental stories with the maps they see within GeoJournalism sites. This tool creates an interface for formatting an iframe embed code; similar to a YouTube video […]

DustDuino Cookbook: A Brief Introduction

Willie Shubert

Data Data

Why Measure Dust?? Being able to see the dust blowing in the wind has broad implications. Today, one in eight people in the world dies from exposure to air pollution, which includes dust. This stunning fact, issued by the World Health Organization in March 2014, adds up to 7 million premature deaths per year. Air […]

DustDuino Cookbook: Recipes for Configuring Hardware

Willie Shubert

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Data Data

The DustDuino is a customization of Arduino designed to help makers create low-power, highly customizable sensor projects. By basing the system on Arduino, the DustDuino can use “out of the box” block of code to program the device to do a number of tasks. Those blocks of code are known as libraries. For more information and background on Arduino, […]

Role Play Your Way to Geo-Data Literacy

Willie Shubert

Data Data

Open Doors and Open Data By Learning Data Jargon One of the biggest issues journalists face when confronted with the abundance of new data sources is the vast array of jargon used by technical experts communicating the nuances of their field. The geospatial community is particularly adept at creating obscure terminology and exotic file types. Dropping a […]

Create immersive photo experiences with Google Photo Sphere

Vanessa Schneider

Design Design Mobile Mobile

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use Google Photo Sphere to capture 360-degree photo panoramas and embed them on your website Introduction You use photographs in your stories every day. They help bring a story to life in the way text can’t. With better, faster and cheaper mobile technology, journalists are experimenting with panoramas […]

Making Maps with JEO

Willie Shubert

Apps Apps Design Design Maps Maps

The basic component of a map is its layers—an individually designed dataset—that are combined together to tell a story. In JEO 1.o and beyond, maps are built utilizing a layers content type which allows editors to more easily reuse the data they mapped. These layers are organized and configured in combination with a base map that usually consists […]

Using JEO’s Content Type

Willie Shubert

Apps Apps Maps Maps

Understanding the unique WordPress Content Types created for JEO is a great way to understand how to organize and create content. These content types are defined by the type of information they contain and how they are used throughout a JEO site. There are two main categories of content types used in JEO; one group […]

Mixing shapefiles and comma-separated files in QGIS

Vitor George

Data Data Maps Maps Visualization Visualization

Introduction The Comma Separated File format, or just CSV, especifies a data type store in a tabular manner. Each line represent a record, and each field is delimited by a comma or another separator character. This format is accepted by popular tools like Excel, LibreOffice and Google Docs, and by most of programming languages. In […]

Tips for Using Color in Maps

Mapbox

Design Design Maps Maps

Color Theory and Mapping It’s important to realize how much your choice of color on a map can affect the story you are trying to tell with your data. As a brief introduction to some theories behind how to use colors on maps, here are three primary scheming designs for mapping data. Sequential Schemes Sequential […]

JEO: first steps

pixel

Apps Apps Maps Maps

Introduction Jeo is a WordPress theme that acts as an online platform for geojournalism and allows publication of news articles as layers of information on digital maps. With Jeo, creating interaction between the layers of data and contextual information is much more intuitive. The theme is developed to be a base of child themes and is […]

DIY air pollution monitoring with DustDuino: Arduino Uno Edition

Matthew Schroyer

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Data Data Mobile Mobile

Why Focus on Particulate Matter? The World Health Organization (WHO) took a major step by announcing that air pollution is carcinogenic to humans.WHO also announced they are considering particulate matter, a major component of indoor and outdoor air pollution, as carcinogenic to humans as well. International Agency for Research on Cancer announced today: outdoor #airpollution is leading […]

Easy steps for making charts and infographics using DataWrapper

Oluseun Onigbinde

Apps Apps Data Data Visualization Visualization

Leading media organizations are using Datawrapper, a simple and free tool, to improve their storytelling this way. Datawrapper is an interactive chart app that can be embedded into stories such as this one, which shows the Nigerian government’s proposed budget in 10 charts.

Field Papers: Make Digital maps with a Pen and Paper

Emir Hartato

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Data Data

What are Field Papers? As this set of tutorials demonstrates, there are many ways to collect data for use in mapping. For most circumstances a smartphone or a GPS unit will provide connectivity in even the remotest of places but each has its limits. This is where field papers can fill the gaps. Using simple […]

FrontlineSMS: How to Create a Mobile Newsroom for Disaster Reporting

Imelda Albaño

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Data Data Mobile Mobile

Communicating During Crisis The Philippines is an island nation of more than 100 million people living at the doorstep of climate change. Each year Filipinos face recurring natural disaster; enduring typhoons, severe drought, floods, and coastal erosion. As journalists living in a country where disaster is a fact of life, the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists (which […]

Visualizing data with Processing

Gabriel Gianordoli

Design Design Visualization Visualization

In this tutorial we will learn how to load data from an external file and we will create a graph with a population area x for the 10 most populous cities in the world.

Basic steps for creating animation

Mariana Santos

Design Design Visualization Visualization

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create an animation, it must be a short story that will serve as a teaser to invite the user to get to know the story we want to tell

OpenStreetMap editing using ID

Mikel Maron

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Maps Maps

You can easily edit the OpenStreetMap base map that you find at www.openstreetmap.org. And while doing it you will become part of the community of thousands of mappers worldwide who are creating the map together.

Downloading map information from OpenStreetMap

Erica Hagen

Data Data Maps Maps

You may wish to actually get at the data in OpenStreetMap and extract a spreadsheet of information – not just latitude and longitude but also every detail about each point of interest or feature.

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