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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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TRACKS

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.

Featured tracks

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

Latest tutorials

How to Map Photos Using OpenStreetMap and TileMill

Mikel Maron

Maps Maps

This guide takes four steps, demonstrating an overview of the whole flow and connection between four tools to build a photo map. This guide will hit the main points and highlight how the tools connect up with open data

Balloon Mapping: How to make your low-flying satellite

Willie Shubert

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Maps Maps

Balloon mapping provides individuals or groups with a low-cost means to create a running record of events in map form, one that is temporally accurate and easy to share.

Choosing the right kind of map for your story

Gustavo Faleiros

Design Design Maps Maps Visualization Visualization

Most available databases have some element of location to them. According to officers working at the open data portal of the US government, around 90% of their datasets contain geographical information, ranging from streets names to precise coordinates. In this tutorial, we will show the different kind of maps you can use to convey information […]

Basic Environmental Data: sources for mining information

Gustavo Faleiros

Data Data

Here we bring a collection of sources on different geodata. The way this tutorial is organized follows some of the bigger issues concerning the environmental coverage such as climate change, deforestation, water stress among many others Introduction Journalists and data visualizers cannot complain about the lack of sources on environmental issues. Because of years of […]

Deforestation diagram with Adobe Illustrator

Gabriel Gianordoli

Design Design Visualization Visualization

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a column chart using data in a table and how to customize it with some icons.

Using Ushahidi to Map Reports on Solid Waste

Erica Hagen

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Maps Maps

Ushahidi is a great open-source software for presenting many kinds of information on a map. You can set up an Ushahidi site using Crowdmap which will help you tell a story by bringing together a map with the information and reports you choose to include.

Cleaning Data with Refine

Michael Bauer

Data Data

Open Refine (previously Google Refine) is a data cleaning software that uses your web browser as an interface. This means it will look like it runs on the internet but all your data remains on your machine and you do not need internet connection to work with it.