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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 […]

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  • Tools 1
    • Color Brewer
  • Skills 1
    • Information Design
 

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 […]

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    easy

  • Tools 1
    • DataWrapper
  • Skills 3
    • Data Wrangling
    • Information Design
    • Reporting
 

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. No related posts.

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    medium

  • Tools 1
    • Processing (Programming Language)
  • Skills 1
    • Information Design
 

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. No related posts.

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    hard

  • Tools 1
    • Adobe Illustrator
  • Skills 2
    • Information Design
    • Reporting
 

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 No related posts.

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    hard

  • Tools 4
    • CartoCSS
    • OpenStreetMap
    • Overpass
    • TileMill
  • Skills 2
    • Information Design
    • Programming
 

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 No related posts.

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    easy

  • Tools 3
    • Cartography
    • Fusion Tables
    • TileMill
  • Skills 1
    • Information Design
 

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 […]

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    medium

  • Tools 1
    • Adobe Illustrator
  • Skills 2
    • Information Design
    • Reporting
 

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. No related posts.

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Dust in the Wind: How Data Visualization Can Help the Environment

A recent study using NASA’s CALIPSOsatellite described how wind and weather carry millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert to the Amazon basin each year – bringing much-needed fertilizers like phosphorus to the Amazon’s depleted soils. To bring this story to life, NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization team produced a video showing the path of […]

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