#data-journalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #data-journalism, aggregated by home.social.
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In 2025, an area equivalent to **eight Norways** burned across the planet.
That sounds like a catastrophe.
- It isn't quite that simple.Not every fire is a disaster. Some are natural. Some are deliberate. Some are tiny. Some are enormous.
So what actually happened?
Our latest feature digs into the satellite data behind **265 million hectares of recorded burned area** — and asks a more interesting question than simply *how many fires were there?*
**What the hell was actually going on?**
🔥 **EIGHT NORWAYS BURNED IN ONE YEAR**
A new feature from RABAGAS Magazine.
https://rabagas.ghost.io/eight-norways-burned-in-one-year/#Rabagasmagazine #Wildfires #ClimateScience #EarthObservation #ClimateCrisis #SatelliteData #DataJournalism #Climate
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A GitHub study tracking pull request language from early 2025 through mid-2026 found one vocabulary pattern grew from 1% to 45% of descriptions. The shift suggests measurable changes in how developers document code. https://www.implicator.ai/github-pr-ai-linked-vocabulary-1-to-45-percent/ #ai #softwaredev #datajournalism
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The next issue of Quantum of Sollazzo is hot off the press!
➡️ Subscribe at https://quantumofsollazzo.com/Highlights include
💡 my thoughts on trusting humans vs trusting AI, and why asking this question is important
🛠️ inline charts with a data font
🤖 Agentic Workflows (with Claude Code)
🎨 Nicola Rennie on "Why creativity matters in data visualisation"
🎨 Ben Shelton's outlier second serve
🤓 left-handed people probably aren't more creativeEnjoy!
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Online Journalism Blog: How data journalism is done on TikTok: six key takeaways from watching 50 videos. “In a guest post for OJB, James Hickman pulls together a set of basic best-practice guidelines for creating data journalism videos on TikTok, from length and location to animation and style.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/how-data-journalism-is-done-on-tiktok-six-key-takeaways-from-watching-50-videos-online-journalism-blog/ -
Public testimony may be "online" yet remain practically unreadable. I downloaded 700+ pages from a Salem City Council record, removed duplicates, redacted contact information, summarized 187 testimony records, and linked each entry back to its source page.
Concerning: Google's $5 Billion NDA #Datacenter
https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1156
#CivicTech #OpenGovernment #PublicRecords #GovernmentTransparency #LocalGovernment #CivicEngagement #DataJournalism #DigitalHumanities #PublicParticipation #SalemOR
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RELAUNCH – a new design for my #data newsletter "Quantum of Sollazzo".
With 4,000+ subscribers, it's a little but strong community.
Subscribe at https://quantumofsollazzo.com/ for a weekly data shot: AI, dataviz & journalism, tools, tutorials, and think pieces.
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Join us next week for a demo of the LLM Extension in #OpenRefine.
July 7, 2026
8:00–9:30 ET / 14:00–15:30 Berlin / 17:30–19:00 ISTThe session will show practical examples of using #LLMs in #OpenRefine workflows, including data journalism and #GLAM/library metadata use cases, local or external providers such as Ollama, and discussion with the extension developer.
Details:
https://forum.openrefine.org/t/community-call-openrefine-llm-extension-demo/2923 -
And here is the Github project for it, already with the CSV files for analysis of the data it's collected from the 388 weekly notices (of which it has happily processed 372 weekly notices; work still to come on 16 it's getting 404's on):
PTA TSR Collector - https://github.com/twcau/pta_tsr_collector
(6/x) #Perth #PublicTransit #PublicTransport #Python #DataJournalism #Railways #Australia
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Someone in the PTA's web team, if awake & alert on Monday morning is likely going to wonder... "Hey, why was someone programmatically navigating our DotNetNuke document browser on the weekend, and extracting all the Weekly Notices?"
Hope they stumble upon this toot for the answer - as they'll need alert their Ministerial Liaison and Public Relations Manager, because some #DataJournalism is about to give the agency a headache.
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Single HTML file, no tracking, no data collected, all calculations happen in your browser. Built to be audited.
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Join the next OpenRefine Community Call: OpenRefine LLM Extension Demo.
The session will show practical examples of using #LLMs in #OpenRefine workflows, including #DataJournalism and #GLAM/library metadata use cases, local or external providers such as Ollama, and discussion with the extension developer.
July 7, 2026
8:00–9:30 ET / 14:00–15:30 Berlin / 17:30–19:00 ISTDetails and optional registration:
https://forum.openrefine.org/t/community-call-openrefine-llm-extension-demo/2923 -
Digitale Belege sichern: Internet Archive nutzen und selbst anlegen – Mein Beitrag bei der Netzwerk Recherche 2026
Wie sollen wir festhalten, was wir im Internet finden? Mit einem Screenshot? Ein Screenshot fast so schnell gefälscht wie er gemacht wurde. Entwickler-Tools öffnen, im HTML den Text ändern, fertig. Schon ist aus einem möglich auf der Startseite von Netzwerk Recherche ein unmöglich geworden.
echter Screenshot
gefälschter Screenshot
Das war der Einstieg meines Vortrags bei der Netzwerk […]
https://katharinabrunner.de/2026/06/digitale-belege-sichern-internet-archive-nutzen-und-selbst-anlegen-mein-beitrag-bei-der-netzwerk-recherche-2026/ #browsertrix #dataJournalism #DigitalArchive #InternetArchive #Journalismus #webarchiving #webrecorder -
The Epstein Files: the AI podcast that sounds like journalism but isn’t. #Authenticity #datajournalism #JeffreyEpstein #Podcasts
https://iwpost.com/the-epstein-files-the-ai-podcast-that-sounds-like-journalism-but-isnt/?fsp_sid=9211 -
New York Times: Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet . This link goes to a gift article. “An archived website of FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism publication known for its polling analysis and election models, is now redirecting readers to ABC News, its owner and former host. As a result, many thousands of articles stretching back to FiveThirtyEight’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/17/new-york-times-thousands-of-fivethirtyeight-articles-seemingly-vanish-from-the-internet-gift-article/ -
Online Journalism Blog: Words as data: how data journalists tell stories about documents and text. “I compiled a list of over 200 pieces of data journalism where text or documents were used as sources. Quantification techniques ranged from counting the frequency of a single word and using Google’s ngram viewer, to machine learning and topic modelling. Looking at those articles it’s clear […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/words-as-data-how-data-journalists-tell-stories-about-documents-and-text-online-journalism-blog/ -
A blight that has bedeviled Kinloch for seven years is finally shrinking. Over the past week, workers have begun gnawing at a 6-acre mountain of shingles and other solid waste.
It wasn't always like this. Two derelict buildings on the site began as schools: Kennedy Junior High and Kinloch Senior High. Later they served as City Hall and a community center.
#environment #dumping #waste #stl #stlouis #kinloch #missouri #history #localnews #localjournalism #datajournalism
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This data story by #Tagesspiegel just won a European Digital Publishing Award in data journalism:
In 2024, @lehmann and I co-taught Mapping Cities – Making Cities to students of #InterfaceDesign and #UrbanFutures and one team asked: is access to a pool a matter of privilege? This question sparked an in-depth investigation that led to a surprising finding…
More about the course: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/mapping/
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As I'm involved in an EU-funded initiative creating new training and upskilling modules for data journalism, we're busy doing some preliminary desk research on currently available programmes across Europe. We're looking into both higher education / university programmes, and other professional trainings. If you have suggestions about such initiatives in particular outside big institutions, please throw a link my way! Thanks!
And if you're at #ijf26, see you there and talk #DataJournalism
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Day 2 of #30DayChartChallenge 2026: Pictogram 🐾
2,000 paw prints — one per beagle at Ridglan Farms, a commercial breeding facility in Wisconsin.
🟢 22 rescued 🟠 8 seized back by the sheriff 🔴 1,970 still inside
Interactive: nicolelily.github.io/pictogram/
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🌍 Data to stories that matter.
WorldPop’s high-resolution population data supported a New York Times investigation into sea level rise risks from Thwaites Glacier.
📊 4.7M more people at risk in Shanghai
📊 Up to 7M in BangkokFrom Lagos to New Orleans, our data helps show who is at risk - and where.
Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping-human-impact-worldpop-open-data-powering-global-journalism/
#DataForGood #ClimateChange #DataJournalism #OpenData #SeaLevelRise #FloodRisk
@newyorktimes @TheConversationClimate -
😆 Oh, look! Yet another revelation that confirms US healthcare is the ultimate one-up game where #insurers pay triple for the same hospital snooze-fest. 🤦♂️ Investigative data journalism at its finest, bravely crunching numbers nobody will ever read, while #GitHub dreams of a world where code writes itself. 🖥️
https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum #USHealthcare #HealthcareCosts #DataJournalism #HackerNews #ngated -
G. Elliott Morris reveals a striking truth: public support for military action in Iran is at an all-time low. With only 38% approval, this operation is the least popular at its outset in modern polling history. Dive into the full analysis and data to understand public sentiment: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-iran-attack-2026-03-06 #Polling #Iran #ForeignPolicy #DataJournalism
