Tools & Tips-list on how to make your charts more accessible to people who are colourblind. You probably know more people than you think who are colourblind! This is not a complete list, so please add ones I’ve missed in the comments! Free Tools & Tips Tip: Test your chart in greyscale By viewing your chart in greyscale, you can…

It is the last day of Mental Health Awareness month so here is my contribution. Quoting C. Lauber and co. from their 2006 research paper “Do mental health professionals stigmatize their patients?”: “psychiatrists hold the most pronounced negative attitude whereas psychologists had the most positive ones … Psychiatrists should particularly…

Python / Pandas / Excel / InkScape I recently came across London Poverty’s twitter page where they post charts about poverty and inequality in London. While scrolling I found this one on the migration of people in and out of London, with the text : “More people moved into than…

Behold: A cookiecutter for data driven journalism! — My work over the last two years has consisted of investigating algorithmic accountability and transparency, including a project on Uber published in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, and the creation of Algorithm Tips — a database where we curated algorithms used or endorsed by the US Federal Government that journalists can…

A typical week for me can involve collecting and wrangling data, running statistics, creating visualizations, and writing articles or blogs posts. …

Earlier this month I presented at the first ever European Data and Computational Journalism Conference (on twitter: @DataJConf, #datajconf), hosted this time in Dublin, Ireland. Next year it will be in Cardiff, Wales, and perhaps longer than 1.5 days. Being relatively new to data journalism — and only from the…