#6: Yellow Ledbetter’s Role in the Set

Some bands stick to similar sets from night to night, and others are known for being deeply improvisational. Pearl Jam has a reputation for having a wide range of songs to choose from, yet they seem to really like ending their concerts with a song called Yellow…

Jon Bell

Aug 4, 2016

#6: Charting the Four Trump Flops

There’s this strange thing that Trump always does…

Jon Bell

Jul 28, 2016

#5: Analyzing Trump’s Convention Bounce

(As of July 28th, the historic peak of his popularity)

Today we’re going to be analyzing the Real Clear Politics graph found on their General Election tracker. Trump recently had a convention and his…

Jon Bell

Jun 23, 2016

#4: US Political Party Affiliation Trends

Last time I talked about my desire to show data better. Pasting images is fine, but I’d like to explore ways to put the data into the document itself. But until I can figure that out, please enjoy this pasted image.

Jon Bell

Jun 20, 2016

#3: The Limitations of Displaying Detailed Data

There are a few stages to data journalism. First you have to get the raw data, then you need to pull insights from it, and finally you need to tell a story. And it’s the telling of the story that things get really complicated. Text is easy — write…

Jon Bell

Jun 18, 2016

#2: A Whole Bunch of Resources

I asked some friends and co-workers what sorts of resources they have and I got a giant list. I’ve been working through them slowly.

https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/strategy-studies/data-resources/

Jon Bell

Jun 17, 2016

#1: About Data Playground

I’ve never been a journalist, but I love to write. I’ve never taken a statistics class, but I like spreadsheets. I know how to write code, but only barely.

But I really want to be a data journalist.