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We collect articles and snippets all about Data (Learning, using and theorizing.). You can help us collecting news using the hashtag <strong>#dataroundup</strong> or by adding your ideas to the <a href="http://okfnpad.org/p/Data_Roundup_2014_%28School_of_Data">School of Data Roundup Etherpad</a>.</p> <p><b>Tools</b></p> <p>On Journalism.co.uk Alastair Raid wrote about the launch on next summer of <a href="http://trooclick.com/">Trooclick</a> an automatic fact-checking Firefox plug-in which will be able to verify the foundation of an article when a user reads it.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>Few days before the European elections day Simon Rogers published a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/may/23/animated-map-local-and-eu-elections-in-tweets?view=classic">map of the United Kingdom with geotagged tweets</a> mentioning the political groups represented in the parliament. Now that elections are passed it might be interesting to compare the results with the geographical distributions of the tweets.</p> <p>Migration has always been a constant in human history but how did it change in the last twenty years? Discover the new routes of the migrants on the interactive chord graph “<a href="http://www.global-migration.info/">The Global Flow of People</a>” by Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel and Ramon Bauer.</p> <p>In some countries getting a university degree might mean falling into debts of thousand of dollars. In this <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/5/14/5714546/student-debt-is-going-up-graduates-annual-salaries-arent">short article on Vox</a> Danielle Kurtzleben underlines the increasing gap between student incomes and debts.</p> <p>Alberto Cairo has recently accused websites (Vox and 538 among the others) of doing “datum journalism” and not data-journalism. The <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/when-data-journalism-becomes-datum-journalism/">Niemanlab</a> collected opinions from many different influential experts and academics on Cairo’s point of view.</p> <p>How many satellites are there in space? Who owns or controls them? What’s their main activity? Skies are populated of these rotating objects since the launch of the Sputnik in 1957. But what happened next? The answer in this data visualization: “<a href="http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/05/a-visual-history-of-satellite-launches/371394/">A visual history of Satellites</a>”.</p> <p>“<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/19/health/rating-a-health-laws-success.html?_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes">Rating a Healt Law’s Success</a>” is a great piece of data-journalism from the New York Times which shows the existing gap between nations on the number of deaths that could have been prevented with access to health care.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Milena Marin, Project Coordinator at the School of Data, collected, organized a released a list of all the interesting resources that were mentioned or used during the International Journalism Festival. You may find tutorials, readings, slides, videos and much more <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/05/23/ddj_resources/">here</a>.</p> <p>What’s the beauty of creating data visualizations? Listen to the answer that <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization">David McCandless</a> gave to this question at a TED talk conference.</p> <p>The first week of the European Journalism Centre MOOC “<a href="http://simonrogers.net/2014/05/25/introduction-to-data-journalism/">Doing journalism with data</a>” has already gone but Simon Rogers gently published the text of the first part of his module for all of those who might have missed it.</p> <p>Every once in a while It is always recommendable to update your list of people to follow on Twitter. Travis Korte from the Center for Data Innovation suggests <a href="http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/03/15-women-in-data-to-follow-on-twitter/">15 woman data-lovers accounts</a> which it might be useful to monitor.</p> <p>Another useful list of resources is the one suggested by the managing editor of the International Journalists’ Network Maite Fernandez: if you are looking for guides, articles, videos or data hubs take a look <a href="http://ijnet.org/blog/top-data-journalism-resources">here</a>.</p> <p>Working with data requires a methodology. If you are a novice you should take a look at this guide from <a href="http://www.ictworks.org/2014/05/26/3-steps-for-data-transformation-turning-numbers-into-knowledge/">Ictworks.org</a>.</p> <p>Open data may increase a government efficiency. If you have good idea on how to use data to improve public administration’s services then we suggest you to partecipate to the <a href="http://18f.github.io/ifgovthenthat/">If Gov Then That initiative</a>.</p> <p><b>Credits</b></p> <p>Thanks to Zara Rahman (<a href="https://twitter.com/zararah">@zararah</a>) and Lucy Chambers (<a href="https://twitter.com/lucyfedia">@lucyfedia</a>) for their contributions to this edition of the Data Roundup.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6918&md5=9e73eeed06f0fdcea74df2199f14b219" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/data-journalism/" rel="tag">Data journalism</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 28 May</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6883" class="extend post-6883 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-raw"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/05/14/data-roundup-14-may/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 14 May">Data Roundup, 14 May</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - May 14, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p></p> <div style="width: 3930px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2875/9386375141_77c339889c_o.jpg" width="3920" height="2940" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Manuel Acebedo – Lovely Universe…!!!</p></div> <p>Happy week! In our Data Roundup, we everything from Fertility rates data to D3 tutorials.</p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>La Naciòn invites the Argentinean data community to celebrate the 10<sup>th</sup> year of the Maestría en Explotación de Datos by participating to the conference “Hablemos the Big Data”. Program and speakers on <a title="www.datamining.dc.uba.ar/difusion" href="http://www.datamining.dc.uba.ar/difusion" target="_blank">www.datamining.dc.uba.ar/difusion</a>.</p> <p>Researchers at Politecnico di Milano Density Design Lab developed <a href="http://raw.densitydesign.org/">RAW</a>, an online platform built on d3.js library which allows high flexibility in creating beautiful data visualizations.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>With the era of Big Data came the era of statistical concepts like causation and correlation. Some say it is not possible to find a single cause for a single phenomenon but multiple correlations which simultaneously influence its occurrence. Sometimes correlations are very curious: take a look at those listed on <a href="http://tylervigen.com/">tylervigen.com</a>.</p> <p>Fertility rate is a demographic index with important consequences on certain markets. Toy industries, for example, have to monitor it everyday in order to foresee future trends. Paul Hodges states it clearly in its article “<a href="http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2014/05/08/guest-post-toy-industry-hit-by-lack-of-babies/?">Toy industry hit by lack of babies</a>” on the Financial Times Data section.</p> <p>Federica Cocco, journalist at the Daily Mirror Ampp3d, recently published the story of <a href="http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/2014/05/07/who-are-boko-haram/">Boko Haram</a>, the most violent and deadliest among the terrorist groups operating in Africa responsible for one quarter of the violent events occurred in Nigeria in the last 4 years. There are also <a href="https://storify.com/rachelfagen/charlie-simpson-feed-on-the-fivethirtyeight-use-of">some great conversations around the use of data tools</a> for complex data stories.</p> <p>Santiago Ortiz <a href="http://moebio.com/research/lifeuniverse/">Lifeuniverse</a> is an interactive selection of wonderful information visualizations created by teams or individuals.</p> <p>The Italian parliament is probably among those with the highest number of old members in the world. <a href="http://www.andreapinchi.it/dataviz/">Andrea Picchi</a> created an infovis showing the age distribution of parliamentarians since the foundation of the republic in 1946.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Another useful guide from prof. Bradshaw: <a href="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/05/09/coding-for-journalists-10-programming-concepts-it-helps-to-understand/">Coding for journalists: 10 programming concepts it helps to understand</a>.</p> <p>Are you a D3.js developer in search for tutorials on bubble maps? Maybe you might want to follow <a href="http://bost.ocks.org/mike/bubble-map/">these instructions</a> coming directly from the inventor of the JS library: Mr. Mike Bostock.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6883&md5=b61c1893c9c5eb38c41feec07e0e1f93" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/raw/" rel="tag">Raw</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 14 May</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6787" class="extend post-6787 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/05/07/data-roundup-7-may/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 7 May">Data Roundup, 7 May</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - May 7, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 1290px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3268/2926888858_534f43d621_o.jpg" width="1280" height="852" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Rick Harrison – Harvest</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>Spring is the season of data journalism events in Europe, and if you’ve missed the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, you’d better avoid repeating mistakes and register for the <a href="http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus">Dataharvest+ Conference</a>, which will take place in Brussels this weekend and will gather data specialists and coders from all over the continent.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gliadditivi.org/visualize/">Visualize</a> is a 96-hour workshop on data journalism and data visualization promoted by the association GliAdditivi. The event will take place in Lecce, Italy, and will last from May 8 to June 18. Special guest: John Grimwade.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>Paul Bradshaw on data journalism is always a point of view worth reading. Recently on his Online Journalism Blog, he had fun in comparing the emerging #ddj journalist communities to three different animals according to their different skills: <a href="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/05/02/data-journalism-in-2014-unicorns-racehorses-and-a-mule-cameo/#more-18755">unicorns, racehorses, and mules</a>.</p> <p>Thomas Piketty’s latest book “Capital in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century” is surely among the most influential ones in the US. On <a href="http://www.quandl.com/PIKETTY">Quandl.com/PIKETTY</a> it is possible to download and look into the 75 datasets used by the author to conduct his analysis.</p> <p>Every year, the American NGO Freedom House releases its report on the state of the art of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/may/01/press-freedom-2014-the-global-picture">press freedom in the world</a>. Leila Haddou extracted the data and published an article on it on the Guardian Data Blog.</p> <p>The World Bank is encouraging both countries and private actors to share and spread data at their disposal in order to create new social and economic opportunities. In its last spring meeting “<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/public-private-and-international-organizations-call-data-revolution">Talking about a Data Revolution</a>”, experts and observers discussed the role that open data may play for countries’ development.</p> <p>What are the main trends in the cost of living in UK and the US? Which prices increased and which ones diminished since the beginning of the economic crises? The <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2014/05/01/cost-of-living-uk-vs-us/">Financial Times</a> posted a short article which offers an interesting perspective on how poverty has changed in the two countries.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Freelancing is a widespread activity among journalists both offline and online. If you are new to this world and you need to know how to measure the value of the article you’ve written or the video interview you’ve conducted, take a minute to read “<a href="http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/05/01/how-do-you-cost-your-work-as-a-freelance-multimediadatacommunity-journalist-3-factors-to-consider/">How do you cost your work as freelance</a>”, again from the Online Journalism Blog.</p> <p>On the <a href="http://www.mulinblog.com/teaching-data-visualization-recommended-readings-and-resources/">Mu Lin Blog</a>, it is possible to find a list of readings, tutorials, and resources all exclusively focused on data visualization.</p> <p>The <a href="http://datavizcatalogue.com/">Datavizcatalogue</a> is an ongoing project developed by Severino Ribecca which contains descriptions and details on every possible way to visualize data. I also recommend that you take a look at its suggested readings section.</p> <p>One of the most promising and positive effects open data may have on societies is that it improves government transparency and helps identify cases of corruption. <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/open-data-tool-fight-corruption">Europe’s Public Sector Information platform</a> has released a report on this claim which is freely available on its website.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6787&md5=b3c7e3839144fa23382bf8e9bd22e849" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 7 May</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6774" class="extend post-6774 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-afghanistan"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/04/30/data-roundup-30-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 30 April">Data Roundup, 30 April</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - April 30, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 2967px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2552/3814037373_6ee5ecbc1a_o.jpg" width="2957" height="1919" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Martino – US Capitol Building</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>You still have a bit of time left to participate in the <a href="http://www.crisistextline.org/contest/">Data Visualization contest</a> launched by crisistextline.org, which aims at making the extent of the teen crisis (bullying, self-harm, abuse) social phenomenon in the US more accessible and understandable. The final deadline to submit your visualization prototype is May 2.</p> <p>The Knight Center for Journalism will soon launch another great MOOC called “<a href="https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-15538-sign-now-investigative-journalism-digital-age-knight-center%E2%80%99s-newest-mooc">Investigative Journalism for the Digital Age</a>”. The course lasts five weeks and will start on May 12.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>The elections for the US senate are about to come, and bets on the winner party have already started. But if you need a much deeper statistical point of view on the event, take a look at “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/senate-model/methodology.html">Who Will Win the Senate</a>?” from the New York Times (with interactive graphics made by Mike Bostock).</p> <p>Sarah Slobin is a data journalist who works as graphic editor at the Wall Street Journal, and she wrote <a href="https://source.opennews.org/en-US/learning/what-if-data-visualization-actually-people/">a very interesting article on Source</a> explaining why transforming data into visualizations is not always the right thing to do and why it is important to link the human element to the numbers.</p> <p>What can we expect from data journalism in the future? What is to come after the launch of FiveThirtyEight and the Upshot? ProPublica’s assistant managing editor Scott Klein <a href="http://towcenter.org/blog/publishers-can-afford-data-journalism-scott-klein-propublica/">analyses the state of the art of DDJ</a> in an interview published on the Tow Center website.</p> <p>Another interesting perspective on open journalism is that of Simon Rogers, surely among the most heard voices on the web when it comes to data and storytelling. This is his appeal: “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/04/vox-538-upshot-open-data-missing">Hey Wonk Reporters, Liberate Your Data</a>”.</p> <p>What role will data visualization play in the climate change debate? Will it help clarifying misunderstandings and promote a better confrontation or will it keep things as they are? Read Megan Albon’s opinion on <a href="http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2014/04/data-journalism-do-the-numbers-add-up-to-climate-action/">yaleclimatemediaforum.org</a>.</p> <p>Internews just concluded the first ever <a href="https://www.internews.org/afghan-journalists-put-data-journalism-skills-practice">data journalism training event in Afghanistan</a>.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Arthur Charpentier published a long, long, long list of interesting readings, visualizations, and blog posts for data lovers. Scroll it down on “<a href="http://java.dzone.com/articles/data-news-why-boom-big-data">Data News: Why the Boom in Big Data Journalism Makes Sense & More</a>”.</p> <p>Even though it may seem easy at first, selecting the right colors for your visualization is always a hard task. The guide “<a href="http://info.5amsolutions.com/blog/bid/176798/free-ebook-applying-color-theory-to-ux-design-and-data-visualization">UX color theory</a>” is a very useful guide that 5AM Solutions recently published and made available for free to anyone who wishes to know more about colors.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6774&md5=a2170c082de022d031f353d57ba5a475" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/afghanistan/" rel="tag">Afghanistan</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 30 April</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6756" class="extend post-6756 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-united-kingdom"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/04/24/data-roundup-24-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 24 April">Data Roundup, 24 April</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - April 24, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2325/2112861116_ede61a5096_o.jpg" width="640" height="480" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Takeshi Tanabe – Zoka Coffee</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>If you have an idea or lots of experience you would like to share with other data journalists, designers, engineers, and data scientists, you are still in time to participate as one of the several speakers at the next <a href="http://strataconf.com/stratany2014?imm_mid=0bb43a&cmp=em-strata-na-na-newsltr_20140423_elist">Strata World Conference 2014</a>. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 30th.</p> <p>Web scrapers have become the digital version of miners. If you are one of them or if you are just interested in scraping the web, here is a useful introduction from Ken Ross’s blog on <a href="http://kzhendev.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/scraping-the-web-with-power-query/?imm_mid=0bb43a&cmp=em-strata-na-na-newsltr_20140423_elist">how to scrape using Power Query</a>.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>The New York Times just introduced to the world <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/">The Upshot</a>, its newest experiment in data journalism and data visualization on political and social phenomenon. In its opening manifesto, David Leonhardt clearly stated: “One of our highest priorities will be unearthing data sets — and analyzing existing ones — in ways that illuminate and explain the news.”</p> <p>We have seen maps about people, natural events, and economic trends, but rarely about music. <a href="http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/americas-music/">Movoto</a> provided a solution to this problem by posting an interactive map of the United States, showing the distribution of music genres according to the number of people who listen to them.</p> <p>In addition to music, Nathan Yau suggests you also take a look at <a href="https://mapsbynik.tumblr.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census">this version of the US territory map</a> which represents the geographical distribution of population density.</p> <p>Britain is a melting pot of races, cultures, and religions, too. Is this melting pot of people from all over the world changing the predominance of Christianity in England? Gavin Jackson from the Financial Times tried to answer the question in his article “In <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2014/04/22/in-charts-a-christian-country/">charts: a Christian country</a>?”.</p> <p><a href="http://youarehere.cc/#/">Youarehere.cc</a> is surely one of the most beautiful geographical visualization experiments ever made so far. It is a website designed by the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab which displays a set of different maps, each specifically created to show a different type of data: bike crashes, coffee shop locations, and much more.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Statsmodel is a Python module used to extract and analyze data. Skipper Seabold published a nice introduction to it in <a href="http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/2014/04/diving-statsmodels-intro-python-pydata/">this post on the DC Data Community</a>.</p> <p>If you are looking for data related to international trade, exports, and imports of goods, then <a href="http://wits.worldbank.org/">World Integrated Trade Solution site</a> is what you need. The website is a World Bank portal freely available to anyone where is possible to filter your search per country. Siddesh Kaushik from the WB explains how it works <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/wits-trade-data-site-five-new-features">here</a>.</p> <p>Are you about to make a chart? If yes, then take a minute to scroll down this <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029239/infographic-of-the-day/30-simple-tools-for-data-visualization?imm_mid=0bb43a&cmp=em-strata-na-na-newsltr_20140423_elist">list of data visualizaton tools</a> published on Fastcodesign.com that you can freely use to draw the kind of graph you need.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6756&md5=5cac518a1c1c29a5f6cae7c663252728" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/united-kingdom/" rel="tag">United Kingdom</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 24 April</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6737" class="extend post-6737 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-infoamazonia tag-propublica"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/04/16/data-roundup-16-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 16 April">Data Roundup, 16 April</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - April 16, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 2088px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4062/4466965567_abbf8fe2a1_o.jpg" width="2078" height="1824" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ana_Cotta – saudades da Amazônia</p></div></p> <p><b style="color: #555555">Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>On Wednesday the 30<sup>th</sup>, the eighth edition of the <a href="http://www.journalismfestival.com/">International Journalism Festival</a> will take place in Perugia. The event has become one of the most important of its kind in Europe, and it will host hundreds of journalists from all over the world.</p> <p>The IFJ will also be the location of the third edition of <a href="http://datajournalismschool.net/info#.U0pT9lV_uSo">the 2014 School of Data Journalism</a> jointly organized by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation. The School will start on the May the 1<sup>st</sup> and will see the participation of 25 instructors from world-leading newspapers, universities, and think tanks.</p> <p>ProPublica just announced the release of two JavaScript libraries. The first one is <a href="http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/introducing-landline-and-stateline-two-tools-for-quick-vector-maps-in-your-">Landline</a> and will help developers turn GeoJSON data into SVG browser-side maps. The second is built on the previous one and is called Stateline and will facilitate the process of creating US choropleth maps.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>Chris Michael from the Guardian Data Blog recently published a short article listing the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/2014/apr/11/most-resilient-cities-canada-toronto">world’s most resilient cities</a>. Michael extracted data from a study of Grosvenor, a London-based company which measured resilience by assigning a value to cities’ vulnerability to environmental changes and their capacity to face political or economical threats.</p> <p>British citizens might be interested in the quality of air they breathe everyday. Those who are worried about air pollution should take a look at George Arnett’s interactive choropleth map showing the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2014/apr/10/air-pollution-deaths-uk-borough-interactive-map">percentage of deaths caused by particulate air pollution in England</a>.</p> <p>What’s the role of the world tech giants in politics? Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold tried to explain it in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transforming-power-and-politicsgoogle-once-disdainful-of-lobbying-now-a-master-of-washington-influence/2014/04/12/51648b92-b4d3-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html">this article on the Washington Post</a> by observing the evolution of Google in its lobbying activities at the White House. Google’s political influence increased enormously since 2002 thus making the company the second largest spender in the US on lobbying practices.</p> <p>Are conservatives all conservatives in the same way, or is there a certain degree of moderation among them and toward different issues? On his newly-born FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver faces the argument by displaying data on <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/like-bush-many-republicans-are-moderate-on-immigration/">the “partisan split” between the two US parties</a> on several main topics.</p> <p>If you are Catholic, or maybe just curious, you should be very interested in seeing <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thevisualagency/13100482435/sizes/l/">The Visual Agency’s last infographic</a>, which represents through a series of vertical patterns the number, geographical area, and social level of professions of all Catholic saints.</p> <p>Gustavo Faileros, ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowship, is about to present to the public <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/4/11/data-journalism-site-infoamazonia-will-add-ground-reporting-its-environmental-coverage/">InfoAmazonia</a>, a new data journalism site which will be monitoring environmental changes in the southern part of South America using both satellite and on-the-ground data.</p> <p>In addition, as environmental changes increase, so do the number of deaths of environmental and land defenders. The Global Witness team has just published its latest project, <a href="http://www.globalwitness.org/deadlyenvironment/">Deadly Environment</a>, a 28-page report containing data and important insights on the rise of this phenomenon which is incredibly expanding year by year, especially in South America.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Michael Corey is a news app developer who was involved in the realization process of the National Public Radio mini-site named <a href="http://apps.npr.org/borderland/">Borderland</a>. In <a href="http://cironline.org/blog/post/surprising-tools-cir-used-map-us-mexico-border-fence-6255">this post</a>, he analyses the main features of the geographical digital tools that he used to collect and display data on the US-Mexico border which helped him correctly localizing the fences build by the US government all along the line which separates the two Countries.</p> <p>The data-driven journalism community is expanding rapidly, especially on Twitter. If you need a useful recap of what has been tweeted and retweeted by data lovers, then the <a href="http://gijn.org/2014/04/10/top-ten-ddj-the-weeks-most-popular-data-journalism-links-10/">Global Investigative Journalism Network #ddj top ten</a> is what you need.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6737&md5=0efde1940e6985464730b81ef718c1c8" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/infoamazonia/" rel="tag">InfoAmazonia</a>, <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/propublica/" rel="tag">ProPublica</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 16 April</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6713" class="extend post-6713 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-google-flu-trends tag-la-nacion tag-los-angeles-times"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/04/02/data-roundup-2-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 2 April">Data Roundup, 2 April</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - April 2, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 3310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8425/7773471442_05408f1070_o.jpg" width="3300" height="2550" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ars Electronica – Brain Art</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>The Argentinean La Naciòn Data Blog continues to foster citizen participation in collecting and using open data. This time it did it by presenting <a href="http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/data/argentina/vozdata-transforma-tu-compromiso-en-accion/">VozData</a>, a shared platform through which people can transform complex public documents into easily readable databases.</p> <p>Do you want to put your visualization skills into practice? The <a title="Infographic Competition: Visualizing the Scale of the Brain" href="http://blog.visual.ly/infographic-competition-visualizing-the-scale-of-the-brain/">Infographic Competition: Visualizing the Scale of the Brain</a> gives you the opportunity to do it. Hurry up: the deadline is on April 30<sup>th</sup>.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>The Guardian Data Blog recently published two interesting data journalism pieces we would like to recommend. The first is an article on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2014/mar/27/death-penalty-statistics-2013-by-country">Death Penalty Statistics</a> written by Leila Haddou which summarizes the state of the art of executions in the world. The second is an interactive map showing country-by-country data on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/mar/24/young-adults-still-living-with-parents-europe-country-breakdown">Europe’s young adults living with parents</a> by Ami Sedghi and George Arnett.</p> <p>If you are a fanatic about cars, you should take a quick look at <a href="http://www.pinfographics.org/ig/exploring-your-cars-european-roots/">Exploring Your Car’s European Roots</a>, which displays the most important historical achievements in car and motor production.</p> <p>The Data Desk of the Los Angeles Times recently released <a href="http://maps.latimes.com/crime/?tumblr=2014-03-29&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">Crime L.A.</a>, a daily updated map which shows both violent and property crime trends in more than 200 neighborhoods of the city.</p> <p>Google Flu Trend certainly was one of the biggest experiment in predictive analytics ever done in the recent history. Read <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/google-flu-trends-failure-shows-good-data-big-data/">Kaiser Fung</a>’s point of view on why it represented a failure and <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/in-defense-of-google-flu-trends/359688/">Alexis Madrigal</a>’s arguments in its defense.</p> <p>Sam Wang from The New York Times published an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/how-to-think-about-the-risk-of-autism.html?_r=0">article with data on autism</a> showing the difference between the attention paid to the topic by the press and the scientific evidence.</p> <p>Cartography is surely much better now that the second version of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-internet-2-2014-3">Map of the Internet</a> has just been released. The display of the oceans and the lands of the virtual world absolutely deserves applause and five minutes of your time.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>The <a href="http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/2014/03/newsletter-jobs/">Washington Data Community</a> is about to start a completely new version of their weekly newsletter. Subscribe to it and you will also get useful data job alerts.</p> <p>A list of visualization tools is always worth reading. <a href="http://codegeekz.com/30-best-tools-for-data-visualization/">Code Geekz</a> assembled one that may interest you containing 30 links.</p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6713&md5=b4ae9e54392dac8536e07e368e5de210" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/google-flu-trends/" rel="tag">Google Flu Trends</a>, <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/la-nacion/" rel="tag">La Nacion</a>, <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/los-angeles-times/" rel="tag">Los Angeles Times</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 2 April</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6684" class="extend post-6684 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-human-trafficking"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/03/26/data-roundup-26-march/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 26 March">Data Roundup, 26 March</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - March 26, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3520/3912301038_6ac344ece5_o.jpg" width="1000" height="630" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eowyn_86 – Salvem La Balena / Save The Whale</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>It is true that JSON is increasingly becoming the standard when it comes to API formats, but what if you need to convert it into a much more organized CSV file? Thanks to Eric Mill, now you can do it quickly with <a href="http://konklone.io/json/">this tool</a>. Read more about it in “<a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/03/11/making-json-as-simple-as-a-spreadsheet/">Making JSON as simple as a spreadsheet</a>”.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>Dave Guarino tells us what <a href="http://daguar.github.io/2014/03/17/etl-for-america/">ETL problems</a> are and how we can succeed in solving them when we have to collect and re-organize datasets lost God-only-knows-where in the Web.</p> <p>What is the difference between data storytelling and data narratives? Dino Citraro from Periscopic explains it in his short and brilliant post “<a href="http://www.periscopic.com/#/news/2014/03/a-framework-for-talking-about-data-narration/">A Framework for Talking About Data Narration</a>”.</p> <p>It has not even been a week since the launch of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, and it is already attracting criticism from influential experts in the field, both journalists and not. If you are interested in reading a roundup of these opinions, take a look at <a href="http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2014/03/fivethirtyeight-data-journalism-and.html">Alberto Cairo’s blog</a> and at <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/this-week-in-review-nate-silver-and-data-journalisms-critics-and-the-roots-of-diversity-problems/">Mark Coddington’s article</a> on the Nieman Journalism Lab.</p> <p>The most honorable use of data collection and analysis is certainly that which helps people improve their life. Katie Fehrenbacher recently posted an article on Gigaom on <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/03/19/how-data-tools-are-helping-fight-human-trafficking/">how data can fight human trafficking</a> around the world which absolutely deserves to be read.</p> <p>Have you ever wondered how our brain stores information? Do you want to know what is the main task of your hippocampus? Find all the answers in this <a href="http://dailyinfographic.com/how-does-the-brain-retain-information-infographic">infographic</a> published on the Daily Infographic.</p> <p>What prevents the emergence of open data-driven businesses in emerging countries? Is it possible to fuel innovation in these states through the establishment of a new investment fund? According to Prasanna Las Das from the <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/time-right-open-data-fund">World Bank Data Blog</a>, this is the right time to do it.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Public transportation means are not always easily accessible by anyone. There could be people with difficulties (disabled or injured persons) which do not allow them to move freely on a metro. <a href="http://mappable.info/blog/2014/2/8/accessibility">Mappable</a> recreated an interesting series of maps showing those metro stations in Hamburg, London, and New York which are considered to be wheelchair accessible.</p> <p>The article also contains a link to <a href="http://wheelmap.org/en/">Wheelmap</a>, a web app developed to monitor and display wheelchair accessibility around the world.</p> <p>There are always experts that give useful suggestions on how to deal with open data, but these ones actually come from the father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and you may not to miss them. If you read this <a href="http://5stardata.info/">5-star deployment scheme</a>, you will find interesting insights on the costs and benefits of web data.</p> <p>To celebrate the World Water Day, the US open data portal <emph>data.gov</emph> released a series of datasets related to American coasts, oceans, and lakes that you can browse in <a href="https://www.data.gov/ocean/">data.gov/ocean</a>.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <p>Thanks to <strong>@jalbertbowdenii @zararah @DataAtCU</strong></p> <p class="wp-flattr-button"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/?flattrss_redirect&id=6684&md5=8169b357c1ca24362dd9c7a36aef6aa9" title="Flattr" target="_blank"><img src="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" srcset="https://schoolofdata.org/wp-content/plugins/flattr/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this!"/></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/tag/human-trafficking/" rel="tag">Human trafficking</a></span> <span class="comments"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Data Roundup, 26 March</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-6646" class="extend post-6646 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-roundup tag-data-visualization tag-google-analytics tag-r tag-upshot"> <div class="author-box"> <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=50&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2caba1515b7a44ace2dda1a976d8dc8?s=100&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy'/> </a> </div> <div class="post-content"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/2014/03/12/data-roundup-12-march/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Data Roundup, 12 March">Data Roundup, 12 March</a></h2> <p class="date"><a href="https://schoolofdata.org/author/mmenchinella/" title="Posts by Marco Menchinella" rel="author">Marco Menchinella</a> - March 12, 2014 <span>in <a href="https://schoolofdata.org/category/data-roundup/" rel="category tag">Data Roundup</a></span></p> <div class="entry"> <p><div style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" alt="" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2118/2280385549_a7b460ca14_o.jpg" width="600" height="450" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Code – mutednarayan</p></div></p> <p><b>Tools, Events, Courses</b></p> <p>Don’t miss the opportunity to design on of the page of <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2014/dataviz-challenge-design-a-page-of-my-new-book/?utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dataviz-challenge-design-a-page-of-my-new-book">Knowledge is Beautiful</a>, the next book of David McCandless. The challenge is open until March 24 and is also well rewarded with a prize of a total of five thousand dollars.</p> <p>Ampp3d, the Trinity Mirror-owned data journalism site, launched its own competition too. Aspiring journalists have to develop a <a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/ampp3d-and-interhactives-to-launch-data-viz-contest-for-students/s2/a556070/">mobile-friendly data visualization</a> which will be published on the Ampp3d website. The winner gets a hundred-pound prize.</p> <p>R is one of the top choices when it comes to programming languages for data visualization. Here you may find a tutorial from Daniel Waisberg on <a href="http://online-behavior.com/analytics/r">how to display Google Analytics Data</a> with it.</p> <p>The New York Times is about to reveal Upshot, its new data-driven website based on politics and economics, which will replace Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight. Read some updates <a href="http://qz.com/185922/the-upshot-is-the-new-york-times-replacement-for-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight/">here</a>.</p> <p><b>Data Stories</b></p> <p>This week we would like to start by presenting a series of infographics that are detailed as well as interesting.</p> <p>The funniest one is surely “<a href="http://visual.ly/twelve-world-records-you-can-break-your-lunch-hour">Twelve world records you can break during your lunch hour</a>”, posted by ChairOffice on Visual.ly.</p> <p>Big tech companies mean big business transactions. Watch this interactive explanation from Simplybusiness on the history of the biggest <a href="http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/hungry-tech/">Tech Giants Acquisitions</a></p> <p>Among the others mentioned above, we strongly recommend you see <a href="http://www.weather-radials.com/">Weather Radials</a>, a poster representing all the climate changes occurring in 35 cities in the world last year, which is also a data visualization masterpiece to admire.</p> <p>For a deeper understanding of visualization, take a moment to read this article written by Dorie Clark on the Forbes website, which reminds us why “<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2014/03/10/data-visualization-is-the-future-heres-why/">Data Visualization is the Future</a>”.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>See how tech enterprises and organizations are spreading across Africa in this map on <a href="https://womentechafrica.crowdmap.com/">WomenTechAfrica</a>.</p> <p>The toolkit of a data addict is growing every day, and sometimes you have to choose the right tool for your own project. 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Sometimes you have to extract them from multiple websites, and then scraping is the only answer to the problem. <a href="https://morph.io/">Morph.io</a> allows you to write your own scraper in Python, PHP, or Ruby. Give it a try!</p> <p>The NICAR 2014 conference ends today, but there is already a lot of material available online. 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If you know to want more about the main differences between its defense sector and that of Russia, you should see <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/5298314/data/ukraine-russia-data.png">this infographic</a> showing the two countries’ military power.</p> <p>Moreover, you might also be interested in knowing more about the economic relations that Russia and the European countries maintain. On the BBC News website, you can find <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26436291">Russia’s trade ties with Europe</a>; go and read it.</p> <p><b>Data Sources</b></p> <p>Thanks to the <a href="http://docs.hdx.rwlabs.org/">HDX platform</a> developed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, it is now possible to collect, share, and download data related to humanitarian crises in a much easier and faster way.</p> <p>The big data job market is expanding, and so is the need for frequently updated job boards. 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