Fwd: [ddj] Great illustrated tutorials for Maps and Timelines

[Pedro Markun]

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From: mirko....@gmail.com <mirko....@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:51 AM
Subject: [ddj] Great illustrated tutorials for Maps and Timelines
To: "List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism." <data-driven...@lists.okfn.org>


Hi everyone,

Lisa Williams found a good way for "insanely illustrated" tutorials around data-driven projects. 

She published one about TileMill/maps in April and now a guide for creating a timeline.

I do like the style and structure of these. When training journalists an overlooked obstacle is that using Javascript-libraries, etc. calls for a different organization of stuff on the users computer: They need the command line, they need to go into folders to change data, oh, and here is GitHub, etc. Not that difficult if you did that a few times, but quickly confusing and essentially new. In many trainings I found that for some even Excel is kind of "new". My focus is on training journalists to use data, so any approach to overcome those issues is welcome.

The tutorials from Lisa do that very well - they have a beginning and an end, they go step-by-step, users have a good chance to succeed. 

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Here are the links to the first two tutorials:

The insanely illustrated guide for your first tile mill map

http://dataforradicals.com/the-insanely-illustrated-guide-to-your-first-tile-mill-map/

The absurdly illustrated guide for your first data-driven timeline

http://dataforradicals.com/the-absurdly-illustrated-guide-to-your-first-data-driven-timeline/

+++ Lisa's website is apply named "Data for Radicals". There you have it. 

Best,

Mirko

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