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Reproducible Data Journalism Workshop

Pierre Forcioli-Conti edited this page Nov 8, 2018 · 5 revisions

Reproducible Data Journalism without Coding

A workshop at Columbia Journalism School, Nov 8 2018

Workshop materials

Example workflows we'll be building:

If you want to scrape you will definitely want to check out Selector Gadget, which will write the appropriate xpath for you.

Documentation

For general instructions, see the Workbench Knowledge Base.

What else Workbench can do

Data cleaning: See several examples from Amanda Hickman's data course at Berkeley.

Setting up alert to know when a Twitter account uses a specific word, and visualizing when that word is used over time (https://app.workbenchdata.com/workflows/3333/)

Monitoring public data on a governmental portal and creating a chart that updates when the source does (https://app.workbenchdata.com/workflows/1896/)

Scraping a website to receive email notifications when specific documents have been published online (https://app.workbenchdata.com/workflows/1831/)