Datasketch-Urbano continues to talk, this time within the framework of the fifth version of Abrelatam that took place from August 23 to 25 in San José de Costa Rica.

In the fight against fake-news, the designer and filmmaker Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis developed PolitiTruth: a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction in the United States.

Thomson Foundation, in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA), is inviting young journalists from around the world to submit their most compelling stories.

Climate Change Media Partnership offers a scholarship program that will allow several journalists to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP23) to be held between 6 and 17 November in Bonn, Germany.

Facebook: Security Guide for Journalists

New Google widget that confirms information

Fact-checking against fake news

Innovative Data Visualization

The goal of #GlobalFact4 will be to exchange experiences and address new data verification challenges among media representatives such as The Washington Post, RAI, Le Monde, France Info and organizations such as Full Fact, Checked, Google News Lab or Facebook.

The European Journalism Centre and the Google News Lab have decided to relaunch and update the Data Journalism Handbook, published in 2011. Calls for collaborations are opened!

The relationship between time and journalism is a complicated one. If the journalists need time to deepen their digital skills for reporting, it might seem like an impossible affair.

The people from Social Tic shared their advice to protect information and, no matter how sophisticated an attack might be.

These are the first international awards recognizing outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide and were given during the DJA Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

This week we have seen new and very interesting #ddj projects. This is our selection we believe may interest you.

The best-selling Freakonimics authors explain how they’ve been creating a data culture all their own, showing the world how to make smarter, savvier decisions with data.  What is their main advice to, in other words, think like a Freak? 

If you were not able to fly to Seattle to be part of the conference, you now can get the best of this data analysis event through their live updates and video streaming. 

Datasets are mostly never clean, neat or organized.They have  errors, missing values, wrong formatting… most of the times it’s a nightmare.

Wondering where to find reliable datasets you can use to do #ddj? Quartz’s data editor, Chris Groskopf, just released a curated list of useful datasets published by important sources.

Want to make your lazy data a cool GIF to tell stories? Google has launched a handy animation tool that essentially lets you transform your illustrations into animated comparison GIFs.

What do you do to decide which graphic you’ll use when you are telling a story?

The Wayback Machine allows anyone to explore historical captures (snapshots) of internet pages. For example, this was the homepage of the Washington Post on September 12th 2001.

The PNGimg platform offers at least 25,000 images in PNG format so you don’t waste time in the tedious process of removing the backgrounds and correcting the images.

After revising GEN’s choices, we’ve come with our own pick for each category.

Navigating the field of data journalism might be hard for those who are just entering the hard relationship between data, storytelling and programming.

Next week, El Salvador will receive again more than 3,000 journalists from Latin America to discuss the challenges they face while working in the region.

All the resources you need to develope data journalisim in one place. 

Protecting information and sources has been fundamental since the beginning of journalism, but the use of technology has made reporters have to look for new methods.

Four European data journalists at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia

Juxtapose was developed by the Knight Lab to allow users to compare two images.

Folleto es una moderna biblioteca JS que te permiten diseñar mapas interactivos.

his library allows you to highlight significant data from your data visualization.

Seeing Theory allows you to learn statistics using interactive visualizations. 

The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide. The deadline to summit for the 2017 edition is 07 April 2017.

This year comes the Data Journalism Awards  (DJA). These are the awards that for 5 years the organization Global Editors Network have been promoting. These awards have served as a reference and platform to highlight new data journalism projects with a focusing on data processing and structuring.

The need convey information with visualizations has increased with the availability of data sources, and therefore the supply of tools to create visualizations is on the rise. With so much on offer, what visualization tools should you choose for your project?

After Kimono’s death, many developers and data journalist cried their eyes out. Losing such a good scraping tool made it hard for all of us who use data as our daily input. Luckily, developer Kevin Çobanaj decided to follow Kimono’s steps and will launch Spiranca, a new app that will allow anyone to easily crawl websites and turn them into structured API’s.

The Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong is offering a five-week course on the fundamentals of data journalism starting 4 April, in partnership with the Google News Lab and top news organisations in Asia.