Journalism is no longer just a block of prose on a page. The modern reader often demands maps, info graphics and visualizations to make a story jump out at them, particularly in digital environments. There is a vast array of free tools available on the web to allow data-journalism to quickly and easily digest process and display the data powering stories.
All these tools were presented in the workshop which took place in Hotel Sangalo, in Perugia. It is necessary to mention them: high charts, D3.js, gRaphael.js, Protovis.js, Flot.js, tableau, Google fusion tables, Google static charts, Google interactive charts and many eyes. If you would like to know how to use all of them just visit the following link: http://so.danwin.com/slides/beauty-of-data.html#1
After the presentation, examples were given. One of them is „Data wrapper”.
You should go to this website and get a free account. Then you should past the data from excel, choose the right visualization, then change the size and embed. Finally you will have a pretty table!
At the end of workshop the advantage of „Google maps” was presented. One of the speakers asked the audience if they understood anything what he was talking about. And this question was really appropriate: it is better to try using “Google maps” as a tool for making data pretty and to see what abilities do you have with it, then just to listen about it.
Kristina Aksamitaite