A walkthrough presenting the data sources used for the "Mapping Diversity" project and of how we extracted and combined journalistically relevant information – and of the many challenges encountered during the process.
What if the Olympic medal table was based on the number of medals won by regions, not by countries? Athletes born in Ile-de-France, Belgrade, Budapest and Guadeloupe were particularly successful at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
An interactive map showing the birth places of all the athletes that have won at least a medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, coming with some additional details and links to more information.
What if the Olympic medal table was based on the number of medals won by regions, not by countries? When everybody’s moved by the contagious joy of two athletes making history by agreeing to share an Olympic gold medal, the data analyst thinks: “two gold medals for the same competition? is this going to
A walkthrough presenting the approach and steps underlying our analysis of street names by gender. The method is based on the combination of data from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap with R.
A different visual approach to associate likelihood of occurrence of a given event to the lived experience of people viewing the graph. An introduction to a new interface developed by OBC Transeuropa.
Our new R package 'tidywikidatar' makes it easier for data journalists to take advantage of the information available on Wikidata. This walkthrough exemplifies the main functionalities of the package.
This post presents a data exploration tool developed by OBC Transeuropa for EDJNet. If you have a spreadsheet with longitude and latitude columns and would like to have a look at those data on a map or associate them with administrative units across Europe, you may find this tool useful.
This post describes a workflow and some points of reference for anyone tempted by the idea of using Google Earth for data visualisation, based on the R language.
The video points at some of the issues that characterise data grids on maps, and shows how gridded data can be generated via satellite imagery and machine learning techniques.
