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tools-for-journo

tesseract.js: a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images. (Demo)

tabula:pdf converter.

Jieba:text segmentation. Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese.

web scrapper

Google table convert: covert google spreadsheets into responsive HTML.

Google table converter: covert google spreadsheets into responsive HTML.

ai2html: converts ai into an HTML page.

Reveal js: create slides using HTML.

Mr. Data Converter: data coverter.

地號轉地圖:data source: http://twland.ronny.tw/.

Baidu Index Scrapper: python

Marine Traffic: worldwide ship tracking.

Satellite imagery: Maxar.

Satellite imagery: Planet Labs.

Guides

QZ's bad data gudie

Propublica data style guide

FT's visual vocabulary

Learning to Code

Scott Murray's D3 Turtorials

Jon Keefe's Mapping Tutorial

Something I wrote about learning to code.

Code with Me workshops, cheat sheets & online exercises

Michelle Minkoff's Graphing Tutorial

Communities & Behind the Scenes

NICAR, the NICAR-L listserv & the NICAR 2016 conference

Hacks/Hackers, which has meetup groups all over the country (and world!)

Knight-Mozilla OpenNews including the community/documentation project SOURCE and the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship

The ProPublica Nerd Blog

Bloomberg Businessweek Graphics Blog

How to teach #ddj

Dan Nguyen's "Public Affairs Data Journalism I" at Standford University.

Derek Willis's "Data reporting" at Georgetown University.

Simon Rogers' "Intro to Data Journalism" at Medill.

HTML/CSS & Making a Webpage

Make an website from scratch!

Don't Fear the Internet Video Series

Let's make a webpage Tutorial

HTML Beginner Tutorial

CSS Beginner Tutorial

Intro to Web Fundamentals by Scott Murray

The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize

Meet Your Web Inspector by Dan Nguyen

Data Vizualization:

Three Gifs for Better Data Viz

Good Ol’ Excel Is The Ultimate Data Visualization Tool

ChartBuilder

CartoDB

Google Fusion Tables

Timeline JS

TimelineSetter

Story Maps

Datawrapper

Highcharts.com

The Functional Art

Guardian Datablog

Flowing Data

Information Aesthetics

Eagereyes

Visualising Data

Fell in Love with Data

Web Scraping

Tutorial: Getting Data Without (Much) Code

Dan Ngyuen's intro to web scraping

Chrome Extension Scraper

Import.io

Scraping guide from the Propublica nerds

Data & Excel

A few of my own tutorials on Google Spreadsheets, Excel, and more Excel.

MaryJo Webster's data journalism training materials, including Excel Magic: Tips and Tricks (here's the data to go with it).

A list of tutorials from last year's NICAR conference

Free & Cheap Tools for Wrangling Data

PDF to Excel Converter

Extract an HTML table to Google Docs

Google Refine

My Favorite (Excel) Things

Design:

A Guide to Visual Design

Design Principles for News Apps and Graphics

The Non-Designers Design Book

A 20 Minute Intro to Typography Basics

Thinking with Type

The Art & Science of Communicating through Type

Five simple steps to better typography

Web Design is 95% Typography

Designing With Grid-Based Approach

Grid Anatomy

Kuler Color Wheel

Color Oracle

Illustrator/Photoshop:

Illustrator Basics: A Tutorial

Illustrator Tools

Getting Started with Photoshop

Photoshop Tips & Tricks

How to Make Animated Gifs in Photoshop

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