1. A data journalist’s toolkit
Tools to collect and structure information

2. Google Docs: Powerful tools
for poets
Scrape data into a spreadsheet
Import data
from a live data feed
Collect your own data

10. Guardian: Iran faces of the dead
and detained

11. Easy Mapping tools

12. Easy Mapping tools

13. Outwit Hub: Simple scraping
Easily grab the data from a table or from a list
Grab links from RSS feeds
Automatically grab links from successive
pages via search

14. Outwit Hub: Simple scraping

15. Outwit Hub: Simple scraping

16. OutWit Hub: Link scraping

17. OutWit Hub: Link scraping

18. OutWit Hub: Link scraping

19. OpenCalais: Data from text

20. Slate’s NewsDots

21. ThinkMap: Showing
connections

22. Who runs Hong Kong
When it does all come
together, it will be a way to
extract more value out of
journalists’ work on a day-to-
day basis
-Reg Chua, former
Editor-in-Chief, South China Morning
Post, now Reuters data editor

23. Kevin Anderson,
journalist and digital strategist
Twitter: kevglobal
kevin@charman-anderson.com
http://charman-anderson.com