├── LICENSE └── README.md /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | No Copyright - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) 2 | 3 | The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated 4 | the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights 5 | to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and 6 | neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. 7 | 8 | You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, 9 | even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 10 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Awesome Journalism 2 | 3 | This is a collection of awesome things (preferably open source) to make your journalism better. Please add anything you think everyone should know about. 4 | 5 | ## How to add an awesome thing 6 | 7 | - open an issue with a link; or 8 | - fork the repo, add something, send a pull request 9 | 10 | ## Charts 11 | 12 | - [ChartBuilder](https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder/) - Chartbuilder is a front-end charting application that facilitates easy creation of simple beautiful charts. 13 | - [Datawrapper](https://datawrapper.de/) - Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes. 14 | - [Raw](http://raw.densitydesign.org/) - Tool to create interactive graphics from tabular data 15 | - [charted](http://www.charted.co/) - Create charts from CSVs or spreadsheet links 16 | - [timeline.js](http://timeline.knightlab.com/) - Creates timelines that are easy and intuitive to use 17 | 18 | ## Data Processing 19 | 20 | - [Open Refine](http://openrefine.org/) - Tool for working with messy data (cleaing, transforming, filtering, etc.). 21 | - [Mr. DataConverter](https://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/) - Converts Excel data into a web-friendly formats (HTML, JSON and XML). 22 | - [csvkit](http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.1/) - Suite of command line tools for converting to and working with CSV files. 23 | - [agate](https://agate.readthedocs.org/en/1.1.0/) - Python data analysis library, an alternative to numpy or pandas. 24 | - [proof](https://proof.readthedocs.org/en/0.3.0/#) - Python library for creating repeatable data pipelines. 25 | - [jq](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/) - A lightweight and flexible JSON processor (slice, filter, map and transform data). 26 | - [konklone](http://konklone.io/json/) - Simple JSON to CSV converter 27 | 28 | ## Documents 29 | 30 | - [DocumentCloud](https://www.documentcloud.org) - DocumentCloud is a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. 31 | 32 | ## Maps 33 | 34 | - [Pinpoint](https://github.com/dowjones/pinpoint) and [Pinpoint Editor](https://github.com/dowjones/pinpoint-editor) - Web app for quickly creating and editing Pinpoint maps 35 | - [Mapshaper](http://mapshaper.org/) - Tool to simplify and convert Geojson, Topojson and shapefiles. 36 | - [Mapbox Studio](https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio/#darwin) - Tool to create custom map styles. 37 | - [geojson.io](http://geojson.io/) - Web based tool to create and manipulate geo-files(geojson, topojson, kml, shp, etc). 38 | - [mapstarter](http://mapstarter.com/) - Web based tool to create interactive maps based on d3.js. 39 | - [ogr2ogr web client](http://ogre.adc4gis.com/) - Converts several types of geo formats to Geojson. 40 | - [cartodb](https://cartodb.com/) - Tool to create interactive maps. 41 | - [storymap.js](https://storymap.knightlab.com/) - Tool to help you tell stories on the web with interactive maps. 42 | - [Odyssey](http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/) - Tool to create interactive map based stories. 43 | - [dropchop](http://dropchop.io/) - Browser-based GIS powered by Mapbox.js and Turf.js 44 | 45 | ## Memes and Share Graphics 46 | 47 | - [Meme](https://github.com/voxmedia/meme) - Meme is a generator that Vox Media uses to create social sharing images. See working version at http://www.sbnation.com/a/meme. 48 | - [CardKit](https://github.com/times/cardkit) - CardKit is flexible, SVG image / card creation tool, with simple configuration options, which is easy to extend. 49 | - [Quotable](https://github.com/nprapps/quotable) - Quotable is an app that lets you make sharable images out of quotations. 50 | 51 | ## Resources 52 | - [Awesome Science Writing](https://github.com/HussainAther/awesome-science-writing) - Resources for science writers 53 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------