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Earlier this year, friends and colleagues Zach Gallinger and Arik Motksin launched 10and3, a site dedicated entirely to telling stories through data.

Web scraping is useful for helping journalists handle large amounts of information, but ethical guidelines don’t yet address how to use this data reporting tool.

As public institutions publish more data online, web scraping has become a useful tool for reporters who want to sift through large amounts of information.

In this era of information abundance, journalists should now be keeping spreadsheets, not just notes.

Think you need to be a math genius or coding savant to produce compelling data stories? Think again.

“Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content” examines the newsroom practices that lead to spreading misinformation when reporting on unverified claims.

Geographer and informatics consultant Hugh Stimson on the tools and approaches that make for great data stories.

Skelton won the Data Journalism Award for best individual portfolio.

Carleton University journalism students undertook an ambitious project to data map all the funding announced in 2013 by the federal government. J-Source publisher and Carleton journalism professor Christopher Waddell explains how his…

Time consuming, crazy-making and a vital tool for investigative reporting: Anna Mehler Paperny, senior producer of globalnews.ca's investigative data desk, explains the ins and outs of data-driven journalism and why more journalists…