Among local governments, St. Louis city is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests.
For a third straight year, the city took more than 100 days to answer the Post-Dispatch's annual request for payroll data.
St. Louis County needed just 8.
Teaching R to investigative journalists in Brazil
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji)'s annual international congress will take place on July 10th-13th in São Paulo, Brazil.
The final day - “Domingo de Dados” (Data Sunday) - is a full day for journalist professionals and students to learn new skills to apply data science in their investigations and coverage.
Find out more! https://r-consortium.org/posts/teaching-r-to-investigative-journalists-in-brazil/
Excellent interactive piece on the physicality of data centres and their location in and around Dublin. Interesting conclusions and really nice visuals https://investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres #dataviz #maps #datajournalism #ddj
WADA president vows to keep calling out US anti-doping system flaws - Global Times
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Banka vowed on Friday to continue speaking out forcefully about what he sees as serious flaws in ...
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1335191.shtml
#doping #cleansport #antidoping #datajournalism
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'One-third of sport supplements contain banned substances'
More than one-third of sport supplements available online in Australia contained substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to a survey commissioned by the national doping watchdog.
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https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/6/271660/%27One-third-of-sport-supplements-contain-banned-substances%27
#doping #cleansport #antidoping #datajournalism
FiveThirtyEight, the website started by Nate Silver in 2007, and which shot to fame after its model predicted the 2008 U.S. election results in 49 of 50 states, is closing. This is a result of company Disney making cuts across ABC News, which acquired FiveThirtyEight in 2018 (Silver departed to start his own Silver Bulletin Substack in 2023). Here's more from NiemanLabs about what this all means.
Dites-moi, vous auriez en tête des articles de datajournalisme (ou des papiers scientifiques) qui s'appuient sur des données ouvertes et qui vous ont paru intéressants ? On doit en choisir un à analyser pour un devoir à la fac. J'avais bien apprécié celui-ci, mais les données ne me semblent pas ouvertes pour le coup : https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/02/05/les-donnees-des-telephones-redessinent-la-carte-des-transports_6532494_3234.html
Bom dia, Brasília! This week I will be at #OpenAmerica /América Aberta, so I will be posting about #opendata, #opengov, #AI —especially the state of the art in Brazilian #datajournalism, and reflections on where our movement is a decade(!) in.
They booked me at a hotel designed by Oscar Niemeyer himself! 
#midcenturymodern
The Mongabay Data Studio bridges the divide between environmental science and action by developing impactful tools, creating insightful data journalism.
Check out studio.mongabay.com to explore the studio's tools and more of Mongabay's data journalism stories like this one:
Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/revealed-biomass-company-poised-to-clear-bornean-rainforest-for-dubious-green-energy/
Mongabay is developing a suite of accessible visualization tools designed to empower journalists to create stories backed by accurate data sources, like this recent story about the economic damage done by fishing fleets with shady track records in five vulnerable countries: Ecuador, Ghana, Peru, the Philippines, and Senegal.
Visit the Mongabay Data Studio https://studio.mongabay.com/
What's your first move when you open a new natural-language dataset? What fun or insightful stuff have you found?
Almost 5 percent of Elon Musk's tweets consist of only the “tears of joy” or “rolling on the floor laughing” emoji.
When reporting this story about Elon Musk's political turn to the right, I turned to one of my favorite natural language data exploration techniques: what are the most common strings in this dataset?
So here you are: Elon Musk's most common tweets:
!
!!
Yeah
True
Wow
Exactly
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Today’s the day! From 9-10:30 a.m. EDT, discover the tools that are making a difference in combating deforestation. The Global Forest Watch webinar will showcase real-world applications of data that are preventing forest loss and will feature Mongabay’s Willie Shubert, who will discuss the real-world impact of data-informed environmental journalism.
Register now: https://mongabay.cc/gfw-webinar-mastodon
Discover how data drives deforestation solutions. Join us on August 8 for an insightful webinar exploring how Global Forest Watch is pioneering efforts to manage and protect forests through innovative technology. Hear from Mongabay’s VP & Executive Editor, Willie Shubert, about how data informs environmental journalism.
In its sustainability policy, Michelin highlights its commitment to “responsible and sustainable management of the rubber industry,” its “zero deforestation” ambitions, and its “commitment to protecting biodiversity.”
The flagship of Michelin’s commitment to sustainable natural rubber is the PT Royal Lestari Utama (RLU) project in Indonesia. But how green is this project, really?
The Mongabay Data Studio helps us visualize data and complement stories.
Trying to learn more data journalism skills - currently I am taking a course on the magic of Excel. At first I felt like "Wow, this is fantastic, such a direct and easy way to analyse data." But surprisingly often we end up with "it doesn't work" or "you would need R or Python for that". What would you recommend to an impatient journalist? (I am really impatient...)
#datajournalism #ddj
Deforestation inside protected areas in central Colombia appears to be picking up pace this year, suggesting the steep drop-off from 2022-2023 was just a blip, according to satellite data.
by Morgan Erickson-Davis
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/narco-activity-takes-heavy-toll-on-colombias-protected-forests-satellite-data-show/
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The visualization tools offered by the Mongabay Data Studio empower journalists to create stories backed by accurate data sources. Visit the MDS at studio.mongabay.com
Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
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#Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for #political spending.
ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow #journalists, #researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.
#News #DataJournalism #Journalism #Nonprofit #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/search-527s-finances-pacs-database-political-spending
Located in southern Nigeria, Oluwa Forest Reserve is supposed to be a bastion for the region’s wildlife.
But the influx of thousands of settlers into the reserve is coming at the cost of its rainforests, with satellite data and imagery showing ongoing clearing into primary forest.
Thanks to data visualization tools, we can see tree cover loss and where primary forests are still standing.
