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While preparing its opening strata, Kathryn

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spent a week with the team Datablog. This is what he learned from his time in the Guardian

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While preparing my main Strata with Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian, Datablog, I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with his team for a week and experience first-hand how to do their job.

Your work is so important, I wanted to share with you what I have learned and show you how you can apply some of the techniques of data analysis for their own work.

What is a data journalist do?

You can read the Guardian Datablog day to day, but do not really realize that the director and writers really. Before explaining what a journalist has data, Simon likes to explain what a journalist does:

• Prepare and report history

reveals and exposes the truth

• Research the history

• Investigate the facts

• Prepare and report history

not miss anything: these lists are identical! The difference lies in the methods and tools that the journalist uses data from your daily activity.

A day in the life of the Datablog

The day starts early and make a cup of tea. A morning conference maintains all equipment records both current news. After the meeting, are free for shopping. The fast-paced environment is clear: a history data can come to 13 hours and the blog accompanying be per 16 hours. Work can continue even during the lunch hour with occasional sandwich to be eaten in front of the computer. The stories were published before 17 hours, and then start work on the next day's messages.

fast paced environment means that data analysis tools that are quick and easy to use reign supreme. In fact, there are three main steps in the process that controls the Guardian Datablog the tools and resources they use:

• Data collection

• Tell the story

• Share data

After recognizing the important stories research goalkeeper Datablog supporting data. The data are available in abundance online. Popular sources of data used by the tutor are the National Bureau of Statistics and the World Bank.

Telling the story

An important part of telling the story includes the analysis of data. This may be something to find a single number to produce a very complex visualization. Test results to help the community understand the history and data. What tools do you use the Guardian to analyze your data?