Tipsheet: Web tools for charts and maps
An example of a chart created on Swivel showing the total medals won by each country at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Matt Stiles, data guru at the Texas Tribune, wrote a great tipsheet with links to user-friendly Web tools for generating charts and maps. Stiles was one of the presenters at a Watchdog Workshop last weekend in Austin organized by Investigative Reporters and Editors.
These are handy tools if you’re analyzing public data and need to create a graphic or map that will help readers immediately grasp what your analysis shows.
Tags: Charts, Computer-Assisted Reporting, Data, Journalism, Maps, Web Tools
