The Data Journalism Handbook, for Free

You've read Edward Tufte's books on visualizing data, seen the popularity of infographics and the horrors of misleading charts, and followed along as Nate Silver turned political predictions on its head with data at The New York Times and then spun his work out into its own news project, FiveThirtyEight. Big data's the name of the game for IT, but it's equally the future of journalism as every possible thing in the world is quantified and tabulated. There's stories in numbers.

Finding those stories, and effectively telling them, is the challenge of the day, and O'Reilly's new Data Journalism Handbook follows in Tufte's steps by telling you how, in today's world, to let raw data tell a story—and shows the best examples of organizations that have put data journalism to work. It's a great read for anyone in journalism, and since it's free online, it's a no-brainer read.

Here's your chance to inspire yourself to make better stories from the numbers that are all around us today.

Continue reading at http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

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