A visual overview of the history of gender representation at Britain’s repository of modern and national art — I’ve decided to begin this little project’s journey by joining the Tidy Tuesday fun, also for the first time, and catching up on last week’s challenge. What is Tidy Tuesday? Tidy Tuesday is an open space for anyone looking to practice their data visualization skills, mainly using R, the tidyverse package…

Příklad datasetu faktur Ministerstva pro místní rozvoj — V rámci tohoto cvičení si vyzkoušíme, jak dataset získat, vypořádat se se zrádným kódováním textu, seznámit se s obsahem několika tisíců řádků vydolovat z nich zajímavé informace za pomoci filtrů a funkcí / výpočtů. Získání dat Stáhněte si soubor s fakturami ve formátu csv: na webu data.mmr.cz -> Seznam uhrazených faktur MMR…

What happens when two curious minds with an interest in data and global events, still on the lookout for their future destinations, join forces for a data-driven project? In our case, it’s been a whirlwind of new concepts, trials and errors and lots of googling with a steep — sometimes…

Tady jsou příklady vizualizací vytvořených pomocí nástroje Datawrapper během cvičení k předmětu Digitální žurnalistika a datová analýza (JJM300) v rámci magisterského programu Žurnalistiky na FSV UK. Mezi základní a zároveň nejčastěji používané typy vizualizací patří následující: Liniový graf Použití: ideální pro časové řady (na ose x) Pozor na: nekompletní a přerušovaná data (vždy…

“There is no artist on the planet operating on a more global scale than Olafur,” begins one of the opening remarks on Eliasson’s work from Netflix’s Abstract documentary dedicated to the artist. But what does it mean? How global can art really be? …

Sri Lanka saw a drop in the number of tourist arrivals in 2019 as a consequence of the terror attacks earlier last year. In the first eleven months of the year, tourist arrivals decreased by 19.6%, according to the latest reports from Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. The terror attacks…

“So we had a movie and the filmmakers came and talked about the film process to kids who were about 10 to 12 years old and told them… ‘Well, we filmed some of the scenes again.’ ‘WHAT?!’ The kids went crazy! ‘YOU CAN’T! It’s a documentary!’” Their amusing reaction was…

I live in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The capital of heavy traffic, betel-red spit stains and noisy construction sites. In 8 months, we have gone through two floods, one drought, and most recently a bad Northeast monsoon. It’s not always the sunkissed paradise people imagine. I have become fond of my…

Friday was my last day at work. I said bye to the office that had been my home for more than six months. My first job abroad. The first full-time job in my life. The first workplace I’d grown to love. I arrived in Sri Lanka by the end of…