Marcel Pauly, his colleagues from SPIEGEL Data and BR Data evaluated reports from Schufa, the most influential credit agency in Germany. The documents were provided by 2800 volunteers in a crowdsourcing project. Some documents came scanned, some were photographed. It was an OCR nightmare.
A guest post by Marcel Pauly
With less than a month left to apply for this year’s Data Journalism Awards, here are some inside tips from the jury that may help you win one of the twelve prizes up for grabs.
A guest post by Marianne Bouchart, manager of the Data Journalism Awards
What do you need to be the perfect data journalist? Here is an extensive collection of skills you need to become the human Swiss Army knife for data. If you are willing to work 48 hours a day, you’ll get the knack in no time.
A guest post by Steffen Kühne
A guest post by Hans Hack
When working on map related projects, I often need specific geographical data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) from a certain area. For a recent project of mine, I needed all the roads in Germany in a useful format so I can work with them in a GIS program. So how do I do I get the data to work with? With a useful little program called Osmfilter.
