51 Open Source Data Journalism Software Projects

Create explorable explanations and interactive essays.

Links for the OSINT Team

A Collection of Cheatsheets, Books, Questions, and Portfolio For DS/ML Interview Prep

All of our computational notebooks

The data journalism platform with built in training

The Los Angeles Times' open-source archive of California coronavirus data

Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humans

Computer-Assisted Reporting and Data Journalism Syllabuses, compiled by Dan Nguyen

Awesome list for data journalists and future data journalists

Data journalism and easy to replicate notebooks using Python, R, and Web visualisations

List of newsrooms around the world that are using software engineering, data science, osint, and various tech to elevate reporting.

Data-driven, participatory fact-mapping

📚️ ➕ 🔢 Tell little stories with numbers

A Los Angeles Times analysis of Every shot in Kobe Bryant's NBA career

A deprecated Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API

A Los Angeles Times analysis of serious assaults misclassified by LAPD

A Los Angeles Times analysis of arrests of the homeless by the LAPD

A template for data journalism in R

All of our code examples and tutorials

An automated, programming-free web scraper for interactive sites

A Los Angeles Times analysis of crop worker pay in California

Resource to bring code and journalism together for fun

Combine U.S. census data responsibly

A Los Angeles Times analysis of street racing fatalities in L.A. County

A graphical editor for creating Idyll documents.

An embeddable map that shows climate change projections. How hot will it be by 2070 if we don't do something about it? Accessible at https://climatechange.codeforafrica.org

All of our open-source software packages

A Los Angeles Times analysis of California's costly power glut

A step-by-step guide to publishing a standalone story from a dataset.

A Los Angeles Times analysis of California buildings within fire hazard zones

A Django application to archive real-time earthquake notifications from the USGS's Advanced National Seismic System

Analyze the margin of error in U.S. census data

The once and future blog

datasets with text data for use in NLP, Text analysis, information extraction, ML research.

Easily download U.S. census maps

Source code for "Inside Cricket: A fifth umpire' view of your favorite sport"

ReproZip for the Preservation of Web Applications

Tutorial apresentado no Coda.BR

Project website, methods and graphics for the investigative project on the Right to be Forgotten

The Los Angeles Times' database of people killed by local police in Los Angeles County.

Application for https://www.r-consortium.org/projects/call-for-proposals

The Los Angeles Times analysis of temporary visas granted to foreign agricultural workers

🚢 Code & data behind "Our Immigrant Story"

ICIJ #Fincen Files in Neo4j

The open-source web scrapers that feed the Los Angeles Times California coronavirus tracker.

Simple maps of California's 58 counties

A curated list of resources for (aspiring) data journalists

R package to help wrangle campaign finance data 💸

A Los Angeles Times analysis of the dialogue spoken in Star Wars episodes 1-8

A base library for building web scrapers for statistical data, and a helper ontology for (primarily Swedish) statistical data.

changedetection.io - The best and simplest self-hosted open source website change detection monitoring and notification service. An alternative to Visualping, Watchtower etc. Designed for simplicity - the main goal is to simply monitor which websites had a text change. Open source web page change detection - Now also includes XPATH and JSON API change detection and monitoring support!