At Data Journalism UK 2016 Philip Nye from Education Datalab talked about how the organisation created dashboards as part of its work. Here are his slides.

1. Dashboards
and
automation
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2. @philipnye
Researcher, Education Datalab
@EduDatalab
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Freelance reporter
(data, public policy, privacy)

3. Dashboards.
tinyurl.com/ChicagoTribuneDashboard
tinyurl.com/FTDashboard
tinyurl.com/PNDashboard
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4. Technical spec.
Backend:
• Python 2.7
• QuickCode.io
• tinyurl.com/QuickCodeJournalists
Frontend:
• D3 (JavaScript)
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5. Automation.
Education Datalab’s results day coverage
@EduDatalab
Input: badly formatted Excel docs
Output: well-formatted Excel docs
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6. tinyurl.com/PNDashboard
@EduDatalab
tinyurl.com/EduDatalabGCSEs
tinyurl.com/EduDatalabALevels
Let me know what you think.
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Links.