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This question reminds me of the question “Is R or Python better for data science
(projects)?”. The answer is, in my opinion, not dependent on the definition of
data journalism but rather the following:
I recently wrote Quick Guide to Data Journalism , which describes the eight
steps that you need to go through to become a data journalist and comparing
data journalism to data science. To do this, I went through a whole range of
testimonies from data journalists and job descriptions. From this research, I
learned that R and Python are vastly popular in this field, but when it comes to
recommending one or the other, it’s usually quite simple: start with Python and
move to R for more advanced stuff. That’s the short-term vision.
Why would I make such a recommendation? Because Python is a general
purpose language and will already allow you to do most of the things you need
to do (web scraping, modeling, validation), but for the specific things, such as
statistical analysis and visualization, R is still a winner, even though Python is
definitely catching up on these two.
Given that in data journalism data analysis and visualization and reporting are
equally important, I’d say that you should consider learning both on the long
term.
If you want to know more about the differences between R and Python for data
analysis, definitely take a look at Choosing R or Python for data analysis? An
infographic .
And when you do start learning one or the other, consider starting for free at
Learn R, Python & Data Science Online | DataCamp , where you learn
Karlijn Willems, Data Science Journalist at DataCamp
Answered Jan 22, 2017
What your goal is (what problems you want to solve)
How is the net cost for learning one or the other?
What are the commonly used tools in your field?
What are the other available tools in your field and how do they
compare to R and/or Python?
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Depends on how you define data journalism. If you’re thinking primarily in
terms of doing visualizations and analysis on available/ready datasets (e.g. the
Census, IRS, BTS, Labor), then that’s a scenario for which the design of R and its
libraries are optimized. R is an easier environment to set up, and it is more
elegant in working with structured data.
If you’re thinking more in terms of the “journalism” aspect of data journalism,
i.e. that there is a lot of information that is not in packaged datasets, and that the
real world is extremely messy, then Python is the better choice because it has a
much broader set of libraries to do things like automated web-scraping, text
processing, and so forth. Pandas is not as elegant as R, but it’s good enough
given that it has to work with how the Python language is design, and it has
roughly all the functionality that you can find in R.
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Dan Nguyen, Knows excel but not excellent at it
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I was a data journalist for SBS. The kind of data I was using there didn't require
R. I used python for scraping websites and automating boring tasks. I'm not
suggesting you can't use R, but Python has so many more use cases.
This advice has a caveats: the data analysis I did was never extremely
complicated, and I mostly used Excel for that, but I knew if I needed to I could
use pandas and numpy. My use of Excel was because at the time I was a novice
programmer and very much a journalist. If you don't fit that description then
this may not be relevant.
There is another option: learn both. I work as a programmer now and can tell
you knowing several languages is going to make you a better programmer.
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I love R. For statistical analysis, to bring out the best out of data, it’s my favorite.
It also generates good graphics and does quite sophisticated scraping with some
work.
Python, though, is a rounder programming language and has better possibilities
for Web development integration. You can build a full site on Python, while in R
you can basically export your work to present elsewhere.
I’d say learn both and use what’s more convenient for the task at your hands.
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Marcelo Soares, Journalist and instructor, specialized in data analysis
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I don't know the ins and outs of data journalism but I do know that exporting
graphs, tables and code snippets is very convenient in R. Check out the knitr
package and the xtable package.
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