5 Sites for Journalists to Learn How to Code
By: Amr Eleraqi
Tags: Infotimes Blog, Design, Data Visualization

With the growing use of data journalism in Arab newsrooms there is a necessity to tell the press the story in an interactive way to ensure that the reader microcontroller drawing context of the story and make it interacts more with the data, which requires the press to deal with Coded Albermjbh other than text, images and video clips to build a press story interactive.

For this purpose may cooperate journalist with the software developer in the Press Foundation, which works to their advantage to work together to produce a press story, or by learning to do this through a number of sites that offer ready-Coded for more graphic formats to use and which are easily adapted to make it suitable for the content of any story press, which what makes journalistic story takes half the time to provide the parts can be built upon.

The following are the top five sites Coded software allows a quick preparation, you can easily be discovered by embedding tags Albermajh and make some minor adjustments:

1- Google Developers

The site provides all the different types of forms such as drawing graphs and graph linear drawing circuit diagrams and columns, as well as the multiple world map of BB, as well as maps tree. The site does not require high skill of the press to deal with the software code where it was easy to copy and modify the data inside of the changes automatically figure chosen according to data by the press by placing them in compiled code, and in less than a few minutes can press out the story of journalist interactive, here are interactive for Exporting Countries Map fighters in the organization of the Islamic state, and you set up using maps Available on-site.

2- d3plus

Location depends on open source codes, which the programmers designed the initial version and publish them for everyone to develop and work to improve it, and here the journalists could get a ready-made tags and add data to the press Baksham code. The site being put largest of shapes and graphs of the number, plus they are characterised with high quality in design, making it more attractive to the reader.

3- d3.js

The site contains more than 250 software code fast preparation, divided according to the different categories most notable is the basic graphic formats animation and graphics in addition to the innovative visual models to display the data and Mgarantha each other. You can also use the site Kmthelh from previous sites by copying the software code to your website and then work to modify the data in it. But you could also use the developer of the software if you wish to modify the spaces and colors, what distinguishes the site is Onha Atdmanan a large number of models and visual perceptions that address data and make the relationship between the data in an easy and graphics, here an interactive map has been implemented using the codes available on site.

4- site datavisualization.ch

The site does not work according to the usual way in which it operates previous sites which displays graphs and Coded their own, while the site displays journalistic projects that have been Anjazha by software developers and explains how to implement, it also provides the possibility to communicate with the press entrepreneurs to obtain a copy of the compiled code own and then work on the modified and developed to correspond with other press story.

5- OpenProcessing

This site comes in the last list in terms of the multiplicity of forms and ease of use, as it does not offer a lot of free models, and provides updated monthly subscription service in return for providing the largest number of ready-made tags.

Despite the fact that the previous five sites were not displayed is the leading provider of software Coded noodles, where preceded Manyeyes site and site refuse but they were not able to evolve and keep pace shift that occurred in the data processing industry.