VISUALISATION TOOL REVIEWS
3 new tool reviews are now up on our Visualising Information for Advocacy website (RAW, Datawrapper and CartoDB.)
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DATA IS PART TRUTH, PART LIE
"As a case study, the the social production of data about sexual violence in conflict reveals that data about an issue may be near-impossible to arrive at reliably."
The latest post on our Visualising Information for Advocacy Blog, by Maya Ganesh.
TACTICAL STUDIOS: POSTER REPORT FOR FRIDA|THE YOUNG FEMINIST FUND
(Part of the FRIDA annual report 2013, design by our Tactical Studios)
WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNING: HINDI, ARABIC, SWAHILI
TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE DIGITAL WORLD (BY BECKY HOGGE)
Our client-based creative arm Tactical Studios has been working hard of late on a series of “Travel Guides”, developed by Global Partners Digital.
MYSHADOW 2.0: RE-DESIGNED AND TRANSLATED
UPDATED: TOR HANDS-ON GUIDE
The Hands-on Guide section of Security in-a-box, created in collaboration with Frontline Defenders, has been updated with the latest version of the Tor Project's Tor Browser Bundle.
VISUALISING INFORMATION FOR ADVOCACY: GEORGIAN TRANSLATION
JumpStart Georgia, an NGO which works on data-related projects, has kicked off translations of our book. The introduction and first chapter are now available in Georgian, in PDF form.
Order Visualising Information for Advocacy (in English) on the book's website, if you haven't already.
HOW TO GET DATA OUT OF PDFs
You have all this data... but grnngh, it's in a PDF! How to get it out? "How to tackle PDFs with a tool called Tabula" is another recent addition to the resources section of our Exposing the Invisible project.
LEARNING TO LISTEN TO YOUR DATA
New on our Exposing the Invisible resources page: how to begin approaching and thinking about stories in data, by Marco Tulio Pires, data journalist and School of Data mentor.
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To celebrate the arrival of the second edition of Visualising Information for Advocacy we have prepared an unpacking video that we've called "The Arrival".
See how the new cover was made, in this post by the cover designers, La Loma.
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The attack on the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo has particular significance for our work, and raises old and new troubling questions.
Have a look at our new project, Trackography: You Never Read Alone
Catch up on our latest news as well as a round-up of interesting things we've been reading lately.
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The latest in our series of 'Community Focus' guides based on Tactical Tech and Front Line Defenders "Security in-a-Box" toolkit.
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We're excited to announce the launch of a new Guide.