Tools

A platform that allows journalists to scrape, clean, analyze and visualize data without requiring any coding

A visualization and analysis tool designed for sets of documents, from dozens to millions of pages of material. Originally built for investigative journalists, it’s also used for legal work, training machine learning models, and research of all types.

An open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines

A front-end charting application created by Quartz to help crank out attractive visuals for data-driven stories

Cloud-based mapping suite that allows you to work your data into attractive custom maps

Open-source tool that guides you through the creation of simple interactive graphs

An interactive data dashboard tool that does charting, mapping and other visualizations

A web application for creating custom maps. You can manage and create map styles, datasets, and tilesets

A downloadable software that helps you sort and sift dirty data, cleaning it to the point where you can start your actual analysis

A downloadable software that allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Free software package for OS X, Windows and Linux that can manipulate and geographic information (e.g. shapefiles)

An interactive web-based notebook that integrates code and its output, mathematics, rich text and plots.

A map styling software package from MapBox that allows you to create beautiful maps with ease. Maps are hosted on the (paid) MapBox platform

An open-source command-line tool designed by the AP to help journalist in creating data projects; keeping all parts separated, from data to code to configuration to documentation; and automate data and code syncing for storage and backup

Based on two of its major collaborative projects, ProPublica built this open-source tool to help journalists and editors deal with data collaborations across newsrooms (from uploading a shared spreadsheet to deciding who sees what)

An open-source tool by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists created to lodge and search pdfs, images, texts, spreadsheets, slides and any files simultaneously

A data visualization platform designed to assist investigative journalists, activists and others in mapping complex business or crime networks

A powerful tool for data manipulation and analysis that runs R, a programming language largely used for statistical processing.