[ddj] Data journalism teaching materials -> color schemes

Fri Jan 18 15:49:05 UTC 2013

Hello Liliana,

I recently looked at Peter's tutorial, which I liked very much. I would only add a resource for better color schemes than Google's default ones - especially if you're using more than two or three classes. 

Colorbrewer is a good resource for that: http://colorbrewer2.org/index.php - the page is in Flash, but they have a little "Export" link at the left bottom side that allows simple copying and pasting the RGB values of your desired scheme.

Best
Michael

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Michael Hoerz
Digital Journalism
Berlin, Germany
www.michael-hoerz.de
@data_meining

on Fri, January 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM Liliana wrote:

> Hello everyone,

> I thought the teaching materials posted by New Scientist journalist Peter
> Aldhous on his website might be of interest to those of you who are teaching
> or training data journalism. You can find them here:
> http://www.peteraldhous.com/resources.html.

> Does anyone have other materials or tips they use to teach or train data journalism that they could share?

> Best,

> Liliana
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