Data Journalism

Performs and explains basic statistical calculations — percentages, percentage changes, per-capita rates, averages, medians, and ratios — from data you provide, showing the working so...

Identifies unusual values, unexpected patterns, and potential stories hidden in a dataset by systematically checking for statistical outliers and contextual anomalies.

Identifies the newsworthy story or stories hidden inside a dataset before any writing begins — surfacing angles, outliers, trends, and comparisons that are genuinely publishable....

Produces a structured summary of what a dataset contains, what it covers, what its limitations are, and what story angles it could plausibly support —...

Analyses poll or survey results and writes a clear, accurate, publication-ready explanation for a general audience — covering the headline finding, key subgroup breakdowns, methodology...

Rewrites a complex statistic — including percentage changes, relative risk, confidence intervals, medians, and index numbers — in plain language that a general audience can...

Writes clear, step-by-step instructions for cleaning a messy or inconsistent dataset — specifying exactly what needs to be standardised, corrected, or removed to make the...

Drafts a Freedom of Information request specifically targeting datasets, databases, or digital records — written to maximise the chance of receiving complete, machine-readable data rather...

Produces a structured extraction plan and clean spreadsheet template for pulling tabular data out of a PDF document — identifying the table structure, defining column...

Writes a clear, technical brief describing exactly what data needs to be collected from a website or set of web pages, how it should be...

Writes a precise, publication-standard corrections notice for a data error published in an article — stating clearly what was wrong, what the correct figure is,...

Writes precise, publication-standard footnotes for data claims in a finished article — citing sources accurately, explaining how figures were derived where necessary, and flagging any...

Writes a plain-language explanation of a data journalism methodology — what data was used, where it came from, how it was processed, and what the...

Writes a precise, accessible text description of a data visualization — covering the chart type, what it shows, the key finding, and the data range...

Writes clear, precise axis labels, legends, annotations, and source lines for a chart — the text layer that makes a graphic publishable.

Recommends the most effective chart type for your data and editorial goal, explains why it works, and warns you about common misrepresentations.

Formats raw or messy data into a clean, publication-ready table with appropriate headers, sorted rows, consistent number formatting, and a source note — ready to...

Writes a detailed, production-ready brief for an infographic designer from raw data or findings — specifying the story, the key figures, the recommended visual approach,...