Summary of Special Webinar Series | Data Verification | 10th September, 2022

00:00:00 - 00:50:00

This video discusses the basics of data journalism and how to use data to verify information. Anushka Dalmia, a data journalism trainer with data leads, demonstrates how to extract data from a PDF document using the Tabula software. Dalmia also explains how to select the headers manually and how to export the table as a CSV file.

• 00:00:00 This special webinar series discusses the basics of data journalism and how to use data to verify information. Anushka Dalmia, a data journalism trainer with data leads, will be discussing the training project.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses data collection and verification techniques, focusing on the importance of context and accuracy. It provides an example of how data can be misleading if not properly presented.
• 00:10:00 This 1-paragraph summary is about the video "Special Webinar Series | Data Verification | 10th September, 2022" and the usefulness of tools for data verification. The video discusses the use of tabula to extract data from an online source, and how Google Sheets can be used to store and work with the data.
• 00:15:00 The YouTube video "Special Webinar Series | Data Verification | 10th September, 2022" discusses how to extract data from an HTML website into a spreadsheet, using the equal to operator. The video also provides an example of how to do this.
• 00:20:00 Tabula helps you extract data from PDFs into any format, including CSV. It also has a feature called Auto Detect Tables which can automatically detect the table, and help you preview and select the correct columns for data analysis.
• 00:25:00 Google pinpoint is a new tool specifically designed for journalists that allows them to analyze various types of documents. It is an easy-to-use tool with many useful features.
• 00:30:00 The "Pinpoint" webinar series offers users the ability to search through and analyze vast amounts of data. The software can recognize words and phrases related to a topic, and can also identify important people, organizations, and locations.
• 00:35:00 This YouTube video provides a guide on how to get started with data journalism, including tips on where to find data stories, and how to get started with data analysis.
• 00:40:00 The presenter discusses how tabular works with image-based PDFs and how it is free to use. They also discuss how to get started with data verification and how to contact the people who created the data set.
• 00:45:00 The presenter discusses how to extract information from a PDF and how to make graphs quickly using Tableau. Tabula is also free to use, but requires Java to work effectively.
• 00:50:00 This video discusses how to extract data from a PDF document using Tabula software. The table contained a lot of different headers, which made it difficult for Tabula to automatically detect the table. The video shows how to select the headers manually, and how to export the table as a CSV file.