Just kidding! This like the last week of class where we get to watch movies instead of actually learning something new.
Let’s take a quick look back at some of the best tools from 2017:
- Gestimer, a teeny-tiny app sitting in your menu bar, pops up a reminder when you need to call a source back
- Google News Lab offers free (yes, free!) training to newsrooms that want to practice data visualization, research, and other nifty things with Google tools (Hint: Fill out the request form and mention me by name.)
- Audiograms make for a neat visualization of audio in Twitter – a hard thing to pull off, indeed
- Data.world and PowerBI are tied for neatest data tool – they combine Excel and SQL in the coolest ways
- DocumentCloud stores, annotates, embeds, analyzes, OCRs and does more stuff to documents than I could name here
See you all again in 2018! 📆