Media Hack’s Passmark project has been shortlisted in two categories in the worldwide Data Journalism Awards run by the Global Editors Network. Passmark was been shortlisted in both the Data Journalism Website of the Year  and the Public Choice categories.
According to the organisers there were

The 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA) in South Africa was an event that most of the country was eagerly looking forward to. The reason was that it was to be the first SONA by the country’s newest president, Cyril Ramaphosa, following the resignation

Last week we published a new data story for our Passmark project. The story looks at the South African schooling system and how pupils progress (or don’t progress) through the system, and paints a bleak picture of the state of education in the country. “In

It’s one of data journalism’s most frustrating challenges. You have a dataset which is perfect for your project, but the data is locked in a PDF that makes it almost impossible to extract. You could try and retype the data yourself, but what if the

Earlier this week we released the first in our video tutorial series called “Getting Started with Data Journalism”. In that tutorial we looked at using the importHtml command to import data from a Wikipedia page into a Google Sheet. In this, the second part of

Are you keen to learn some data journalism skills but don’t know where to start? Do you want to get up to speed quickly with finding, cleaning, filtering, analysing or visualising data?
Last week we released the first of our tutorial videos on essential skills

There are more than 200 schools in Gauteng that are built partially or fully from asbestos, a construction material banned in South Africa and a known cause of cancer. Of these, 29 of the schools are built entirely of asbestos, and should be replaced according

This is part 2 of an occasional series on useful tools for data journalists. Part 1: Want to be a data journalist? Learn these important tools or see all the other parts in the series here: The Journalism Toolbox
Maps are one of the most popular

For some time now I’ve been working on some ideas around presenting the monthly fluctuation in the petrol price in an easy-to-understand and interactive form. For many people the sudden and seemingly volatile changes in the petrol price inspire thoughts of conspiracy (clearly government is

In the second-half of 2016, and early 2917, South Africa endured one of its worst droughts in close on 30 years. Coming so close on the heels of the previous year’s severe drought it got me thinking. Most of us grow up knowing that South