https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench

The data journalism platform with built in training
https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench

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The data journalism platform with built in training

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench
• Owner: CJWorkbench
• License: other
• Created: 2016-10-17T17:58:31.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-22T04:11:07.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-24T13:10:38.572Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: data-analysis, data-journalism, data-science, data-visualization, journalism, notebook
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://workbenchdata.com
• Size: 151 MB
• Stars: 302
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 45
• Open Issues: 46
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Spreadsheet, meet automation.

Welcome to Workbench!

Workbench is a platform that helps you make sense of data tables. Code like a pro -- without code.

Features include:

- Steps to download, HTML-scrape, clean, analyze and visualize data.

- Steps to load tables from Google Drive, Twitter and APIs.

- Emailed notifications when data changes.

- An integrated data-journalism training course.

- Undo, so you can't make mistakes -- only experiments.

- Unlimited power, with custom Python and Excel-like formulas.

# Try it

To see what Workbench does, run your [own server](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Deployment).



  




# User Documentation

- [Imagining the data journalism workflow of the future](https://medium.com/@Workbench/seriously-no-more-spreadsheets-imagining-the-data-journalism-workflow-of-the-future-386336e12048)

- [What workbench can do for data](https://medium.com/@Workbench/what-workbench-can-do-for-data-c8534384c978)

- [A different approach to transparent data journalism](https://medium.com/@Workbench/a-different-approach-to-transparent-data-journalism-a019d23595f2)

- [Data journalism made easier, faster, and more collaborative](https://medium.com/@Workbench/data-journalism-made-easier-faster-and-more-collaborative-e33081bf0080)

- Our [knowledge base](http://help.workbenchdata.com/) has detailed instructions for each step

# Contributing

- [Set up a development environment](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Setting-up-a-development-environment).

- [Create your own step](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Creating-A-Module)

Workbench is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 license. You are free to use the code or parts of it in your own applications, [even your own own closed source applications](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/107883/agpl-what-you-can-do-and-wh). If you modify Workbench code or merge it into your own software, you must open-source the modifications.

# Contact us

Always happy to hear from you:

 - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/workbenchdata)

 - [email](mailto:[email protected])

We also welcome issue reports and pull requests :)

# Credits

Workbench started as a project of Columbia Journalism School, made possible

through the generous support of Krishna Bharat and the Knight Foundation.