Preface
For the Great Unnamed
The Data Journalism Handbook was born at a 48 hour workshop led by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism’s leading advocates and best practitioners.

Figure 1. How it all began
In the six months that passed between the book’s inception to its first full release, hundreds of people have contributed in various ways. While we have done our best to keep track of them all, we have had our fair share of anonymous, pseudonymous, and untraceable edits.
To all of those people who have contributed and are not listed below, we say two things. Firstly, thank you. Secondly, can you please tell us who you are so that we can give credit where credit is due?
Contributors
The following people have drafted or otherwise directly contributed to text in the current version of the book (and illustrations are by graphic designer Kate Hudson):
- Gregor Aisch, Open Knowledge Foundation
- Brigitte Alfter, Journalismfund.eu
- David Anderton, Freelance Journalist
- James Ball, the Guardian
- Caelainn Barr, Citywire
- Mariana Berruezo, Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
- Michael Blastland, Freelance Journalist
- Mariano Blejman, Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
- John Bones, Verdens Gang
- Marianne Bouchart, Bloomberg News
- Liliana Bounegru, European ...