ABSTRACT
Remember the teacher’s mantra when you took algebra in high school? “Show your work!” That is Andy Boyle’s philosophy, too. Boyle, a former technologist at the Chicago Sun-Times, says journalists should post their data and show readers how they analyzed it. Such transparency fosters trustworthiness, agrees Lynn Walsh of the Trusting News project. This chapter examines a range of options for posting data. They include a Google Sheet, a web page, a formatted table with a search tool and a downloadable file. We discuss how to post data on Github and Microsoft OneDrive, how to embed a dataset in a web page and how to link from your online data to your “nerd box.” The chapter concludes with exercises in which readers format Google Sheets of data and create tables with Infogram, Datawrapper, Flourish, Airtable and other tools.
