A data journalism toolkit for all

AP DataKit is free and available to anyone to use.

It answers a significant need in the data journalism community, allowing journalists to automate important yet laborious tasks in data projects.

“DataKit has transformed the way AP’s data team works,” said Troy Thibodeaux, AP data science and news applications editor. “It lets us focus on the journalism and spend less time on rote tasks.”

He added: “We don’t have to keep making the same mundane decisions with every project – where things should go and what they should be called, how we store the data and manage the code – instead we focus on what’s unique to the story and data set at hand. It has also created a platform for seamless collaboration. Any data team member can hop into a project and feel at home; we know where everything belongs and can get to work bulletproofing the analysis.”