# cjworkbench

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Financial-Times/cjworkbench

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: cjworkbench
- **Description**: The data journalism platform with built in training
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: AGPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-22

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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#  Spreadsheet, meet automation.

Welcome to Workbench!

- Our [public server](http://workbenchdata.com), now in beta.

Workbench is a platform that combines data tools and training for journalists. It is a workbook-style data processing system designed around modular tools for data processing -- table in, table out -- with no code required. Features include:

- Modules to scrape, clean, analyze and visualize data
- An integrated data journalism training program
- Connect to Google Drive, Twitter, and API endpoints.
- Every action is recorded, so all workflows are repeatable and transparent
- All data is live and versioned, and you can monitor for changes.
- Write custom modules in Python and add them to the module library

# Try it

To see what Workbench does, try our [public server](http://workbenchdata.com), now in beta. Or run your [own server](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Deployment).

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# 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 module

# Contributing

- How to [set up a development environment](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Setting-up-a-development-environment).
- [Creating your own modules](https://github.com/CJWorkbench/cjworkbench/wiki/Creating-A-Module)
- [Join us on gitter](https://gitter.im/workbenchdata/Lobby)!

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), but 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:hello@workbenchdata.com)

 We also accept Pull Requests :)

# Credits
Workbench is a project of Columbia Journalism School, made possible through the generous support of Krishna Bharat and the Knight Foundation.