Recommended books for journalists who would like to do data journalism:

1. Scraping for Journalists by Paul Bradshaw
2. Data Journalism Heist by Paul Bradshaw

Open Data Resources:

1. CKAN
2. Open Knowledge Foundation
3. Open Data Institute
4. Knight Foundation
5. Sunlight Foundation
6. U.S. government’s open data portal: Contains about 85,000 searchable data sets.

Tools recommended:

1. Quandl
2. Raw