Finding stories in data. The pursuit of facts in plain sight.
I gave a talk at News Rewired which with some slight technical hiccups and a tight time frame, I spoke too fast to be coherent. But thanks to the power of Twitter (and the people who go to conferences just to tweet about them!) I’ve realized that there was a huge interest in what I … Continue Reading →
If you follow Scrape_No10 on twitter you will be receiving all the meetings, gifts and hospitalities received at No.10 by ministers, special advisers and permanent secretaries. If you follow #Scrape10 then you should be getting those as well as all the tweets relating to any item of data. The current database should be tweeted out … Continue Reading →
I thought I should publish this video from Data Harvest Meeting 2011. It’s a simple interview made powerful by good filming technique. ‘Data harvesting’ is an interesting term, it implies a chain: seeding, cultivating and processing. There’s this idea of investment as well as time and space. The landscape is still very unknown and the … Continue Reading →
Who? Hacks/Hackers London What? Journalists call themselves “hacks,” someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. When? Wednesday, 25th May 2011 at 07:00 pm Where? The Shooting Star 125-129 Middlesex St London E1 7JF Why? … Continue Reading →
Seeing as I like to fly in the face of tradition, I’m going to turn things on it’s head and write a blog post of how I did it before I publish what “it” actually is. That is, I have scraped all the Cabinet Office spending data, cleaned it up and extracted it. But before … Continue Reading →
Who? The Centre for Investigative Journalism - advances education for, and public understanding of, investigative journalism, critical inquiry, and in-depth reporting and research What? Summer School – a three day event with talks and practicals running in parallel so you’ll always find something to interest you. Book here. When? 15th – 17th July 2011, starting each day … Continue Reading →
#opendata from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo. #opendata from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo. You might be wondering what this short documentary has to do with journalism or even what open data has to do with journalism. No doubt you are aware that journalism has been facing a ‘crisis’ for a while now. Not just … Continue Reading →
And here’s what Tim Berner-Lee, founder of the internet, said regarding the subject of data journalism: Journalists need to be data-savvy… [it's] going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what’s interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it … Continue Reading →