Finding stories in data. The pursuit of facts in plain sight.
Things have been quiet on the blog front and I apologize. What began as a tumultuous year with a big risk on my part has become even more turbulent. Happily with opportunities rather than uncertainties. Trips to Germany and the US have landed in my lap. Both hugely challenging and exciting. I completed the Knight … Continue Reading →
Click on the image to get to the widget. I have scraped three sources of Afghan civilian casualty data; UNAMA, ISAF and ARM. The originals can all be found here. They were obtained by Science correspondent John Bohannon after embedding with military forces in Kabul and Kandahar in October 2010. They are in Excel format. A bad format. … Continue Reading →
The functionality that has set the web world a blaze, created whole industries and churned out billionaires from fiddlers of code is ‘social’. It’s even shaken Google to its core. ‘Social’ has also made news organisations think ‘digital’, however the phoenix that will emerge from the burning embers of the newspaper industry is ‘open’. The … Continue Reading →