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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Journalist versus Programmer

This post is for December’s Carnival of Journalism where we were asked to write what would be the best present from programmers/journalists that Santa Claus could leave under your Christmas tree? Stick people courtesy of xkcd. My  Christmas wish from both programmers and journalists would be the realisation that both cultures are dependent on the goodwill and … Continue Reading →

December 9, 2011 Carnival of Journalism, journalism, programming

Noise to Signal – Coding your own newswire

Seeing as tomorrow is Open Data Day and I claim to be a Data Journalist (I think JournoCoder is more suitable) here’s a little data food for journalistic thought. Here is the site showing the US nuclear reactors power output status. Here is the scraper for that site written by ScraperWiki founder Julian Todd. Here … Continue Reading →

December 2, 2011 data journalism, open data, ScraperWiki

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