Finding stories in data. The pursuit of facts in plain sight.
The lead article in today’s International section of the Guardian is a data investigation into US Food Aid which I worked on as part of my OpenNews Fellowship. Sadly, there is no GitHub repo for this particular data dig. Just under half of the data we looked at are in PDFs. However, there is some code … Continue Reading →
Numerical information is becoming more and more important in news reporting. This is not only due to interactive web abilities (I’ll write another post on this) but because big news is news of scale. For instance, the floods in Pakistan are now being put into context with figures. The number of people suffering from the … Continue Reading →