Finding stories in data. The pursuit of facts in plain sight.
There has been some noise on the web in regards to learning to code. Jeff Atwood declared: “Please Don’t Learn To Code” in response to the New York City Mayor‘s tweet that he was joining in Codecademy’s Code Year. My favourite web-based programming mentor, Zed Shaw, retorted with “Please Don’t Become Anything, Especially Not A … Continue Reading →
The web has two faces. One it shows to programmers, the other to us mere mortals. As a source, the face it shows to programmers is so much more revealing. In this way, I’m trying first to understand the language of the web before I can scrape it. Now scraping is a lot harder than … Continue Reading →
I have gone dark on the data journalism front and I apologize. It’s just that work that actually pays me has picked up! But I have not dropped the baton and indeed, my latest finding have reignited my flame for all things data driven. So please do join me on my data journey. I am … Continue Reading →