Finding stories in data. The pursuit of facts in plain sight.
Don’t use it for what it’s made for, understand its functionality and use that I said this over a year ago when I was first using social media tools to gather, filter and verify news. I’m sure it is one of the reasons The Guardian chose me to be its 2012 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow. And … Continue Reading →
One of the first things you will notice when you begin work at a big, busy, bustling news organisations is process. The many layers, overlaps and intricate weaves. The printing press is an elegant machine made of nuts, bolts and levers. Its processes, boiled down, are quite simple. But they are quite rigid and each … Continue Reading →
Just as facts can be woven in many different ways to produce many different narratives, so data visualisation lends itself to story telling and not just data wrangling. The extra dimension involved in the thing we currently call ‘Data Journalism’, is the fact that there are many different tools with which we weave data into … Continue Reading →