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Making data accessible: interview with Nick Scott from import.io

May

2013

Big data. We’ve been hearing it all too often as of late. The world is coming to realise that the amount of information spread across the web could lead to innovation after innovation. But how do we find it and how do we harness it? One London startup can answer that for some users. Import.io ...

Who did it best? Data coverage of the 2013 local elections 2

May

2013

Yesterday the final results were in for Thursday’s 2013 council elections, and true to form some of the biggest media publications were not content with simply stating by numbers which councils had won or lost seats (à la the less than inspiring Independent and Spectator’s election results run-downs). Ignoring paywalled websites and those who simply ...

Infographic: battle of the social sexes

Apr

2013

We all hear that certain social networks get dominated by a particular sex (think Pinterest or Instagram for women) but the folks at InternetServiceProviders.org have made an infographic illustrating all the data. It seems mostly U.S. focused but provides some enlightening information such as the 70% female user base on Pinterest. Also useful are the stats about men ...

Data Journalism Awards 2013 Shortlist Released

Apr

2013

I blogged earlier in the year on the 2013 Data Journalism Awards and promised to keep you posted, and can now reveal that the shortlist has been announced. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, The Global Editors Network announced their 72 finalists, with the shortlisted candidates representing 19 different countries, including Argentina, Austria, ...

Florida newspaper wins Pulitzer for data journalism

Apr

2013

Growing up in South Florida, there weren’t many professional outlets available for aspiring journalists. If you lived in Broward or Palm Beach counties, your allegiance was to the Sun-Sentinel, and if you grew up in Miami-Dade, you “worked” for the Miami Herald. My two years writing for the Sun-Sentinel as a teenager were some of ...

Eastern Europe and Latin America hit the spotlight in FOIs, but media still makes the UK influential

Apr

2013

Countries that had dictators in power until very recently are now prominent when it comes to new Freedom of Information Acts. The UK system trusts heavily on the press to work. This is the opinion of Fabiano Angelico, a specialist on transparency and a Guardian contributor. As a master in Public Administration, researcher and journalist, he ...

Data shows why Barcelona might have trouble with PSG now Messi is injured

Apr

2013

Last night Barcelona against drew PSG in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-finals clash. Scoring two goals in Paris set up the Catalan giants for a spot in the semifinals. But not all was good news for them: Lionel Messi, the best player in the world, will miss the decider because of an ...

What is the point of having 100 international billionaires without a world map?

Apr

2013

A few weeks ago Forbes published in their website a list of the 100 top billionaires on the planet. They published graphs of these people’s net worth over time, a lot of background information and could even link every one of them to other important billionaires, in a way that it is clear to the ...

Twitter’s real face

Feb

2013

Looking like the sort of fake futuristic technology you’d see in an episode of 24, Tweetping, a stunning new visualisation from French designer Franck Ernewein, highlights the exact location of every tweet on the planet with a bright blue pixel. In real time. At the bottom of the window, underneath the rapidly changing map, you ...

Deaths from mass shootings vs deaths from homegrown terror plots- a look at the figures

Feb

2013

It’s a simple visualisation, but I wanted to make sure I got it up as quickly as possible. The Triangle Center for Terrorism and Homeland Security in North Carolina issued a report, “Muslim-American Terrorism: Declining Further”, which, as you might guess, states that homegrown terror plots with Muslim-American suspects are declining. Just 14 Muslim-Americans were ...

The Economist data book makes me believe in love at first sight 1

Jan

2013

It was a rainy afternoon I gazed sadly into the bookshelves of Waterstone’s for hours and hours. My ex-girlfriend was a few meters away, reminding me of how tough love can be. I just wanted to go home and drink as much Cherry Coke as I could (I don’t have drinking habits, sorry for that). ...

Social media news in brief

Nov

2012

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Interview: Aine McGuire of ScraperWiki

Nov

2012

In a world of numbers and computers, of social media and online communities, it’s easy to assume that journalism isn’t what it used to be. The digital age has ushered in all these clever new tools that must mean the sleuthy skills of inky-fingered hacks are out-dated, right? Not so, says Aine McGuire, chief marketing ...

Dropping the data ball

Nov

2012

I write this blog as the last refugee from City’s newspaper journalism course. Unlike some of the more eloquent members of the Interhacktives, I am not particularly passionate about data, numbers, mathematics, Opinsy, technology, or basically anything quantitative. However, I did catch on during the induction week that the skills we are to be taught ...