How to comment online (without being a jerk)
I recently finished a couple weeks’ worth of shifts at The Times, working on the
Year: 2014
Facebook alternatives: The Smart Social Networker’s Guide
Throughout most of its ten-year history, people have been threatening to leave Facebook. There are
Interview: Dr James Cheshire on the problem with “clickbait” data journalism
“I think there’s a lot of infographics out there that are really a bit rubbish.”
6 tools to help you get started with programming
So you want to get started with coding, but don’t know where to start. It
I Wrote a Tweet: What Big Numbers Can Do To You
I wrote a tweet. I say ‘wrote’. There were no words, just four images. The
Here’s how to live tweet protests if you want to get all the followers
Get retweets, get paid. Tweet differently. Everyone else is tweeting where the march is, where
The best places to get your data
Best places to get your data For many beginners getting into data and what are
6 sites that show why data is beta
New to data journalism and keen to learn but unsure about the kind of stories you could
What’s on Reddit’s front page?
We go behind data scraped from the front page of Reddit – what does it tell us about the online super-community?
Interview with Abraham Thomas, co-founder and head of data at Quandl
We sit down with Quandl’s co-founder and head of data Abraham Thomas about his project.
Interview with data visualiser Ri Liu
We speak to Ri Liu about the importance of design in telling interactive stories.
How To… Visualise the ‘Healthy Life Expectancy’ Disparity
A quick and hopefully not too depressing look at the disparity between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the EU.
Simon Rogers interview: ‘Who cares if I’m still a journalist?’
Interhacktives sat down with Simon Rogers, a veritable giant of data journalism who founded the Guardian’s Datablog before moving over to Twitter to manage the site’s vast quantities of data.
Pop Culture and Data: The Best Visualisations
Here are some of our favourite pop-culture data visualisations from the past year, to illustrate how versatile data visualisations can be.
Interview with FiveThirtyEight’s Walter Hickey
Walter Hickey is part of the data super-group working on the re-launched FiveThirtyEight. Joe Hall asks if it’s really possible to use numbers to explore our favourite films and restaurants.
Carl Bialik interview: ‘Any data set has eureka potential’
We spoke with Carl Bialik, a writer for Nate Silver‘s new website FiveThirtyEight, and formerly The Numbers Guy for WSJ.
Interview with Kiln’s Duncan Clark
Duncan Clark, founder of design studio Kiln, tells Aleksandra Wisniewska how they go about their projects
PMQs liveblog
Read our live blog of PMQs on 30 April 2014. It was a barnstorming session, featuring the Speaker at his wittiest.
Interview with import.io’s Beatrice Schofield
Beatrice Schofield, Head of Data Intelligence at import.io talks to Interhacktives’ Aleksandra Wisniewska and debunks the data science myth.
Interview with Tim Sabat, founding member of CodePen
Set up by Tim Sabat, Chris Coyier and Alex Quez in 2012 as a coding