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?
Month: May 2014
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