Just to let you know that the Twitter account @Scrape_No10 which tweets out ministers’, special advisers’ and permanent secretaries’ meetings, gifts and hospitalities is back up and tweeting. You can read the post about its creation here and download all the data the account contains. This account needs more coding maintenance than the @OJCstatements account [...]
Posts Tagged ‘BuzzData’
Coding Update – get the data out there
Posted: August 25, 2011 in Data Journalism, Good Data, My Data JourneyTags: BuzzData, Codecademy, python, ScraperWiki, Twitter
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Top 10 Things for getting Started in Data Journalism
Posted: August 9, 2011 in Data JournalismTags: ArcGIS, BuzzData, data, datajournalism, FlowingData, geocommons, Get the Data, Google refine, HacksHackers, information is beautiful, Many Eyes, MapAList, NICAR, ScraperWiki, Tableau
Although “data journalism” can encompass infographics, interactives, web apps, FOI, databases and a whole host of other numbering, coding, displaying techniques; the road less travelled-by has certain steps, turns and speed bumps. In that sense, here’s a list of things to tick off if you’re interested in going down the data journalism road: Know the [...]
To Scrape or not to Scrape
Posted: June 28, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data Journey, Open Data MovementTags: BuzzData, Momoko Price, Open Knowledge Conference
I’m in Berlin for the Open Knowledge Conference which you’ll be hearing about. For the last few days I’ve found myself with a mixed bunch of open data hackers and some (data) journalists. It’s the first time I’ve been away from the ScraperWiki family and seen coding in the wild. One thing that surprises me [...]
