Noise to Signal – Coding your own newswire

Seeing as tomorrow is Open Data Day and I claim to be a Data Journalist (I think JournoCoder is more suitable) here’s a little data food for journalistic thought. Here is the site showing the US nuclear reactors power output status. Here is the scraper for that site written by ScraperWiki founder Julian Todd. Here [...]

Introducing MoJoNewsBot – helping build a social, data driven, virtual newsroom

Things have been quiet on the blog front and I apologize. What began as a tumultuous year with a big risk on my part has become even more turbulent. Happily with opportunities rather than uncertainties. Trips to Germany and the US have landed in my lap. Both hugely challenging and exciting. I completed the Knight [...]

Why Data Needs Journalism and Journalism Needs Data

I’ve come specifically to the Open Knowledge Conference for the track on data journalism (although I’m very interested in the open data scene anyway). It was a call to action more than an educational exposition. Data journalism doesn’t have a set path nor definition which is why there’s a lot of journalism falling under the [...]

Data Journalism: The Story So Far

And here’s what Tim Berner-Lee, founder of the internet, said regarding the subject of data journalism: Journalists need to be data-savvy… [it's] going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what’s interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it [...]

D (ata) + J (ournalism) + Camp 2011 = #djcamp2011

Who? Digital Editors Network What? A two-day workshop for those who value turning data into stories with impact. Sign up here. When? Thursday, 19 May at 9:30 AM - Friday, 20 May at 5:00 PM Where? 100 Broadway Media City M502UW Salford Manchester Why? Because you’ll learn: Collaboration tools for the newsroom team Customizing search-and-retrieve data tools Extracting [...]

The First Data Journalism Course I’ve Found

Actually being called Data Journalism that is. Who? It’s from Journalism.co.uk and is headed by Kevin Anderson who I see at most of the events I attend. What? An introduction to data journalism: Taming the numbers When? Wednesday, 19th January at 10:00 am Where? Royal Society of Medicine 1 Wimpole Street London W1G 0AE Why? Says [...]

Changing Visual Paradigms

Words are data also and this video by Sir Ken Robinson shows how animation can make real time visuals for stories which are information rich and picture poor. I really love this. Graphics, to a certain extent, makes the story more understandable and much more entertaining. And for all those interested in the topic of [...]