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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘datajournalism’
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
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Journalism: To Learn, to Teach, to Know
Posted: August 2, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data JourneyTags: Chris Heilmann, datajournalism, datajournalismblog, Evan Hansen, Jesse James Garrett, Mohamed Nanabhay, MozNewsLab, Oliver Reichenstein, ScraperWiki, Shazna Nessa
So I say this is a journey, I say this is an experiment. In that case this blog is my journal/lab book. I am coming up to the end of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab and you’ll read my proposal shortly. Although it wasn’t coding-led, it did highlight the importance of coding for the future of [...]
Opening Data, Opening Minds
Posted: May 6, 2011 in Good Data, Open Data MovementTags: datajournalism, Mirko Lorenz, open data, Open Knowledge Foundation
#opendata from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo. You might be wondering what this short documentary has to do with journalism or even what open data has to do with journalism. No doubt you are aware that journalism has been facing a ‘crisis’ for a while now. Not just because of the recession and shrinking advertisers [...]
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Glasgow
Posted: March 15, 2011 in EventsTags: datajournalism, events, Glasgow, Hacks and Hackers, ScraperWiki
Who? ScraperWiki What? Hacks and Hackers Hack Day When? Friday, 25 March Where? Viewing Theatre, Pacific Quay, Glasgow Why? Just read up on how #hhhCar went on the ScraperWiki blog. There were schools from space and a catering college with a Food Hygiene Standard rating of 2!
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff #hhhCar
Posted: March 10, 2011 in EventsTags: Cardiff, data, datajournalism, events, HacksHackers, ScraperWiki, Wales
Who? ScraperWiki What? A Hacks and Hackers Hack Day – where journalists (hacks) and developers (hackers) spend the day working with data and scraping away to reveal what lies within. When? Friday, 11th March at 09:00 am Where? ATRiuM Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries University of Glamorgan, Adam Street CF24 2FN Cardiff Why? [...]
National Asset Bubbles – All in a day’s data
Posted: March 9, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data Journey, News StoryTags: Brownfield, Channel 4 News, data, datajournalism, Dispatches, National Assets, ScraperWiki, visualization
So far I’ve called myself a data journalist. But then again Paris Hilton calls herself a business woman. From my previous post, you can see my interest growing. But I haven’t really done anything. I am trying to learn the skills. These skills aren’t actually known and neither is the job description. But the best [...]
