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 ‘geocommons’
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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Open Data Master Class
Posted: November 18, 2010 in Data Journalism, Events, My Data Journey, Open Data MovementTags: Centre for Geospatial Science, event. Horizon Digital Economy Research, geocommons, Gov 2.0, maps, open data, spatial analysis
I’ll be at this event all day tomorrow so expect your weekly diet of data, journalism and Gov 2.0. Here’s the blurb: “The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central and local government data for free. The Prime Minister launched the data.gov.uk portal to ‘open up [...]
