If you follow Scrape_No10 on twitter you will be receiving all the meetings, gifts and hospitalities received at No.10 by ministers, special advisers and permanent secretaries. If you follow #Scrape10 then you should be getting those as well as all the tweets relating to any item of data. The current database should be tweeted out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘No. 10’
Scrape No.10
Posted: May 26, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data Journey, News StoryTags: Cabinet Office, Government, No. 10, ScraperWiki, Twitter
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Cabinet Office Spending Data Liberated
Posted: May 17, 2011 in Data Journalism, Good Data, My Data JourneyTags: Cabinet Office, data, Google refine, No. 10, ScraperWiki, Spending
Seeing as I like to fly in the face of tradition, I’m going to turn things on it’s head and write a blog post of how I did it before I publish what “it” actually is. That is, I have scraped all the Cabinet Office spending data, cleaned it up and extracted it. But before [...]
Special Treatment for Special Advisers in No. 10
Posted: April 5, 2011 in Data Journalism, Good Data, My Data Journey, News StoryTags: Andy Coulson, gifts and hospitality, Google refine, media, No. 10, Rupert Murdoch, scraper, Special advisers
The road to No.10 is paved with advisers, they lead you in, they open doors. Often for themselves. Previous advisers include Alastair Campbell, Ed Balls and the Miliband brothers. Until they’re in the door they generally don’t command the political spotlight. That is, unless they’re on the way out like Andy Coulson. What they do [...]
