If you don’t already know, this year brings a fresh new challenge to a journo-coder wannabe who calls herself DataMinerUK. I am a Knight-Mozilla fellow at the Guardian and am looking to learn to code and make news in the open. As such I have moved this blog to a self hosted website: http://datamineruk.com/ where I can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Guardian’
New Year, New Site, New OpenNews!
Posted: January 23, 2012 in My Data JourneyTags: Knight Foundation, Knight-Mozilla, Mozilla, OpenNews, The Guardian
1
What The Guardian learnt from the first Wikileak
Posted: October 21, 2010 in Data Journalism, My Data JourneyTags: data, journalism, The Guardian, Wikileaks
With the next set of WikiLeaks due out soon I thought I’d remind everyone that the first release of the Afghan War Logs highlighted the importance of datajournalism. Here’s a guide the good people at The Guardian made. They are one of the few champions when it comes to datajournalism. Well recommended reading indeed.
Cancer Countdown
Posted: August 9, 2010 in Bad DataTags: bad, cancer, lifestyle, research, The Guardian
For spinning data, ‘Lifestyle’ articles are the worst. I was sorry to see such an article in The Guardian today (09/08/10). The headline: “British breast cancer rates ‘four times higher than eastern Africa’, says report”. The subheading: “World Cancer Research Fund survey cites lifestyle as reason for difference”. This article is taken straight from a [...]
