Just to let you know that the Twitter account @Scrape_No10 which tweets out ministers’, special advisers’ and permanent secretaries’ meetings, gifts and hospitalities is back up and tweeting. You can read the post about its creation here and download all the data the account contains. This account needs more coding maintenance than the @OJCstatements account [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Coding Update – get the data out there
Posted: August 25, 2011 in Data Journalism, Good Data, My Data JourneyTags: BuzzData, Codecademy, python, ScraperWiki, Twitter
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Judges Under the Hammer
Posted: July 8, 2011 in Good Data, My Data JourneyTags: judges, law, Office for Judicial Complaints, OJC, ScraperWiki, Twitter
Data is the new word for information. But Information Journalist implies every other journalist is just a churnalist. Which is most definitely not the case. If data is anything in a database then I’m looking beyond that. For me data is any piece of information that can be turned to journalistic use. So rather than [...]
Scrape No.10
Posted: May 26, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data Journey, News StoryTags: Cabinet Office, Government, No. 10, ScraperWiki, Twitter
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 [...]
