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Nato operations in Libya: data journalism breaks down which country does what
THE GUARDIAN – By Simon Rogers How much is each Nato country contributing to operations in Libya? Here’s the most comprehensive analysis yet of who is doing what • Get the data Nato operations in...
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HELP ME INVESTIGATE – By Paul Bradshaw A frequent obstacle in data journalism is when the information you want to analyse is locked away in a PDF. Here are 6 ways to tackle that problem – with space...
View ArticleData journalism – is it worth it?
IN PUBLISHING – By Paul Bradshaw Whether it is the desire to replicate the enormous sales successes of the MPs’ expenses and WikiLeaks revelations, or publishers wanting to expand into selling data...
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Winners of myNewsBiz competition to launch data journalism training business
JOURNALISM.CO.UK – By Sarah Marshall Ben Whitelaw and Nick Petrie have won £1,000 to launch a business to teach journalists skills in data journalism. Whitelaw and Petrie, both part of the Wannabe...
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Dating with data
O’REILLY RADAR – By Ciara Byrne OkCupid is a free dating site with seven million users. The site’s blog, OkTrends, mines data from those users to tackle important subjects like “The case for an...
View ArticleOKCon 2011: Introduction and a Look to the Future
OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION – By Rufus Pollock This is a blog post by Rufus Pollock, co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation. OKCon, the annual Open Knowledge Conference kicked off today...
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ProPublica’s newest news app uses education data to get more social
NIEMANLAB – By Megan Garber Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights released a data set— the most comprehensive to date — documenting student access to advanced classes and...
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Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack
O’REILLY RADAR – By Alex Howard New York Times 365/360 - 1984 (in color) By blprnt_van MIT’s recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal...
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Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics
EAGEREYES – By Robert Kosara Visual.ly‘s launch today made big waves, but a lot of people seemed to be disappointed by what they saw. The problem is that what you can see on the website is not the...
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Phone hacking resignation statements: visualised and listed
THE GUARDIAN DATA STORE – By Simon Rogers Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks, LesHinton, Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and now John Yates – see what their resignation statements had in common • Get...
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