Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 14:22
Matt Waite on the trouble with finding budding journalist-developers: “I think the problem with finding these students starts with reward structures. Students are told from even before they walk on campus that being a journalist means Being a Good Writ…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC responds to CSG industry complaint – Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:07
“The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) lodged an official complaint about the ABC’s website, Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers. Following is the ABC’s public response to that complaint. …”
Sydney Morning Herald: New form of journalism must adhere to old rules
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 16:27
Pollster Mark Textor: “Too often, data journalists suddenly pretend to be experts. But a journalist is a not a mathematician or statistician. With data journalism that is exactly what they pretend to be. They imagine they are something way beyond the p…
Guardian: Riot theory is relative
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 14:52
Philip Meyer: “After personal computers with user-friendly software became common, using a computer wasn’t such a big deal. But the term CAR, for computer-assisted reporting, is still used today to describe what I prefer to think of as the application …
Financial Times: Statistics chief’s warning over misuse of figures
Friday, 9 December 2011, 10:51
“Ministers, officials and journalists need to be on their guard when misusing statistics after [Andrew Dilnot,] the new chairman of the UK Statistics Authority warned he would name and shame offenders. … Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, he cited a calcula…
dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:19
Jens Finnäs: “Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this m…
currybetdotnet: “Hacking the rendition flights” – Stephen Grey at Hacks/Hackers London
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 11:49
“[The] problem wasn’t so much collecting the data in order to analyse it, but getting the data cleaned up and into a format that made it ready to be analysed. He also made the point that you should pick your story and then get the data to support it,…
OUseful: Data Referenced Journalism and the Media – Still a Long Way to Go Yet?
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:22
Tony Hirst: “we need data press officers as well as data journalists. Their job would be to put together the tools that support the data churnalist in taking the raw data and producing statistical charts and interpretation from it. Just like the minist…
ActionAid UK: FTSE 100 tax haven tracker: the data
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 22:03
“When enquiries to individual companies failed to persuade them to disclose the information, we submitted complaints to Companies House, forcing companies to re-file their annual returns with the information included, and sparking Vince Cable to announ…
CountCulture: PlanningAlerts is dead, long-live PlanningAlerts
Monday, 10 October 2011, 22:47
Great news of the revival of one of the best local data projects: “[we] are now hard at work building PlanningAlerts into OpenlyLocal”
Data Driven Journalism: The importance of numeracy for data journalists
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 09:43
Nicolas Kayser-Bril: “We need to convince journalism schools to teach math in a purpose-oriented fashion. As Gigerenzer said in a 2010 conference, students are taught trigonometry but how to understand risks proper…
Guardian: The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821
Monday, 26 September 2011, 12:49
"Data journalism is not new: the very first Guardian – or Manchester Guardian as it then was – in May 1821 contained a table of data. For the first time, we've extracted that table so you can see it for yourselves. … The data would seem unc…
Guardian Government Computing: Scottish Boundary Commission to publish shapefiles of constituency boundaries
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:15
"The Boundary Commission for Scotland (BCS) has said it will publish shapefiles of its initial proposals for constituencies after the Boundary Commission for England (BCE) was criticised for not doing so."
Guardian Government Computing: Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:32
"The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 pdf maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail". … The decision w…
