Society for News Design: The making of the New York Times’s Netflix graphic
Saturday, 23 January 2010, 12:16
How the New York Times built an interactive graphic based on 1.9 million records of video rental queues obtained from Netflix.
Wordblog: Expenses map shows power of underused reporting tool
Friday, 15 May 2009, 12:29
Andrew Grant-Adamson on that map of MPs' expenses that Tony Hirst made with a Guardian dataset: "The power of mapping as a tool for journalists has been woefully under-used in this country, in part because of the difficulty in obtaining data. … Mapping has become on of the most powerful tools for investigative reporters in the US. In the UK it is much harder to obtain databases but there is also a lack of skill in using the techniques."
