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 …
The Other Sociologist: “69 Billion Friendships” on Facebook – How Sociology Can Make This Meaningful
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 17:23
“Facebook’s research tells us about the links between a large sub-group of humanity – but it doesn’t say anything about what these connections mean.”
Guardian: Anders Breivik’s manifesto mapped
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 18:30
"The man behind the Norway bombings and shootings wrote a link-filled manifesto. To show the vast spread of websites he cites, and how they linked to each other, we turned to French visualisers Linkfluence."
Guardian: Reading the Riots study to examine causes and effects of August unrest
Monday, 5 September 2011, 15:17
"Reading the Riots is modelled on an acclaimed survey conducted in the aftermath of the Detroit riots in 1967. The findings of that study, the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Detroit Free Press newspaper and Michigan's In…
Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 17:32
Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.
Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 17:32
Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.
WSJ.com: WSJ Jet Tracker
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 11:58
"The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under …
On The Media: Transcript of "Data Journalism"
Monday, 16 May 2011, 07:37
"Texas Tribune reporter Matt Stiles and Duke University computational journalism professor Sarah Cohen explain how they find good stories in a sea of government data."
SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 22:04
"Keith Urbahn wasn’t the first to speculate Bin Laden’s death, but he was the one who gained the most trust from the network. Why did this happen? … In this study we looked at 14.8 million tweets and bitly links with the goal of reaching an …
Financial Times careers: Investigations and Special Project Editor
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:40
Deadlines is 11 May: "He or she will have a strong background in investigative work, and Pulitzer-sized ambition. A strong background in computer-assisted and database reporting, a proven track record at some of the world's biggest news organ…
New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:31
"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."
Online Journalism Blog: Getting full addresses for data from an FOI response (using APIs)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:47
How to use the Google Maps API and Google Refine to geocode and improve partial addresses in a dataset.
SCMP.com: Who Runs HK
Monday, 28 February 2011, 14:43
"WhoRunsHK is an interactive database of a select group of leaders in Hong Kong and their connections. It is based on publicly available documents and is not comprehensive. It will be expanded over time."
Scraperwiki Data Blog: Read all about it read all about it: “ScraperWiki gets on the Guardian front page…”
Friday, 25 February 2011, 17:55
"James Ball’s [Guardian] story [on lobbyist influence in the UK Parliament] is helped and supported by a ScraperWiki script that took data from registers across parliament that is located on different servers and aggregates them into one source …
