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 …
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…
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."
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…
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 …
The Cutline: NY Times considers creating an ‘EZ Pass lane for leakers’
Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 12:19
"The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper."
FleetStreetBlues: The truth about ‘data journalism’: it’s still about the story, stupid
Monday, 22 November 2010, 15:21
"[A]midst all [the 'data journalism'] hype, earnestness and spreadsheet-geekery, here's the truth about so-called 'data journalism'. It's still about the story, stupid. … [S]urely what's shocking is how few stories journalists actually managed to uncover [from recent major data dumps] … No doubt we'll get better at this. Over time, journalists will learn how to pick out the stories that matter from these huge data releases – and it will help hugely whenever a single news outlet has control of the data, as the Telegraph did with MPs' expenses, so that they can drip-feed the top lines one at a time rather than see the whole lot drown in the 24-hour news cycle."
Guardian: Journalists of the future need data skills, says Berners-Lee
Friday, 19 November 2010, 16:00
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: "the responsibility needs to be with the press. Journalists need to be data-savvy. These are the people whose jobs are to interpret what government is doing to the people. So it used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you'll do it that way some times. But now it's also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what's interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what's going on in the country."
Guardian: Wikileaks’ Afghanistan war logs: how our datajournalism operation worked
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 13:05
"The data came to us as a huge excel file – over 92,201 rows of data, some with nothing in at all or were the result of poor formatting. Anything over 60,000 rows or so brings excel down in dramatic fashion – saving takes a painfully long period of time (tip number one – turn automatic saving off in preferences…). It doesn't help reporters trying to trawl through the data for stories and it's too big to run meaningful reports on. Fortunately, after COINS, huge datasets hold no fear for us. …"
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.
Talking Points Memo: Internal AP Memo Thanks Writers For Successful ‘Literary Treasure Hunt’ In Finding Sarah Palin’s Book
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 07:30
AP memo on how reporters who found an accidentally pre-released copy of Sarah Palin's book produced a story in 40 minutes: "They bought a copy, ripped it from its spine and scanned it into the system so it could be read and electronically searched. A NewsNow moved within 40 minutes, followed quickly by multiple leads as details were gleaned from the 413-page manuscript."
