Guardian: Datablog: How the Datablog obtained and analysed over 100,000 job vacancies
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How the Guardian obtained and cleaned the 112,179-record Jobcentre vacancies dataset used for today's splash.
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Guardian: Riot theory is relative
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 of scientific method to reporting."
James Cridland: I made the wrong choice with Facebook
"The fact Facebook now posts whenever I read articles by The Guardian is spooky and weird: I don’t want people knowing that stuff, that’s too personal."
Guardian: The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821
"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 uncontroversial today: a list of schools in Manchester and Salford, with how many pupils attended each one and average annual spending. It told us, for the first time, how many pupils received free education - and how many poor children there were in the city. In today's world of Ofsted reports and education department school rankings, this list would not seem unusual. In 1821, it caused a sensation. Leaked to the Guardian by a credible source only identified as 'NH'"
Guardian: Guardian Facebook app: FAQ
"The Guardian Facebook app is a way of reading and sharing Guardian content from within Facebook. If you choose to use the app, then when you follow links to the Guardian's website, you will be shown the content on a Facebook page. This enables you to see what your friends are also reading from the Guardian, and what is proving popular from the site amongst Facebook users. You will also be able to comment and discuss articles within Facebook."
Guardian Government Computing: Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
"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 was criticised by data journalists at the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph for lack of transparency, after the BCE did not provide a more user-friendly single UK map of the new constituency boundaries."
Guardian: Anders Breivik’s manifesto mapped
"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
"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 Institute for Social Research, challenged prevailing assumptions about the cause of the unrest. Prof Phil Meyer, who co-ordinated the Detroit study more than four decades ago, will advise the research into the English riots."
Guardian: Twitter traffic during the riots
"The Guardian has compiled a unique database of more than 2.5m tweets related to the riots, showing that the majority of surging social media traffic occurred after the first verified reports of incidents in an area."
Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.
Guardian: Introducing Guardian Shorts
"Guardian Shorts is a new series of ebooks from the Guardian, providing detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events. The ebooks will demonstrate the best of Guardian journalism, with timelines, data and comment, curated and packaged for a quick, portable read."
Guardian: How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal
Nice antimated timeline of Twitter reactions to the News of the World scandal.
Independent: Stephen Glover: What Mail Online could teach its rivals
"Mail Online is not yet making a profit but it could be making serious money within a few years – a notion which would have seemed far-fetched only 18 months ago. The huge size of its ever-increasing audience is becoming attractive to advertisers. Mail Online tailors its advertising to regular users whose "cookies" it recognises from visits to other Mail group websites. Users are broken down into more than 700 separate categories, and every regular visitor receives different, targeted advertising."
New York Times: Guantánamo Files – A Note to Readers
"The Guantánamo files were part of a huge trove of secret documents leaked last year to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. They were made available to The New York Times by another source on the condition of anonymity. National Public Radio and the British newspaper The Guardian are also producing reports based on the documents."