Is one of your journalism resolutions this year to put in more Freedom of Information requests but not really sure where to start? David Higgerson’s blog has a FOI Friday feature, collecting together stories from local and regional newspapers that have … Continue reading →

My poor blog has been looking rather neglected. I haven’t really posted much for most of 2012, I’m hoping to change that a bit in 2013. The second half of the year rather got away from me and I didn’t … Continue reading →

Have completely failed to add a tutorial for making heat maps using Google Fusion Tables. To make this work, you have to first collect up some shapefiles – you can download them from open data sites, often as a KML, … Continue reading →

I’m slowly catching up with reading and blogging again – seriously, stop paying attention for five minutes and you end up buried in interesting things. Among the things I’ve finally caught up on is the MEN’s excellent Crime down your … Continue reading →

In the first part of basic mapping, everything went on the map nice and easily, in real life this pretty much never happens (x10 for every hour nearer to deadline you get). The most consistent way to get things in … Continue reading →

Having posted recently about ways to combine Google Fusion maps or add basic postcode search (I’m going to revisit this one soon) I kind of forgot to write a post covering the basics. I’m pretty convinced that people mainly care … Continue reading →

Since my minor success with combining Google Fusion maps, I’ve been trying out a few more things. Firstly postcode search. I really want to crack this one (it ties into my idea that most newspaper readers are most interested in … Continue reading →

…or how I made the Welsh boundary changes map. Click for interactive version I knew the announcement was due and that we would need a way to display it. And got to thinking about whether there was a way to … Continue reading →

Data Journalism Montreal Gazette’s Data Blog  Data journalism: Resources to help reporters get started collecting and analyzing data Helsingin Sanomat provides guidelines to journalists on use of open data Data Driven Journalism: The Series Begins… 25 great links for data lovin’ … Continue reading →