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FOI and Datasets

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
  • Post category:Data Journalism/Freedom of Information
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Request Initiative, not-for-profit community interest company that helps charities, NGOs non-profits make use of FOI, is blogging top tips for using the FOI act. This week’s topic, looking at asking for…

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Data journalism – necessity is the mother of invention

  • Post last modified:January 5, 2024
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One of the things I like about data journalism (despite being very frustrating at times) is that it is very often an exercise in problem solving;  it makes me think.…

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Data journalism – necessity is the mother of invention

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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One of the things I like about data journalism (despite being very frustrating at times) is that it is very often an exercise in problem solving;  it makes me think.…

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How to get started with data journalism

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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Well, it’s finally here. I’ve published my book Getting Started with Data Journalism. It is a comprehensive look at techniques for finding, cleaning, analysing and visualising data and hopefully help at…

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Behind the scenes on an award winning story

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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So this time last week, I was getting ready to catch a very early flight to Paris ahead of the Data Journalism Awards. My story looking at where social services in Wales…

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A Great Big List of FOI Ideas

  • Post last modified:May 30, 2024
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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…

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Data journalism as the answer to the story drought

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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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…

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