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How to get started with data journalism

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
  • Post category:Data Journalism
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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
  • Post category:Data Journalism/Freedom of Information
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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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FOI is better than tea and biscuits!

  • Post last modified:July 19, 2024
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The Cardiffian, Cardiff School of Journalism’s hyperlocal website, published a story earlier about Freedom of Information requests to Cardiff Council – nearly 4,000 in the past three years (most of those…

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Read more about the article Wales needs open data! – An open letter

Wales needs open data! – An open letter

  • Post last modified:February 2, 2024
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Open Wales has been lagging a bit recently, but I’m feeling invigorated so it’s time to get it back on track. Sadly I’m yet to come across a how-to for…

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Using FOI as a journalist

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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I make a lot of FOI requests (I counted about 80 in a year), and yes, some of them are just fishing expeditions to get stories (look, it has to…

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