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Read more about the article Data – it might not mean what you think it means

Data – it might not mean what you think it means

  • Post last modified:October 22, 2024
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It certainly didn’t when it came to the £32 bread. That was actually 11 loaves and cost £2.82. The lesson from this is if it sound ridiculous, it probably is…

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Read more about the article Open Data Wales – it’s going to take a while

Open Data Wales – it’s going to take a while

  • Post last modified:January 5, 2024
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So on Thursday, the UK Government announced plans to release more data on schools, hospitals, crime and transport (then the closure of the News of the World was announced, which…

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Why data journalism will go mainstream

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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Reading through the Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday before last and there was an article about the inquiry into Stafford Hospital and the failings there. Interestingly at the end of the…

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The Great Thing about Data Journalism

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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When it works well it works really well. This is a sort of companion piece to me complaining about how data journalism takes forever (ok, slight exaggeration). Sometimes its very quick and…

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The Problem with Data Journalism…Time

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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As in not enough of it. Big datasets take time to go through and understand and find the stories in. Not easy when you have to write a lead on…

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Dodgy Statistics…now with added victim blaming

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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Not to go on about it, not that that ever stopped the Daily Mail…but we’re back with another round of violent girls, that’s the real problem in society today. Harriet Sergeant  seems…

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By escalating, you mean falling, right?

  • Post last modified:January 6, 2024
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Apparently violence by teenage girls is out of control in England and Wales – except it isn’t. The Daily Mail is having one of its periodic rages about how teenage girls are…

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