Data – it might not mean what you think it means
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…
Open Data Wales – it’s going to take a while
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…
Why data journalism will go mainstream
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…
The Great Thing about Data Journalism
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…
The Problem with Data Journalism…Time
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…
Dodgy Statistics…now with added victim blaming
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…
By escalating, you mean falling, right?
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…