Are UK library books at risk of being banned?
This week (October 5 to 11) is Banned Books Week UK. It’s a parallel campaign to Banned Books Week in the USA and has been relaunched this year by Index…
More datasets you can use now instead of sending an FOI
I love a Freedom of Information request. I also love not sending an FOI request. As a data journalist, sometimes it's easier to go digging through published data for the…
Predicting the Oscars…with data!
Predicting the winners of the Oscars using data is a something of a tradition (you could, alternatively, watch all the films and come to an informed conclusion of which is…
Four Keys to Effective Data Visualisation
Turning the insights you get from datasets into something you can share with other people - and have them understand what you're on about - is a challenge. And a…
7 datasets you can write about now instead of waiting for your FOI request to come back
So you've had a great idea for a story, but you need more information to stand it up. So is it time for a Freedom of Information request (or several).…
Quick Data Tip: Text list to sortable list
Sometimes I get data requests that sound like they should be easy but turn out to have not much in the way of usable data available. What were the hottest…
Data Journalism for Beginners: The who, what, where, when of data journalism
The key to getting to grips with data journalism is remembering it is just like all other types of journalism... What is the story? In data journalism, the story isn’t…