Data journalism – necessity is the mother of invention
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.…
How to get started with data journalism
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…
Behind the scenes on an award winning story
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…
Data journalism as the answer to the story drought
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…
Journo Resolutions 2012
As it’s the third day of the New Year, now’s as good a time as any for some resolutions for the new year. Learn Last year, I learnt a lot…
Huge list of data journalism resources
Data Journalism Montreal Gazette’s Data Blog Data journalism: Resources to help reporters get started collecting and analyzing data Helsingin Sanomat provides guidelines to journalists on use of open data Data Driven…
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…