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…
How to make your first graph in Flourish
Want to start creating your own data visualisations? Flourish is a great (mostly) free tool for turning your datasets into great looking graphs and charts. It's pretty simple to get…
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…