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…
Data Journalism for Beginners: Six options for getting data out of a PDF and into a spreadsheet
PDFs are the never-ending bane of a data journalist's existence. Unfortunately, public bodies really love sending data as PDFs. https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1504142701213671430 As this is the case, you will often need to…
Why Labour’s smear test attack on the coalition just doesn’t stand up
The coalition is failing women, the number who are overdue smear tests has soared 11% since they came to power, possibly due to the difficulty getting GP appointments. When working…
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.…
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…
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…