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…
Wales needs open data! – An open letter
Open Wales has been lagging a bit recently, but I’m feeling invigorated so it’s time to get it back on track. Sadly I’m yet to come across a how-to for…
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…
Open Wales – An Update
Firstly, I’ve been a bit quiet recently due to a very messy house move (see Twitter for much whinging) and a few weeks without home internet (see Twitter for yet more whinging).…
Open Wales
The campaign for more open data in Wales starts…well here and now unless someone else is already on it…anybody? Anyway, I was reading a blog post about how a campaign was…
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…