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…
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…