How to find Data
This post is for people who are new to data sourcing, or interested in Data Journalism but unsure of where to begin. First, it is useful to start with an idea, question or hypothesis....
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Strata Summit 2011: The US Government’s Big Data Opportunity [VIDEO]
So the Strata Summit happened last week and blew our data minds with new ideas and incredible speeches from the best people in the data world. One of the highlights we particularly liked was...
Building the future of open data – interview [VIDEO]
Jason Kitcat is the foundation coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. In this interview, he tackles the meaning of “open knowledge”, the role of his organisation and the future of data journalism. What is...
Journalism in the Age of Data: A video report on Data Visualisation a storytelling medium
STANFORD.EU: Geoff McGhee Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to...
#ijf11: the raise of Open Data
source: Joel Gunter from Journalism.co.uk The open data movement, with the US and UK governments to the fore, is putting a vast and unprecedented quantity of republishable public data on the web. This information...
