Data for dummies
After spending the past seven months studying data, I’ve learnt at least one important lesson: data journalism doesn’t have to be impossibly hard. While there are plenty of things about data journalism which will...
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Data Visualisation vs. Text
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/03/uk-beaches-rank-map-listed Simon Rogers has mapped data which ranked 754 beaches around Great Britain for the Guardian Data Store. The visualisation uses a satellite map of the UK, onto which Simon has marked every beach...
Data visualisation and Art
Data is often seen to be as far removed from art as can be. A way of obtaining facts, information and statistics, it is technological rather than personal and beautiful. Or is it? Many...
Why Data Journalism is Important
After studying Data Journalism for a year at City University I have come to appreciate the importance of having the skillset to make the most out of numbers and statistics. Many aspiring journalists still...
Data and the London Mayoral elections – let the data help you decide
The Guardian's Data store compiles London data to give an overview of the capital.
Mapping election data for North Wales
This is the data analysis behind how I, Andrew Stuart, did the data for the Daily Post interactive election map for 2012 on the website for the Daily Post, a regional daily newspaper in North...
VISUALISATION ANALYSIS #3
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/mar/26/office-for-national-statistics-health Simon Rogers has published a fantastic interactive graphic for the Guardian Datastore that maps teenage pregnancy rates in England and Wales from 1998 to 2010. The visualisation shows the conception rate of under-eighteen...
Infographic: Your Cell Phone is Killing You
Check out this infographic, on the growth and obsession of mobile phones. Shared with the DJB by Tony Shin (@ohtinytony), one of our blog subscribers, and created by OnlineMastersDegree.com
Visualisation Analysis #2
Simon Rogers has created a visualisation showing death penalty statistics, country by country, for the Guardian Data Blog. http://bit.ly/hdFOpa http://bit.ly/hflX1V The visualisation uses a bubble graph on a map of the world to depict...
Visualisation Analysis #1
Following on from my earlier post exploring different ways to present data, I have decided to analyse two examples of visualisations from the Guardian Data Store. http://bit.ly/HsqsLf The first is a map of UK fuel...
