Scraping data from a list of webpages using Google Docs
OJB – By Paul Bradshaw Quite often when you’re looking for data as part of a story, that data will not be on a single page, but on a series of pages. To manually copy...
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Dutch regional newspapers launch data journalism project RegioHack
In a guest post for OJB, Jerry Vermanen explains the background to RegioHack The internet is bursting with information, but journalists – at least in The Netherlands – don’t get the full potential out of it....
6 ways of communicating data journalism (The inverted pyramid of data journalism part 2)
OJB – By Paul Bradshaw Last week I published an inverted pyramid of data journalism which attempted to map processes from initial compilation of data through cleaning, contextualising, and combining that. The final stage – communication...
Data journalism – is it worth it?
IN PUBLISHING – By Paul Bradshaw Whether it is the desire to replicate the enormous sales successes of the MPs’ expenses and WikiLeaks revelations, or publishers wanting to expand into selling data services, it...
7 ways to get data out of PDFs
HELP ME INVESTIGATE – By Paul Bradshaw A frequent obstacle in data journalism is when the information you want to analyse is locked away in a PDF. Here are 6 ways to tackle that problem...
