Measuring Facebook’s reach
It seems you can’t leave the house (or, indeed, stay in the house) without fear of hearing something about Facebook these days. With the ongoing public offering, the ‘is it worth $100bn’ debate or,...
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Data Journalism Handbook: a review
As an aspiring data journalist, I was excited (and relieved) to flick through the new Data Journalism Handbook. The internet is awash with tutorials on visualising techniques and coding, but there’s a lack of...
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...
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...
How to do a good visualisation and why it’s important
Visualisations are an important tool when presenting data, and can be used to show patterns, correlations and the ‘big picture’. Ben Fry has said that visualisations ‘answer questions in a meaningful way that makes...
Why data should matter to local journalism
At City University, we have spent the past three weeks running a local news service for Islington. Along with door knocking and vox popping, data was an endless source of stories – from car...
Visualisation showing patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
Here I have created a visualisation showing patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 over the last six years. I took statistics from the mental health pages of the NHS website and downloaded...
Treemap for Comparisons showing Hospital Waiting Times
Visualising data is important because it makes complicated information easy to process and understand. Here I took some data from the Office for National Statistics website, www.ons.gov.uk. I chose to look at Hospital waiting...
