A useful video for data journalism students
A short post this time, but I just wanted to share a video that I have found particularly useful with you. It’s from the BBC’s College of Journalism website, and is a recording...
Videos
@pandaproject, a newsroom data app that provides a place to store, search and share data
KNIGHT FOUNDATION BLOG Brian Boyer, news applications editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes PANDA in a video by Jon Vidar. Earlier this month PANDA, which helps news organizations better use public information by creating...
Tool of the week for journalists – Playground, to monitor social media analytics
Tool of the week: Playground, by PeopleBrowsr. This post was first published on Journalism.co.uk What is it? A social analytics platform which contains over 1,000 days of tweets (all 70 billion of them), Facebook activity and blog...
99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement – animation
THE GUARDIAN’S DATABLOG – By Mariana Santos and Simon Rogers It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months – but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As...
Next Big Thing: New Tools for Digital Digging [VIDEO]
Nicola Hughes from ScraperWiki shared this video on Twitter recently and we thought it would be a shame not to share it with you too. Experts in data mining gathered at the Paley Center...
The Data Journalism Handbook: Teaching the World how to work with data [VIDEO]
This video is cross posted on DataDrivenJournalism.net, the Open Knowledge Foundation blog and on the Data Journalism Blog. The Data Journalism Handbook is a project coordinated by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge...
Hacks and hackers gather to write the first Data Journalism Handbook
By Federica Cocco This article is cross posted on DataDrivenJournalism.net, the Open Knowledge Foundation blog and on the Data Journalism Blog. Ravensbourne college is an ultramodern cubist design school which abuts the O2 arena...
A Case for Open Data in Transit [VIDEO]
STREET FILMS - by Elizabeth Press Ever find yourself waiting for the next bus, not knowing when it will arrive? Think it would be great if you could check a subway countdown clock from the...
The Marathon Route’s Evolving Neighborhoods
THE NEW YORK TIMES - By GRAHAM ROBERTS, ALAN McLEAN, ARCHIE TSE, LISA WAANANEN, TIMOTHY WALLACE, XAQUIN G.V., JOE BURGESS and JOE WARD The New York City Marathon course has changed little since it first...
SVT launch Guardian inspired data blog
DATAIST – By Jens Finnäs On Thursday the Swedish public broadcaster SVT launched a new exciting platform called SVT Pejl. It describes itself as a news blog producing journalism based on stats, facts and numbers. “Our...
