I’ve tweeted a couple of times recently about frustrations with BBC stories that are based on data but treat it poorly. As any journalist knows, two occasions of anything in close proximity warrants an overreaction about a “worrying trend”. So here it is. “One in four council homes fails ‘Decent Homes Standard’” This is a good piece of newsgathering, but a frustrating
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A disturbing discovery by Chris Taggart last week: a number of councils in the UK are handing over their ‘open’ data to a company which only allows it to be downloaded for “personal” use. As Chris himself points out, this runs completely against the spirit of the push to release public data in a number of ways: Data cannot be
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