This is a draft from a book chapter on data journalism (part 1 looks at finding data; part 2 at interrogating data; part 3 at visualisation, and 4 at visualisation tools). I’d really appreciate any additions or comments you can make – particularly around tips and tools. UPDATE: It has now been published in The Online Journalism Handbook. Mashing data Wikipedia defines a
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From 10am UK time today I will be reading Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Amazon US) – and reviewing it on Twitter as I go. And I won’t be alone. Joining me will be Antonio Gould, Dave Briggs, Jon Bounds, Paul Inman and Brendadada. All six twitterers – plus a Tweetscan search
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This year I started my online journalism module with three things: Twitter, Del.icio.us, and RSS readers. I asked students to: socially bookmark useful webpages, subscribe to useful feeds through their RSS reader, use social recommendation and tags to discover new sources – and to twitter the whole process. The results? Frankly, disappointing. If you think 19- and 20-year-olds are au
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