In writing last week’s Guardian Data Blog piece on How to be a data journalist I asked various people involved in data journalism where they would recommend starting. The answers are so useful that I thought I’d publish them in full here.
The Telegraph’s Conrad Quilty-Harper:
Start reading:
http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F06076274130681848419%2Fbundle%2Fdatavizfeeds
Keep adding to your knowledge and follow other data journalists/people who work with data on Twitter.
Look for sources of data:
ONS stats release calendar is a good start http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html Look at the Government data stores (Data.gov, Data.gov.uk, Data.london.gov.uk etc).
Check out What do they know, Freebase, Wikileaks, Manyeyes, Google Fusion charts. Continue reading